Synopses & Reviews
Environmental conflicts are increasing in number and intensity, demanding new approaches to dispute resolution such as environmental mediation. This book contains the expertise of 28 specialists; stresses the need for mediated dispute resolution as an alternative to litigation; calls for a communitarian approach; explores conceptual foundations and conflicts resistant to mediation; and answers How do we know what we know? Addresses training mediators; discusses special problems of small communities, value of citizen participation, and EPA regulatory negotiation; explores ethics and social justice; and considers future challenges and issues confronting theory and practice. Case studies analyze nuclear waste siting, highway design, wilderness designation, field burning, and Environmental Impact Statement development. Intended for alternative dispute resolution practitioners, scholars, and citizen environmentalists.
Authors provide insights from many academic disciplines and practical experience. Reed advocates creating sustainable communities; O'Leary calls for new research; Maida contends that law and economics offer viable perspectives; and Allen prescribes mediation training. Dworkin and Jordan contribute a teaching case; Klase addresses problems in rural areas; and the Burgesses offer steps to make difficult confrontations constructive. Clary and Hornney argue that prenegotiation and negotiation are essential; Richardson describes facilitated negotiation; and Bogdonoff explains negotiated rule-making in Maine. Stephens, Stephens, and Dukes suggest that ethical considerations are due the environment; Blackford and Matunga advise sensitivity to cultural differences; Ryan demonstrates the utility of conflict management by the EPA. Wood and Guy describe how local governments can achieve consensus; and Baird, Maughan, and Nilson offer reasons mediation failed in Idaho. Mangerich and Luton describe an urban-rural conflict in Washington state, and Blackburn provides his Eclectic Theory to guide future research.
Synopsis
Fresh examination of environmental mediation by 28 experts from diverse perspectives; stresses need for mediated dispute resolution as alternative to litigation; calls for communitarian approach; explores conceptual foundations and conflicts resistant to mediation; and answers "How do we know what we know?" Addresses communities, value of citizen participation, and EPA regulatory negotiation; explores ethics and social justice; and considers future challenges and issues confronting theory and practice. Case studies analyze nuclear waste siting, highway design, wilderness designation, field burning, and Environmental Impact Statement development. Intended for alternative dispute resolution practitioners, scholars, students, and citizen environmentalists.
Synopsis
Twenty-eight experts discuss environmental dispute resolution successes, failures, theory, mediator training, justice. Examples include nuclear waste, highway design, wilderness designation, and field burning.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
About the Author
J. WALTON BLACKBURN is an independent consultant in participative strategic planning. He teaches Political Science at the University of Nebraska and has over 15 years of experience in community, regional, and university planning.WILLA MARIE BRUCE is a Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she teaches Administrative Ethics, Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Development. She is on the editorial boards of Public Administrative Review and Public Voices, and is listed in Who's Who of American Women, 1992 and 1993. She has published in numerous professional journals, and has published three previous books with Quorum: Problem Employee Management (1990)
Table of Contents
Introduction by J. Walton Blackburn and Willa Marie Bruce
Mediation and the New Environmental Agenda by Christine M. Reed
Environmental Mediation: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? by Rosemary O'Leary
Mediating Environmental Disputes: Borrowing Some Ideas from a Law and Economics Perspective by Peter R. Maida
Training Environmental Mediators: A Community-Based Approach by John C. Allen
Midwest Energy Utilities by James B. Dworkin and G. Logan Jordan
The Problems of Designing Environmental Mediation for Small Communities by Kenneth A. Klase
Beyond the Limits: Dispute Resolution of Intractable Environmental Conflicts by Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
Evaluating ADR as an Approach to Citizen Participation in Siting a Low Level Nuclear Waste Facility by Bruce B. Clary and Regan Hornney
Negotiating Community Consensus in Preparing Environmental Impact Statements by James R. Richardson
Consensus Building to Write Environmentally Responsive Rules for Maine's New Transportation Policy by Sondra Bogdonoff
The Ethics of Environmental Mediation by William O. Stephens, John B. Stephens, and Frank Dukes
Assuring Justice in Cross-Cultural Environmental Mediation by Carolyn Blackford and Hirini Matunga
Regulatory Negotiation: Learning from Experiences at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by Clare M. Ryan
Environmental Mediation: Keys to Success at the Local Government Level by J. Lynn Wood and Mary E. Guy
Mediating the Idaho Wilderness Controversy by Dennis Baird, Ralph Maughan, and Douglas Nilson
The Inland Northwest Field Burning Summit: The Case Study by Mollie K. Mangerich and Larry S. Luton
Environmental Mediation Theory and Practice: Challenges, Issues, and Needed Research and Theory Development by J. Walton Blackburn
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