Techniques for Resolving Coastal Resource Management Disputes Through Negotiation

Susskind, Leonard; McCreary, Scott

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“…As noted earlier, this consensus-based approach has been used in order to reach agreements that satisfy all of the parties involved. Consensus building allows members to discover solutions that satisfy their own needs while at the same time satisfying the needs of other members (Susskind & McCreary, 1985). Although SACs often state that their job is to provide consensus-based advice to the manager, the actual decisionmaking process outlined in the charters and used by the SACs does not provide for this approach.…”

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Sanctuary Advisory Councils: Involving the Public in the National Marine Sanctuary Program

Morin¹

2001

Coastal Management

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Sanctuary Advisory Councils: Involving the Public in the National Marine Sanctuary Program

Morin¹

2001

Coastal Management

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“…Sometimes, they might even take confrontational actions involving contentious public hearings, angry media volleys, or large-scale demonstrations (Susskind and McKearnan 1999). These traditional approaches, however, mostly failed to reconcile the conflicting claims of the involved parties, tending to generate less-than-optimal outcomes (Amy 1987;Susskind and McCreary 1985).…”

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Governing Environmental Conflicts in China

Li¹

2018

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a million premature deaths each year. China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and choking smog in cities reaches levels that make it hazardous to go outside. 3 According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China's figure for 2010, 4 the cost of pollution has reached about 1.5 trillion RMB, or roughly 3.5 percent of GDP. For the Chinese state, one unanticipated outcome caused by degrading environmental quality is the occurrence of a large number of environmental conflicts. Since 1997, environmental conflicts have increased annually by 25 percent (Hou and Zhang 2009). In recent years, there is increasing evidence that the upcoming middle class in urban regions has started to express their concerns and disagreements with government decisions, which adopt a rule-based approach; national laws, policies, or regulations are cited to remedy perceived governmental mismanagement (Johnson 2010). One consequence of this is that the Chinese state often has to reinforce public participation to accommodate this. In addition, in contrast to many violent protests that have occurred in rural China in response to environmental degradation, these citizens work within the existing political system as much as possible. They attempt to depoliticize their protest actions by establishing transparency and public consultation as their master frame (Johnson 2015), which is a generic type of collective action frame (Snow and Benford 1992). In contrast to other types of master frame, such as human rights, political reform, or political freedom, this master frame is relatively acceptable for the Chinese state, which creates an environment for negotiation between it and its citizens (Johnson 2015).In general, these new features of protests initiated by Chinese citizens in relation to environmental issues cause a dilemma for the state. China, like many other authoritarian counties, has established concession and repression as two crucially important strategies to cope with social conflicts (Cai 2010). However, both suppression and concession appear to be ineffective in coping with environmental conflicts in contemporary China. First, the occurrences of environmental conflicts with mobilized protests potentially endanger social order, the top priority of the Chinese state. Actions must be taken to end them as soon as possible. Second, the depoliticized nature of the protests initiated by citizens makes the use of suppression inappropriate as it will significantly damage state legitimacy. Third, making concessions to meet 3 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/china-pollution-protests-2014729105632310682.html (accessed August 25, 2015). 4 http://www.cfr.org/china/chinas-environmental-crisis/p12608 (accessed August 25, 2015).4citizens' demands by enhancing public participation does not match the authoritarian nature of the state. It can be thus concluded that the governance of environmental conflicts is a challenging issue for the Chinese state; concession or suppression cannot help it out of environmental co...

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“…There may be benefits accruing from the ADR process that are independent of an agreement. The use of ADR, alone or in conjunction with a conventional process, may provide resolution of environmental conflicts faster (Susskind and McCreary 1985;Buckle and Thomas-Buckle 1986;Kubasek and Silverman 1988;Sipe and Stiftel 1995), at less cost to the parties (Susskind and Ozawa 1983;Bingham 1986;Kubasek and Silverman 1988;Stukenborg 1994), and/or with greater disputant satisfaction with the process and its outcome than the use of a conventional process used on its own (Roehl and Cook 1985;Stukenborg 1994). Although there are many other possible variables by which to measure success, they are identified less frequently in the environmental ADR literature.…”

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Examining the Claims of Environmental ADR

Andrew¹

2001

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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The literature has established many claims concerning the effectiveness of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in resolving environmental conflicts, with little empirical research to support them. Using data collected from 54 recent cases in which ADR was used to resolve waste management disputes in Ontario and Massachusetts, this study employs seven criteria of success to test empirically the validity of these claims. Although by some measures ADR has been quite successful in certain types of environmental conflicts, this study shows that it is hardly a panacea for resolving waste management disputes.

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Techniques for Resolving Coastal Resource Management Disputes Through Negotiation

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Sanctuary Advisory Councils: Involving the Public in the National Marine Sanctuary Program

Sanctuary Advisory Councils: Involving the Public in the National Marine Sanctuary Program

Governing Environmental Conflicts in China

Examining the Claims of Environmental ADR

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