Negotiating Environmental Agreements: How to Avoid Escalating Confrontation, Needless Costs, and Unnecessary Litigation - Couverture souple

Susskind Swa, Lawrence; Levy, University Paul; Thomas-Larmer, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1559636335 ISBN 13 : 9781559636339

Editeur : Island Press, 1999

Synopsis

When business leaders, government officials, and other stakeholders come to the table in an environmental, health, or safety dispute, acrimony often results, leading to expensive and time-consuming litigation. Not only does this waste precious resources, but rarely does the process produce the best outcome for any of the parties involved.

For the past five years, the authors of this volume have conducted semi-annual seminars at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard to provide business leaders and regulators with the knowledge and skills they need to more effectively handle environmental, health, and safety negotiations. Their strategy, known as the "mutual gains approach," is a proven method of producing fairer, more efficient, more stable, and wiser results. Negotiating Environmental Agreements provides the first comprehensive introduction to this widely practiced and highly effective approach to environmental regulation.

The book begins with an overview of the mutual gains approach, introducing important concepts and ideas from negotiation theory as well as the theory and practice of mediation. The authors then offer five model negotiations from their MIT-Harvard Public Disputes seminar, followed by a series of real-world negotiated environmental agreements that illustrate the kinds of outcomes possible when the mutual gains approach is employed. A collection of writings by leading experts provide valuable insights into the process, and appendixes offer both instructions for conducting model negotiation sessions and analysis of actual game results from earlier seminars.

This is the only prescriptive text available for the many regulatees and regulators involved in environmental regulatory negotiations each year. Anyone involved with environmental negotiation -- including corporate and public sector managers, students of environmental policy, environmental management, and business management -- will find the book an essential resource.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 2000).


Paul Levy is Executive Dean of Harvard Medical School.


Jennifer Thomas-Larmer is with the Consensus Building Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1559636335
• ISBN 13: 9781559636339
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible