Public Administration Case Study: Synthesis and Conclusion
Today, public administrators at every level are confronted with multiple challenges, including the increasing polarization of the body politic as well as existential threats such as global warming due to relentless climate change. Although a consensus exists among the scientific community concerning the reality of climate change, there remains some debate over its precise causes and what can be done to mitigate these trends. Notwithstanding this debate, there is also a growing recognition that fossil fuel emissions are a major cause of climate change, making the need for increased public awareness a major public administration objective. To this end, the purpose of this paper is to review a relevant public administration case study in order to provide an explanation concerning how these challenges impact ethics, statesmanship and governance of public administrators. In addition, these challenges are examined using a biblical/covenantal model of statesmanship, leadership and organizational behavior. Finally, a
(2018) was to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation and administration of the community-based air pollution awareness course that was specifically designed to help primary school educators teach 122 fourth-grade students about the causes of air pollution and what steps can be taken at the local level to address them in...…highly congruent with a biblical/ covenantal approach to developing solutions to public administration challenges (Fischer & Schultz, 2016). In this regard, Numbers 35:33 (ESV) commands that, You shall not pollute the land in which you live.
Conclusion
The human generations that have populated the earth since the mid-19th century have bequeathed a sad environmental legacy to future generations. Indeed, many environmentalists caution that the tipping point may have already been reached and humankind is doomed. Against this gloomy backdrop, it is apparent that Americans must do everything possible, including educating young people about these issues, to reverse these trends to the maximum extent possible in order to delay and perhaps even reverse the existential threat of climate change for…
