The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance

Edited by Richard D. Margerum, Professor, University of Oregon, US and Cathy J. Robinson, Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and University Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Australia

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance
Richard D. Margerum and Cathy J Robinson

PART I Theory and Context
2. Theoretical perspectives on the Challenges of Collaboration
Richard D. Margerum

3. Back to the Future? Collaborative Environmental Governance Theory and Practice
Tomas M. Koontz

4. The Other Side of Managing in Networks
Robert Agranoff

5. Vitality in interactive governance: conditions and challenges
Jurian Edelenbos and Ingmar van Meerkerk

PART II Problems and Context
6. Where has all the salinity gone? The challenges of using science to inform local collaborative efforts to respond to large-scale environmental change
Mat Gilfedder, Cathy J Robinson and Mike Grundy

7. Collaborative governance – does it work for climate change adaptation? Insights from the Dutch Delta Program
Arwin van Buuren and Jitske van Popering

8. Collaboration challenges in addressing natural resource management problems: Australian regional case studies
Helen Ross, Jennifer Bellamy and Brian Head

PART III Policy, Politics and Power
9. When Voluntary is Prescribed but Mandated is Necessary: The Challenges of Compulsory Collaboration on Complex Public Issues
Julia M. Wondolleck and Susan D. Lurie

10. Politicians and Collaborative Governance: The New Logic of Support
Edward P. Weber

11. The Role of Power in Collaborative Governance
Jill M. Purdy

PART IV Organizations, Stakeholders and Governance
12. Collaboration Across Boundaries in the Indian Forest Service
Daniel H. Nelson, Rosemary O'Leary, Larry D. Schroeder, Misty Grayer, Nidhi Vij

13. Towards a Joint Maintenance Approach for floodplain management in the Netherlands: tensions and possibilities
Jeroen F. Warner, Jan M. Fliervoet and Antoine J.M. Smits

PART V Process and Participation
14. From the table to the street: Strategies for building a more inclusive collaborative process
Jane Rongerude and Gerardo Sandoval

15. The Challenge of Transformative Learning: Mining Practice Stories to Study Collaboration and Dispute Resolution Strategies
John Forester

16. Hunting for country and culture: The challenges surrounding Indigenous collaborative partnerships on the coast of northern Australia
Cathy J. Robinson

Conclusion
17. The Challenges of Collaborative Governance: Towards a New Research Agenda
Richard D. Margerum, Cathy J. Robinson and Ken Genskow

Index