The Practitioner's Guide to Environmental Dispute Resolution - Softcover

Caplan, James A.

9780982753750: The Practitioner's Guide to Environmental Dispute Resolution

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ISBN 10: 0982753756 ISBN 13: 9780982753750

Publisher: Environmental Dispute Resolution USA LLC, 2012

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I developed this Practitioner’s Guide for people like you who have chosen to make a difference in your community, business, or public agency—people with the courage and commitment to engage in tough, controversial, often thankless, environmental dispute resolution (EDR) work. Many well-intentioned people start work only to find EDR more complicated and difficult then they imagined. And they may quickly realize that, to continue, they need resources that they don’t have. When the values people hold toward the environment get folded in with complex multi-scale social, cultural, and ecosystem elements, the resulting disputes can be significantly more challenging than we experience in the workplace or at home. If we bring nature into conditions of human conflict, the stakes seem to go up for many reasons. These reasons include participant perceptions that they share resources at risk, that they see the potential for resource losses affecting the many while only a few gain, and that society may lack sufficient information about choices and their effects to make good decisions without harming the environment. This Guide will help EDR practitioners at all levels of expertise and experience address those challenges, and many others, more successfully. In addition, EDR practitioners can face tremendous professional and personal challenges in conducting successful EDR efforts. Practitioner burn-out is common, particularly in difficult, high-stakes situations. So I want to support practitioners in ways that will allow them to work through a successful EDR effort in the least time and with the least stress. And finally, experience shows that EDR success can come at significant social and professional cost to practitioners. People dedicated to perpetuating disputes--advocates from the so-called “conflict industry”--and people wedded to the status quo, no matter how unproductive and difficult their situation, may resist effective EDR programs by attacking EDR leaders and practitioners. This Guide addresses means and methods for working with these pressures generally and with the conflict industry more specifically. So, I believe this Guide can help all committed people who forge ahead, even against great resistance, by helping them move through an EDR effort as efficiently and effectively as possible. To this end, I filled the Guide with information, insights, tips, and examples that should make your EDR practice more effective in most situations, and, ultimately, easier and more satisfying. This book can be read and used alone. However, this Guide would be used best in conjunction with my two other books, The Theory and Principles of Environmental Dispute Resolution (2010) and The Practice of Environmental Dispute Resolution (2010). Both of these books are available in electronic and hardcopy versions. Hardcopy is available through Amazon.com. Electronic versions are available by emailing me at my website, www.environdispute.com.

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