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Strategies for Engaging Scientists in Collaborative Processes
Scientists are often reluctant to get involved in collaborative efforts to address natural resource issues because of potential professional repercussions. As agents for change, Extensi ...
Making Watershed Partnerhsips Work: A Review of the Empirical Literature
ABSTRACT: Two main goals are achieved in this review of the empirical literature on factors affecting conflict resolution in watershed partnerships. The first is an assessment of two pu ...
Making Collaborative Watershed Management Work: The Confluence of State and Regional Initiatives
Environmental Management, 27(1): 27-35; 2001 Recommended Audience: Regional extension staff, partnering agencies and organizations having responsibilities for assisting local watershed ...
Linking Public Agencies With Community-Based Watershed Organizations: Lessons From California
Policy Studies Journal, 27(3): 544-564; 1999 Recommended Audience: Community-based watershed organization leaders and those who provide assistance to them, government agency policymaker ...
Innovations in Public Participation and Environmental Decision Making: Examples from the Great Lakes Region
Society and Natural Resources, 14: 815-826; 2001 Recommended Audience: Public policy officials, land use planners, watershed managers, natural resources professionals. Principal Topic: ...
Evaluating Collaborative Planning – Implications from an Empirical Analysis of Growth Management
Journal of American Planning Association, 68(2): 179-193; 2002 Principal Topic: Collaborative planning approach to regional growth issues. Recommended Audience: Land use planners, gover ...
Citizen Participation and Government Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
Policy Studies Journal, 30(2): 193-207; 2002 Recommended Audience: Civic officials, public administrators, land use planners, public policy professionals. Principal Topic: Assessment of ...
Bioregional Conflict Resolution: Rebuilding Community in Watershed Planning and Organizing
Environmental Management, 24(1): 1-12; 1999 Recommended Audience: Local watershed organizers, extension staff and partnering agencies. Principal Topic: The politics of collaboration at ...
Barriers to Community Participation in Development Planning: Lessons from the Mutengene (Cameroon) Self-Help Water Project
Community Development Journal, 37(3): 233-248; 2002 Recommended Audience: Technical consultants, agency planners, public sector watershed managers, and specialists/educators responsible ...
An Evaluation of Three Democratic, Community-Based Approaches to Citizen Participation: Surveys, Conversations With Community Groups, and Community Dinners
Society and National Resources, 14: 107-126; 2001 Recommended Audience: Evaluators of public participation and community involvement in watershed management. Also for technical assistan ...
Adaptive Participation In Watershed Management
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 55(3): 248-256; 2000 Recommended Audience: Technical consultants, educators, and specialists. Principal Topic: Getting participation right and ge ...
A Framework for Understanding and Improving Environmental Decision-Making
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 43(2), 163–183, 2000 This paper presents a framework for understanding and improving public sector environmental decision making. Withi ...
Technical Assistance for Citizen Participation: A Case Study of New York City’s Environmental Planning Process
American Review of Public Administration, 25(2): 119-135; 1995 Recommended Audience: Public administrators, government officials, technical consultants. Principal Topic: Providing techn ...
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