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

Table 1

A three-level approach to policy logic.

System level	Political actors	Policy-relevant aspects	Policy focus
Micro: human agency/behavioral	Individuals representing agencies	Behavior/choice	MAST, collaborative dynamics/measures of program success
Meso: governance considerations	Government—civil society	Governance: state—societal relations	Institutional arrangements, policy network, instrument choice
Macro: systemic	Environment; (landscape level problems)	Resources/constraints/; feedback	Problem definition