Collaborative Environmental Management

by Koontz, Tomas M.; Steelman, Toddi A.; Carmin, Joann; Korfmacher, Katrina Smith; Moseley, Cassandra; Thomas, Craig W.

• ISBN13: 9781891853807
• ISBN10: 1891853805
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• 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

Cassandra Moseley is director of the Ecosystem Workforce program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and courtesy assistant professor of planning, public policy and management at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
About the Authors	xiii
Governmental Roles in Collaborative Environmental Management	1	(34)
Part I: Government as Follower
Citizen-Initiated Collaboration: The Applegate Partnership	35	(14)
Nonprofit Facilitation: The Darby Partnership	49	(16)
Part II: Government as Encourager
Encouragement through ``Carrots'' and ``Sticks'': Habitat Conservation Planning and the Endangered Species Act	65	(16)
Encouragement through Grants: Ohio's Farmland Preservation Task Forces	81	(22)
Part III: Government as Leader
Science-Based Collaborative Management: The Albemarle--Pamlico Estuarine Study	103	(23)
Government-Led Community Collaboration: The Animas River Stakeholder Group	126	(21)
Part IV: Reconsidering Governmental Roles
Government as Actor and as Institution	147	(27)
Envisioning the Roles of Government	174	(11)
Methodological Appendix	185	(4)
Notes	189	(4)
References	193	(12)
Index	205