Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government?

ISBN-13: 9781891853821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 210 str.

Tomas M. Koontz; Toddi A. Steelman; Joann Carmin

Opis

Collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts, and government officials at all levels have been experimenting with collaboration in a wide variety of contexts. Yet questions remain about the best way to ensure that government involvement supports collaboration rather than introduces barriers. The goal of this thoughtful work is to analyze data from a variety of cases to explain how the different roles government plays in collaborative environmental management lead to different processes and outcomes. Looking at examples where government has acted to lead, encourage, or follow in the process of collaboration, the authors apply their new theoretical framework to cases involving the management of watersheds, rivers, animal habitats, and forests.