Consensus building and other forms of collaborative planning are increasingly used for
dealing with social and political fragmentation, shared power, and conflicting values. The …

Despite America's pluralistic, fragmented, and generally adversarial political culture,
participants in pollution control politics have begun to collaborate to reduce the high costs of …

Based on a survey of participants in eight negotiated rule makings at the Environmental
Protection Agency and in six comparable conventional EPA rule makings, we find that, when …

Dispute resolution seeks to find satisfactory solutions to conflicts, and researchers who
evaluate dispute resolution procedures understandably want to consider whether disputants …

Sage Reference - The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to
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Mediation, facilitation, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques are being
used in federal agencies, state and local governments, private‐sector organizations, and …

Conflict, agitation, and delay have long defined policy making in the environmental arena.
Yet in recent years, collaboration has been utilized in a limited number of cases in an …

Rulemaking agencies commonly delegate the implementation and enforcement of rules to
affected parties, but they rarely delegate rulemaking authority. Regulatory negotiation is an …

Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define
success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. The authors elucidate the full …

This study assesses the extent to which state governments have adopted environmental
dispute resolution (EDR) techniques, processes, and programs. Funded by the Hewlett …