Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental Policymaking: Creating Partnerships Through Mediation (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory) - Softcover

Gamman, John K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791422089 ISBN 13: 9780791422083

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book examines why policies and laws intended to protect the environment often do not work. In particular, Gamman addresses the fundamental reasons why efforts to protect natural resources in the developing world generally fail. He describes why environmental initiatives originating in national governments, international foreign assistance agencies, and environmental groups suffer from a dysfunctional decision making process. And he suggests how to improve environmental policymaking by creating partnerships for sustainable development, showing how to do this with a step-by-step negotiation process.

About this title

About the Author

John K. Gamman is Principal of CONCUR, Collaborative for Environmental Analysis and Conflict Resolution, in Santa Cruz and Berkeley, California.

From the Back Cover

This book examines why policies and laws intended to protect the environment often do not work. In particular, Gamman addresses the fundamental reason why efforts to protect natural resources in the developing world generally fail. He describes why environmental initiatives originating in national governments, international foreign assistance agencies, and environmental groups suffer from a dysfunctional decision making process. And he suggests how to improve environmental policymaking by creating partnerships for sustainable development, showing how to do this with a step-by-step negotiation process.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791422089
• ISBN 13: 9780791422083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268