A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team included Donald Appleyard, Marc Draisen, David Godschalk, Chester Hartman, Janice Perlman, Hans Spiegel, John Zeisel, and ourselves. This book is a product of our joint efforts. Our studies are aimed at summarizing and sharing what can be learned from recent European efforts to enhance the effectiveness of local government through increased public involvement in the organization and management of public services and urban redevelopment. Almost a year...
A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team include...
Lawerence Susskind Lawrence Susskind Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
Drawing on his experience in the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, a leading mediator and his co-author provide the first jargon-free guide to consensual strategies for resolving public disputes--indispensable to citizen activists and to business and government leaders.
Drawing on his experience in the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, a leading mediator and his co-author provide the first jargon-free guide to cons...
This practical guide for group decision-making is designed for people and organizations wishing to operate on a consensus basis. The handbook: stresses the advantages of informal, common sense approaches to working together; describes how any group can put these approaches into practice; and relates numerous examples of situations in which such approaches have been applied. Part One focuses on establishing the ground rules for making decisions and running an organization on a consensual basis. Part Two consists of 17 chapters which describe the various phases, facets and forms of consensus...
This practical guide for group decision-making is designed for people and organizations wishing to operate on a consensus basis. The handbook: stresse...
Record numbers of Americans fear that our political process is broken--for good reason. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges, yet our politicians spend most of their energy attacking one another. All the while, no one in public life has offered a practical way to neutralize the bitter partisanship that paralyzes Washington.The Cure for Our Broken Political Process fills that void. The authors show exactly how concerned citizens can get politicians from all camps to negotiate genuine solutions to the most vexing issues. Sol Erdman and Lawrence Susskind base their case on their...
Record numbers of Americans fear that our political process is broken--for good reason. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges, yet our politicians...
Some portion of the American public will react negatively to almost any new corporate initiative, as Disney discovered when it announced its plans to build an historical theme park in Virginia. Similarly, government efforts to change policy or shift budget priorities are invariably met with stiff resistance. In this enormously practical book, Lawrence Susskind and Patrick Field analyze scores of both private and public-sector cases, as well as crisis scenarios such as the Alaskan oil spill, the silicone breast implant controversy, and nuclear plant malfunction at Three Mile Island. They show...
Some portion of the American public will react negatively to almost any new corporate initiative, as Disney discovered when it announced its plans to ...
A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team included Donald Appleyard, Marc Draisen, David Godschalk, Chester Hartman, Janice Perlman, Hans Spiegel, John Zeisel, and ourselves. This book is a product of our joint efforts. Our studies are aimed at summarizing and sharing what can be learned from recent European efforts to enhance the effectiveness of local government through increased public involvement in the organization and management of public services and urban redevelopment. Almost a year...
A research team from the United States has completed an examination of citizen participation experiments in seven European countries. The team include...
This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the US Government's National Estuarine Research Reserve System, four New England coastal towns, and the Consensus Building Institute. The first half of the book offers a series of chapters that explain how and why climate adaptation requires collective rather than individual risk management. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks including sea level rise, storm intensification,...
This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the M...
This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the US Government's National Estuarine Research Reserve System, four New England coastal towns, and the Consensus Building Institute. The first half of the book offers a series of chapters that explain how and why climate adaptation requires collective rather than individual risk management. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks including sea level rise, storm intensification,...
This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the M...
Discussions on climate change generally focus on the necessity of reducing carbon emissions, while recognizing that such action will take a long time to materialize. Lawrence Susskind contends that communities can take action to combat climate change now, through steps that have the benefit of moderating the effects of flooding, heat waves, and drought-events already occurring with increasing frequency.
Discussions on climate change generally focus on the necessity of reducing carbon emissions, while recognizing that such action will take a long time ...
