Public Involvement and Dispute Resolution - Volume 2 - A Reader on the Second Decade of Experience at the Institute for Water Resources
Abstract
This reader, together with its companion volume, Public Involvement Techniques: A Reader of Ten Years Experience at the Institute for Water Resources (IWR Research Report 82-R-1), documents the evolution, over a period of twenty years, of new processes by which governmental agencies reach decisions and resolve conflicts. The two readers focus primarily on the experience of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but are not intended to be just a compendium of case studies. Instead, they portray one agency wrestling with trends, demands, and pressures faced by all agencies with responsibilities related to natural resources in virtually the entire industrialized world. These readers are a communication from the Corps to other organizations: "This is what we've learned. This is what worked for us. Here are the tools we found helpful." Much of the material in this reader is drawn from materials developed in the late 1980s to early 1990s for the Corps Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program, just as material in the first reader was drawn from the public involvement program in the 1970s and early 1980s. This reader, however, also provides information on how the public involvement program has changed since the 1970s, and how its concepts are being used in new circumstances within the Corps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA358813
Entities
People
- C. M. Dunning
- Donna B. Ayres
- Jerome D. Priscoli
- Jim L. Creighton
Organizations
- United States Army Corps of Engineers