Resolving Environmental Disputes presents detailed case studies from the key contemporary themes in resource management and environmental protection, such as: access to the countryside for recreation, sustainable forestry, pollution and risks to health, and coastal zone management.
The book spans both theory and practice in assessing the relationship between public participation and mediation. It is structured around detailed case studies from Britain, the USA and the Netherlands, which are interspersed with chapters providing explanation and interpretation of the theoretical and practical issues involved. In reviewing the state of environmental conflict resolution, the author examines how and why conflicts occur and whether approaches to conflict resolution based on consensus building could be more widely applied.

About the Author
Roger Sidaway is an independent researcher and mediator who teaches and leads training courses at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

'Thought provoking, important and instructive, this is a masterly guide to dealing with environmental conflicts'
Professor Des Thompson, Scottish Natural Heritage

'This is a long awaited book. Many of us in the environmental policy, management and decision-making business have been struggling along to make environmental values and developmental values fit. This book helps us to have a better means for finding the shared values and actions that most environmental issues entail. It has the heft of sound scholarship and the street sense of someone who has actually been there and done that'
William R. Burch, Jr., Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management, Faculty Director, Yale Urban Resources Initiative

'One of Roger Sidaway's greatest strengths is that he is fully knowledgeable of both the participatory and consensus-oriented approaches, and he treats them both as part of the same enterprise of finding solutions to community problems through dialogue and mutual problem solving'
James L. Creighton, Author, The Public Participation Manual, Founding President, international Association for Public Participation

Book Information
ISBN 9781844070145
Author Roger Sidaway
Format Hardback
Page Count 314
Imprint Earthscan Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1350g