Responding to a Forest Catastrophe: The Emergence of New Governance Arrangements in Southern California

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Political indicators</td><td align="left">MAST</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Quantity and diversity of actors with some degree of power or influence over decision/output</td><td align="left">Rather than a top-down, hierarchy, MAST enabled all interested parties to contribute to decision making in collaborative fashion.</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Actual formal decision-making power/actual not formal ability to influence decisions and outcomes</td><td align="left">MAST partners collectively informally influenced decisions that led to interagency actions by participating groups and entities. </td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 5: Responding to a Forest Catastrophe: The Emergence of New Governance Arrangements in Southern California 