Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Case for Grassroots CollaborationCondition: NewSubtitle: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local LevelISBN-10: 073917696XEAN: 9780739176962ISBN: 9780739176962Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/26/2013Description: The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage problems that are generally too complex, too expensive,, and too politically divisive for one agency to manage or resolve on its own. Governments have organized multi-sector collaborations as a way to achieve better results for the past two decades. We know much about why collaboration occurs. We know a good deal about how collaborative processes work. Collaborations organized, led, and managed by grassroots organizations are rarer, though becoming more common. We do not as yet have a clear understanding of how they might differ from government led collaborations.Hampton Roads, Virginia, located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, offers an unusual opportunity to study and draw comparative lessons from three grassroots environmental collaborations to restore three rivers in the watershed, in terms of how they build, organize and distribute social capital, deepen democratic values, and succeed in meeting ecosystem restoration goals and benchmarks. This is relevant for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed, but is also relevant for understanding grassroots collaborative options for managing, protecting, and restoring watersheds throughout the U.S. It may also provide useful information for developing grassroots collaborations in other policy sectors.The premise underlying this work is that to continue making progress toward achieving substantive environmental outcomes in a world where the problems are complex, expensive, and politically divisive, more non-state stakeholders must be actively involved in defining the problems and developing solutions. This will require more multi-sector collaborations of the type that governments have increasingly relied on for the past two decades. Our approach examines one subset of environmental collaboration, those driven and managed by grassroots organizations that were established to address specific environmental problems and provide implementable solutions to those problems, so that we may draw lessons that inform other grassroots collaborative efforts.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 237mmItem Length: 159mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 562gAuthor: William Marshall Leavitt, John C. Morris, Shana Campbell Jones, William Allen GibsonGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Case for Grassroots Collaboration
Title: The Case for Grassroots Collaboration
Subtitle: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level
ISBN-10: 073917696X
EAN: 9780739176962
ISBN: 9780739176962
Release Date: 09/26/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Publication Name: Case for Grassroots Collaboration : Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Regional, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Author: William Allen Gibson, Shana Campbell Jones, William Marshall Leavitt, John C. Morris
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Science
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
