2nd Edition

Planning with Complexity An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

By Judith E. Innes, David E. Booher Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever. The authors lay out a new theory for collaborative practice in planning, public administration, and public policy. Planning with Complexity provides both theoretical underpinnings and extensive case material on collaboration and offers ways... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Thinking differently for an age of complexity

Chapter 2 How can theory improve practice?

Chapter 3 Stories from the Field

Chapter 4 The Praxis of Collaboration

Chapter 5 Dialogue as a community of inquiry

Chapter 6 Knowledge into action: The role of dialogue

Chapter 7 Local Knowledge

Chapter 8 Collaborative governance for a resilient society

Biography

Judith E. Innes retired after 40 years from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied consensus building processes and taught theory and collaborative planning in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She also directed the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. She has published dozens of articles and books.

David E. Booher has 40 years’ professional experience in negotiation and collaborative planning as a planner, lobbyist, scholar, teacher, and consultant, most recently for the Center for Collaborative Policy. He is an author of numerous articles on collaboration in public policy and planning.