Resolving Environmental Conflict Towards Sustainable Community Development (Social Environmental Sustainability) - Softcover

Maser, Chris; Pollio, Carol A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574440071 ISBN 13: 9781574440072

Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

One of the most important challenges facing civilization is how its natural resources will be used and protected. Too often polarization and litigation cause results with which no one is truly satisfied. Enemies are made, lines are drawn and both people and the environment are degraded.
Resolving Environmental Conflict explains the transformative approach toward facilitation. It shows how to help parties empower themselves to define the issues and decide the settlement on their own terms and on their own time through better understanding of one another's perspectives.
The transformative approach allows a conflict's outcome to be decided solely by the participants even though resolution may not take place for some months after facilitation is complete. Inherent in the solution is a shared vision for the community without which sustainability is not possible.
Beyond shared vision, this book examines notions of development, sustainability, and community and the synergism of ecology, culture and economic needs that promote a healthy environment enriching the lives of all its inhabitants.

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Review:

This book is very readable and also offers additional valuable references for facilitators as well as those immersed in environmental conflicts.
-Environmental Network News, January/February 1996

Maser's experience has proven that the facilitation process works best at the local level.
-FORUM For Applied Research and Public Policy

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1574440071
• ISBN 13: 9781574440072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224