1st Edition
The Cooperation Challenge of Economics and the Protection of Water Supplies A Case Study of the New York City Watershed Collaboration
By Joan Hoffman
Copyright 2010
320 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City’s watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of pollution, encouraging environmentally compatible economic development, and coping with conflicts... Read more
Introduction: The Problem and the Questions 1. New York City’s Case, Needed Cooperation, and Collaboration Needs 2. The Vision 3. Watershed Collaborations: Green Milieus for Sustainable Development? 4. Rural Economies and the Drama of Farm and Forest 5. Implementation: The Collaboration as a Learning Machine 6. Conflict 7. Evaluation 8. Lessons Learned: The Art of Paying for Ecological Services
Biography
Joan Hoffman is a Professor of economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA.
