Product Description

One of the most important challenges facing civilization is how its natural resources will be used and protected. Too often polarization and litigation cause results with which no one is truly satisfied. Enemies are made, lines are drawn and both people and the environment are degraded.Resolving Environmental Conflict explains the transformative approach toward facilitation. It shows how to help parties empower themselves to define the issues and decide the settlement on their own terms and on their own time through better understanding of one another's perspectives.The transformative approach allows a conflict's outcome to be decided solely by the participants even though resolution may not take place for some months after facilitation is complete. Inherent in the solution is a shared vision for the community without which sustainability is not possible.Beyond shared vision, this book examines notions of development, sustainability, and community and the synergism of ecology, culture and economic needs that promote a healthy environment enriching the lives of all its inhabitants.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1113825 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
Here is an explanation of the transformative approach toward facilitation, showing how to help parties empower themselves to define issues and reach settlements on their own terms, within their own time limits, through better understanding of divergent perspectives. The approach allows for conflict outcome to be decided solely by the participants with a shared vision for the community without which sustainability is not possible. Key features include an examination of notions of development, complete coverage of sustainability, discussion of community concepts, and promoting a healthy environment, enriching the lives of all inhabitants. -- From the Publisher

Maser's experience has proven that the facilitation process works best at the local level.
-FORUM For Applied Research and Public Policy

Masers experience has proven that the facilitation process works best at the local level.
-FORUM For Applied Research and Public Policy

This book is very readable and also offers additional valuable references for facilitators as well as those immersed in environmental conflicts.
-Environmental Network News, January/February 1996