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Making Collaboration Work: Lessons From Innovation In Natural Resource Management
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Making Collaboration Work: Lessons From Innovation In Natural Resource Management

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Across the United States, diverse groups are turning away from confrontation and toward collaboration in an attempt to tackle some of our nation's mintractable environmental problems. Governmagencies, community groups, businesses, and private individuals have begun working together to solve common problems, resolve conflicts, and develop forward-thinking strategies for moving in a more sustainable direction.Making Collaboration Work examines those promising efforts. With a decade of research behind them, the authors offer an invaluable set of lessons on the role of collaboration in natural resource managemand how to make it work. The book: explains why collaboration is an essential componof resource managemdescribes barriers that must be understood and overcome presents eight themes that characterize successful efforts details the specific ways that groups can use those themes to achieve success provides advice on how to ensure accountability Drawing on lessons from nearly two hundred cases from around the country, the authors describe the experience in practical terms and offer specific advice for agencies and individuals interested in pursuing a collaborative approach. The images of success offered can provide ideas to those mired in traditional managemstyles and empower those seeking new approaches. While many of the examples involve natural resource professionals, the lessons hold true in a variety of public policy settings including public health, social services, and environmental protection, among others.Making Collaboration Work will be an invaluable source of ideas and inspiration for policy makers, managers and staff of governmagencies and nongovernmental organizations, and community groups searching for more productive modes of interaction.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherIsland Press
Release dateJun 22, 2012
ISBN9781597262002
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