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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alissa J Stern; Tim Hicks |
| ISBN: | 1567202926 9781567202922 |
| OCLC Number: | 43115000 |
| Description: | xi, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Business/Environmental Partnerships: An Overview -- Understanding What Collaboration Entails -- Collaborating to Influence Corporate Practices -- Gaining Internal Organizational Consensus for a Collaborative Partnership -- Identifying and Engaging Parties -- Collaborating to Build Consensus (but Not Succeeding) -- Setting Ground Rules -- Creating a Strategic Plan -- Collaborating for Financial and Environmental Benefit -- Challenges to Success: Process Difficulties -- Collaborating to Influence Public Policy -- Challenges to Success: Substantive Disputes -- Documenting the Partnership's Work -- Getting Help from Other Organizations -- Collaborating to Resolve a Conflict -- Getting Help from Individual Experts -- Evaluating Progress -- Making Environmental Collaborations Work -- Recent Environmental Collaborations. |
| Responsibility: | Alissa J. Stern, with Tim Hicks. |
Abstract:
This work aims to show how business and environmental organizations can settle their differences and achieve mutually beneficial results, via voluntary collaborative partnerships. It explains how best to identify collective "interests" and "goals".
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"This book takes a fresh look at the role of collaboration in resolving environmental disputes. Through its real world examples, it explores not only the tough issues of when and how to initiate a collaboration but also how best to think about our collective interests' and goals'. I strongly recommend this book to those of us out here on the front lines in search of success."-Liz Barratt-Brown Senior Attorney NRDC Read more...
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