Resolving Environmental Conflict Towards Sustainable Community Development

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CRC Press, 1995 M11 21 - 224 pages
One of the most important challenges facing civilization is how its natural resources will be used and protected. Too often polarization and litigation cause results with which no one is truly satisfied. Enemies are made, lines are drawn and both people and the environment are degraded.
Resolving Environmental Conflict explains the transformative approach toward facilitation. It shows how to help parties empower themselves to define the issues and decide the settlement on their own terms and on their own time through better understanding of one another's perspectives.
The transformative approach allows a conflict's outcome to be decided solely by the participants even though resolution may not take place for some months after facilitation is complete. Inherent in the solution is a shared vision for the community without which sustainability is not possible.
Beyond shared vision, this book examines notions of development, sustainability, and community and the synergism of ecology, culture and economic needs that promote a healthy environment enriching the lives of all its inhabitants.
 

Contents

Approaches to Facilitation
3
Conflict Is a Choice
13
Nature Keeps Its Own Scorecard
38
4
45
Unconscious Thoughts that Manifest
52
The Capacity for Rational Thought
64
The Interpersonal Element
69
Communication Barriers
76
Conflict Is a Learning Partnership
99
Practicing Transformative Facilitation
131
Destructive Conflict Brought to a Shared Vision
139
Vision Goals and Objectives
146
Beyond Destructive Conflict
155
Local Community Development
167
Modifying Our Belief Systems Regarding Change
187
References
195

Use of Abstractions
82
The Primacy of Process
90

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