Crossing boundaries for collaboration : conservation and development projects in the Amazon / Stephen G. Perz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perz, Stephen George, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action research--Social aspects.

Action research.

Cooperation--Social aspects.

Cooperation.

Interdisciplinary research.

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Interorganizational relations.

International cooperation.

Participatory monitoring and evaluation (Project management)--Amazon River Region--Case studies.

Participatory monitoring and evaluation (Project management).

Natural resources--Co-management--Amazon River Region--Case studies.

Natural resources.

Natural resources--Co-management.

Social aspects.

Amazon River Region.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 293 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Many societal challenges defy simple solutions by a single academic discipline, type of organization, or country. These "wicked problems" require collaboration across social, political, or geographic boundaries. While this is an increasingly necessary way forward for issues such as education and international trade collaboration poses its own challenges, and so too does crossing boundaries. Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration brings together multiple bodies of work collaboration across different kinds of boundaries, highlighting the promise of "collaborative advantage" while featuring detailed discussions of the challenges involved. To illustrate the joys and travails of collaboration across boundaries, this book takes up the case of conservation and development in the Amazon. Well-known for its biological resources, the basin is changing rapidly, and Amazonian societies increasingly demand inclusive approaches to conservation and development. This book draws on firsthand experiences from direct participation in several complicated conservation and development projects that spanned disciplinary, organizational, and national boundaries. This book focuses on issues of particular salience when collaborating across boundaries: politics and inequality, uncertainty and surprise and collaboration and the self. It also underscores the strategic importance of investing in collaborative practice and the experience of crossing boundaries, even if an initial effort fails. In light of growing need to address complex problems, this book provides a clarion call to collaborate across boundaries, recognizing the difficulties in order to achieve the advantages. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The official story: examples from the Amazon

The challenges of collaboration

Crossing boundaries for collaboration

The analytics of crossing boundaries

Inequalities and politics in collaboration across boundaries

Uncertainty and surprises when crossing boundaries

Crossing boundaries and the self

Conclusion: seasons of collaboration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Perz, Stephen George, 1969- author. Crossing boundaries for collaboration

ISBN:

9781498535663

1498535666

OCLC:

951506602