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“ronald d brunner”

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  • Finding Common Ground

    Governance and Natural Resources in the American West

    by Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. Colburn, Ms. Christina M. Cromley, Roberta A. Klein ...
    Over the past century, solutions to natural resources policy issues have become increasingly complex. Multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and differing mandates as well as multiple interest groups have contributed to gridlock, frequently preventing solutions in the common interest. Community-based responses to natural resource problems in the American West have demonstrated ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Adaptive Governance

    Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making

    by Ronald Brunner, Lindy Coe-Juell, Christina Cromley, Christine Edwards, Toddi Steelman, Donna Tucker ...
    Drawing on five detailed case studies from the American West, the authors explore and clarify how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance and break the gridlock in natural resource policymaking. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central bureaucratic authority, adaptive governance integrates various types of knowledge and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Rise of Global Corporate Social Responsibility

    Mining and the Spread of Global Norms

    by Hevina S. Dashwood ...
    Series series Business and Public Policy
    Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organization theory and public policy, this book provides a complete explanation for the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), showing how global norms influenced CSR adoption in the mining industry. Global normative developments have clearly had an important influence on major mining companies: ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Rural Design

    A New Design Discipline

    by Dewey Thorbeck ...
    Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems are inextricably coupled and engaged in continuous cycles of mutual influence and response.This book ... Read more

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  • Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy

    Edited by Frances Abele, Chris Southcott ...
    People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada explore this sector through fifteen case studies, encompassing artistic, ... Read more

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  • In Our Backyard

    Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development

    Edited by Aimée Craft, Jill Blakley ...
    Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty rapids ... Read more

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  • Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy

    Edited by Alison Mathie ...
    This collection of eleven cases from Canada and the United States gives expression to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness and environmental sustainability. Grappling with complex problems in their local communities, organized citizens are forging innovation, prying open cracks in the prevailing economic system and seizing opportunities to redirect economic life. Featured here are examples ... Read more

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  • The Future of Conservation in America

    A Chart for Rough Water

    by Gary E. Machlis, Jonathan B. Jarvis ...
    Drawing on "eighty years of public service in conservation" the authors "chart a course for a new generation of conservation action and leadership" (President Jimmy Carter).This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental ... Read more

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  • Water without Borders?

    Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters

    Edited by Emma S. Norman, Alice Cohen, Karen Bakker ...
    Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing relationship between Canada and the US with respect to shared waters, as well as the implications of these changes for geopolitics and the ... Read more

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  • Federal Ecosystem Management

    Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife

    by James R. Skillen ...
    For the better part of the last century, “preservation” and “multi-use conservation” were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling for a new paradigm: ecosystem management. Such an approach would integrate federal land and resource management across ... Read more

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  • Environmental Disputes

    Community Involvement In Conflict Resolution

    by James Crowfoot, Julia M. Wondolleck ...
    Environmental Disputes helps citizen groups, businesses, and governments understand how Environmental Dispute Settlement--a set of procedures for settling disputes over environmental policies without litigation--can work for them. ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Cities in American Democracy

    From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal

    by Carmen Sirianni ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable ... Read more

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