Collaborative Environental Management

by Koontz, Tomas M.; Carmin, Joann; Steelman, Toddi A.; Thomas, Craig W.

• ISBN13: 9781891853821
• ISBN10: 1891853821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Whether the stakeholders include public, nonprofit, or exclusively private participants, collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, industry, and individuals within their own institutions, 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 will be constructive -- that is will support collaboration, rather than introduce 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, they apply their new theoretical framework to cases involving the management of watersheds, rivers, and estuaries to farmland, animal habitats, and forests. Finding that there is no "best" role for government; the authors are nonetheless able make important observations about when and where collaborative environmental management is likely to be effective..

Author Biography

Craig W. Thomas is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he is also on the faculty of the Center for Public Policy and Administration.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Authors	p. xiii
Governmental Roles in Collaborative Environmental Management	p. 1
Government as Follower
Citizen-Initiated Collaboration: The Applegate Partnership	p. 35
Nonprofit Facilitation: The Darby Partnership	p. 49
Government as Encourager
Encouragement through "Carrots" and "Sticks": Habitat Conservation Planning and the Endangered Species Act	p. 65
Encouragement through Grants: Ohio's Farmland Preservation Task Forces	p. 81
Government as Leader
Science-Based Collaborative Management: The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study	p. 103
Government-Led Community Collaboration: The Animas River Stakeholder Group	p. 126
Reconsidering Governmental Roles
Government as Actor and as Institution	p. 147
Envisioning the Roles of Government	p. 174
Methodological Appendix	p. 185
Notes	p. 189
References	p. 193
Index	p. 205
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