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| Booher, David E.; Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University Sacramento; dbooher@berkeley.edu; Innes, Judith E.; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley; jinnes@berkeley.edu. |
| A study of California’s water planning and management process, known as CALFED, offers insights into governance strategies that can deal with adaptive management of environmental resources in ways that conventional bureaucratic procedures cannot. CALFED created an informal policy-making system, engaging multiple agencies and stakeholders. The research is built on data from 5 years of field work that included interviews with participants, review of documents, and observation of meetings. We argue that CALFED can be seen as a self-organizing complex adaptive network (CAN) in which interactions were generally guided by collaborative heuristics. The case demonstrates several innovative governance practices, including new practices and norms for... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative governance; Complex adaptive systems; Consensus building; Policy network; Resilient resource management; Water policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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| Buchecker, Matthias; Hunziker, Marcel. |
| The involvement of all relevant stakeholders into the elaboration process of shared goals is generally considered as a key factor for a successful regional development. However, no empirical research has been conducted to confirm this claim yet. In the last years, increasing efforts have been made to evaluate participatory processes, but the focus of that research was on the quality of the processes. This paper presents a recent study which had the objective to measure the effect of consensus building proces- ses, a particularly interactive form of participation, in a systematic and reliable way. To this end, a new evaluation method based on the methodology of intervention research of environmental psychology was developed and tested in a... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Participation; Consensus building; Evaluation; Effect; Case study; Intervention research; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44108 |
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| Beierle, Thomas C.. |
| This paper presents a framework for evaluating mechanisms that involve the public in environmental decision-making. These include traditional participatory mechanisms--such as public hearings, notice and comment procedures, and advisory committees--as well as those considered more innovative--such as regulatory negotiations, mediations, and citizen juries. The framework is based on a set of "social goals," defined as those goals which are valued outcomes of a participatory process, but which transcend the immediate interests of any party in that process. The goals are: educating the public, incorporating public values and knowledge into decision-making, building trust, reducing conflict, and assuring cost-effective decision-making. The paper begins with a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public participation; Alternative dispute resolution; Consensus building; Public hearing; Advisory committee; Regulatory negotiation; Mediation; Evaluation; Trust; Social capital; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10497 |
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| Beierle, Thomas C.. |
| The increased use of stakeholder processes in environmental decision-making has raised concerns that the inherently "political" nature of such processes may sacrifice substantive quality for political expediency. In particular, there is concern that good science will not be used adequately in stakeholder processes nor be reflected in their decision outcomes. This paper looks to the case study record to examine the quality of the outcomes of stakeholder efforts and the scientific and technical resources stakeholders use. The data for the analysis come from a "case survey," in which researchers coded information on over 100 attributes of 239 published case studies of stakeholder involvement in environmental decision-making. These cases reflect a diversity of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public participation; Stakeholder; Science; Alternative dispute resolution; Consensus building; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10686 |
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