Case Study: The Chesapeake Bay Program

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Through the years, residents and visitors alike have found the Chesapeake imposing yet hospitable. The Chesapeake is one of this country's most valuable natural treasures. Even after centuries of intensive use, the Bay remains a highly productive natural resource. It supplies millions of pounds of seafood, functions as a major hub for shipping and commerce, provides natural habitat for wildlife and offers a variety of recreational opportunities for residents and visitors, but Prevention is necessary to control many problems in the Chesapeake Bay. Prevention can range from something as big as a government issue or as small as a single person helping out. The greatest chance at total protection for water quality is when many people and organizations…show more content…
The Program states that this style is an “ongoing, science-based process through which the Chesapeake Bay Program plans, implements, and evaluates its restoration efforts” (Chesapeake Bay Program). The process of the Bay Program’s adaptive management begins with the individual goal teams. The goal teams develop an adaptive management plan, then the plan moves up through the Program’s organizational structure, where the plan can be integrated and coordinated throughout the partnership (Chesapeake Bay Program). This can be seen as a form of strategic management, where “ the overall strategy chosen is in essence the package of actions selected after analyzing alternatives, assessing the outside environment, and determining the internal capabilities of an organization to achieve specific future objectives through the integrations of organizational effort” (Shafritz, 2011). Because the Chesapeake Bay Program works with a body of water and an environment that is always changing, their action efforts need to adapt to its overall goal, which is why they have implemented this adaptive management style. As in a strategic management style, the Chesapeake Bay Programs mission or what to do and vision of what to get done has not changed, but their goals, objectives, and measures are adaptive to fit the overall programs needs. As mentioned in Jay Shafritz book Introducing Public Administration, public administration…show more content…
Funding for the Program comes from different federal agencies, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and private interests. Many of the actions the federal agencies are supporting in the restoration effort, as well as the resources planned for those actions, must be described in an annual action plan/progress report that was required by President Barack Obama in his Chesapeake Bay Executive Order 13508 (Chesapeake Program). The Federal Leadership Committee for the Chesapeake Bay (composed of representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Interior and Transportation) issues the Chesapeake Bay Action Plan (Chesapeake Program). This Action Plan covers fiscal year for that given year. In 2011, $491 million in federal funds was given to the Chesapeake Bay Program (Chesapeake Bay Program). All of these funds were provided by federal agencies, such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior, Department of Defense, and the Department of Commerce (Federal Leadership Committee for the Chesapeake
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