1st Edition

Risks and Opportunities Managing Environmental Conflict and Change

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1995. Managing today’s rapidly changing environment inevitably involves managing conflicts between the demands of development and conservation; the needs of the present and of the future; and between different community interests, professional positions and political priorities. Risks and Opportunities provides both a guide to managing environmental change, and a training... Read more

List of Figures and Tables;  Glossary;  Acknowledgements;  Part One: Managing Environmental Conflicts Valerie A. Brown;  1. Opportunity and Risk  2. The Challenge of Changing Environmental Management  3. What to Manage? The Five Stages of Environmental Management  4. How to Manage? The Role of Conflict Management to Environmental Management  5. Who Manages? On Becoming an Environmental Manager;  Part Two: Managing Environmental Change;  6. A Heroic Effort: A Case Study of the Salmon Fishing Industry in British Columbia D. Ingle Smith and John Handmer  7. Saving a Shire: Reclaiming a Salt-affected Irrigation District in Victoria Bruce McKenzie, Linden Orr and Peter Crabb  8. Trouble with Traffic: The Effects of Rapid Urbanisation in Bangkok, Thailand Anuchat Poungsomlee, Helen Ross and Rob Wiseman  9. The Future of Calico Creek: Local Management of a Small Subtropical Water Catchment D. Ingle Smith, Linden Orr and Rob WisemanPart Three: Managing Conflict and Change: A Learning Programme Valerie A. Brown, Rob Wiseman and Ian McAuley10. Introduction: Setting the Agenda  11. Stage 1: Exploration and Forecasting  12. Stage 2: Analysis and Coordination  13. Stage 3: Goalsetting and Negotiation  14. Stage 4: Action and Cooperation  15. Stage 5: Evaluation and Illumination  16. Individual Learning and Personal Change  17. Organisational Learning and Social Change;  Appendix

Biography

Valerie Brown, David Ingle Smith, Rob Wiseman, John Handmer