Policy Chasms: How We Govern Plants and Animals, and How We Don't

Policy Chasms: How We Govern Plants and Animals, and How We Don't

This October, Farmingdale State College's new Public Administration and Policy program and the Center for Criminal Justice are co-sponsoring a talk: "Policy Chasms: How We Govern Plants and Animals, and How We Don't." The premise is: American environmental governance is full of structural gaps. No single agency, level of government, or national policy is responsible for managing invasive species or enforcing wildlife crime — authority is scattered across federal, state, and local lines, and much of the work falls to a patchwork of institutions built to fill the spaces in between. Dr. Michael Motta, of the Public Administration and Policy program, will open with brief framing remarks on how U.S. policy design produces these chasms, and how partnerships like LIISMA exist to work across jurisdictional lines and fill in the gaps. Dr. Monique Sosnowski, a wildlife crime researcher in the Center for Criminal Justice, will discuss her work building datasets that track wildlife crime and federal wildlife prosecutions. Abby Marino, the LIISMA Program Manager, who also serves on the North American Invasive Species Management Association board of directors, will discuss invasive species on Long Island.