Finding Common Ground

Governance and Natural Resources in the American West

by: Ronald D. Brunner - Christine H. Colburn - Christina M. Cromley - Roberta A. Klein - Elizabeth A. Olson

Finding Common Ground
Author: Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. Colburn, Christina M. Cromley, Roberta A. Klein, Elizabeth A. Olson

Publisher: Yale University Press

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Publication date: 01 October 2002

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ISBN: 0300091443 ISBN 13: 9780300091441

Finding Common Ground by Ronald D. Brunner - Christine H. Colburn - Christina M. Cromley - Roberta A. Klein - Elizabeth A. Olson

A discussion of natural resources policy issues in the American West. It diagnoses problems of governance in policy, then introduces community-based initiatives as responses to those problems. It then goes on to examine the range of successes and failures of initiatives using specific cases. Top page

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Over the past century, solutions to natural resources policy issues have become increasingly complex. Multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and differing mandates as well as multiple interest groups have contributed to gridlock, frequently preventing solutions in the common interest. Community-based responses to natural resource problems in the American West have demonstrated the potential of local initiatives both for finding common ground on divisive issues and for advancing the common interest. The first chapter of this study diagnoses contemporary problems of governance in natural resources policy and in the United States generally, then introduces community-based initiatives as responses to those problems. The next chapters examine the range of successes and failures of initiatives in water management in the Upper Clark Fork River in Montana; wolf recovery in the northern Rockies; bison management in greater Yellowstone; and forest policy in northern California. The concluding chapter considers how to harvest experience from these and other cases, offering practical suggestions for diverse participants in community-based initiatives and their supporters, agencies and interest groups, and researchers and educators. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Yale University Press

City: New Haven

Pages: 256

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm weight 590 gr thickness 27 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 363.70560978 Library of Congress Subject: Natural resources

Departments: Management of land & natural resources; Central government policies; Local government policies;

Record updated at: 05 April, 2013 time: 03:53


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