Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach
Environmental and natural resource policy decision making is changing. Increasingly citizens and management agency personnel are seeking ways to "do things differently"; to participate ...
Recommended Reading List
GENERAL Frost, Joyce, and William Wilmot, Interpersonal Conflict. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1978. Schellenburg, James A., The Science of Conflict. New York: Oxford University Pre ...
Mediation, Citizen Empowerment, and Transformational Politics
This provocative book develops empowerment theory in the context of community mediation. Schwerin uses a case study of a large urban community mediation program to explore the empowerme ...
Managing Conflict: A Guide for Watershed Partnerships
Part of EPA's "Watershed Information Network", this reference is a quick guide to dealing with conflict in watershed partnerships. ...
Handling Scientific and Technical Information in Contentious Public Issues: Tools and Techniques
This booklet is designed to aid Extension educators who work on contentious public issues. It focuses on one very important component of public issues education – those situations where ...
Discovering Common Ground: Missouri Communities Deliberate
Through face-to-face meetings, people learn more about each other's view point and discover they have things in common – “common ground”. They weigh the pros and cons, trade-offs and co ...
Democracy in Practice : Public Participation in Environmental Decisions
In spite of the expanding role of public participation in environmental decisionmaking, there has been little systematic examination of whether it has, to date, contributed toward bette ...
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citize ...
Catalytic Leadership: Strategies for an Interconnected World
Jeff Luke's book is simply outstanding and a must read for those public leaders interested in advancing the common good. JEFFREY S. LUKE is director of the Pacific Program for State and ...
An EPA/USDA Partnership to Support Community-Based Education
Managing the environment requires a local investment. Local activities affect the quality of the local environment. People have a common interest in protecting and improving their commu ...