Swimming upstream : collaborative approaches to watershed management / edited by Paul A. Sabatier [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabatier, Paul A.

Series:

American and comparative environmental policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watershed management--United States--Decision making.

Watershed management.

Watershed management--United States--Citizen participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.

Summary:

In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers.Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.

Contents:

Collaborative approaches to watershed management / Paul A. Sabatier [and others]

Eras of water management in the United States : implications for collaborative watershed approaches / Paul A. Sabatier, Chris Weible, and Jared Fickler

Legitimacy and watershed collaborations : the role of public participation / Zev Trachtenberg and Will Focht

A trust-based guide to stakeholder participation / Will Focht and Zev Trachtenberg

CItizen participation and representation in collaborative engagement processes / Charles D. Samuelson [and others]

Theoretical frameworks explaining partnership success / Paul A. Sabatier [and others]

Do watershed partnerships enhance beliefs conducive to collective action? / Mark Lubell

Are trust and social capital the keys to success? Watershed partnerships in California and Washington / William D. Leach and Paul A. Sabatier

Conclusions and recommendations / Mark Lubell [and others].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-28278-X

OCLC:

827947282