Managing Environmental Conflict

An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Joshua D. Fisher

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Columbia University Press
15 February 2022

Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers

Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation, emerging from diverging interests and values among stakeholders. This book is a primer on causes of and solutions to such conflicts. It provides a foundational overview of the theory and practice of collaborative approaches to managing environmental disputes.

Joshua D. Fisher explains the core concepts in collaborative conflict management and presents a clear, practical, and implementable framework for understanding and responding to environmental disputes. He details strategies to bring stakeholders together in pursuit of collective solutions, emphasizing ongoing processes of dialogue, analysis, action, and learning. This collaborative approach can create new opportunities for stakeholders to better understand each other and the natural world, which enables more effective and context-appropriate environmental governance. The primer examines why and how system dynamics can constrain or expand the possibility of constructive management of conflicts. It features a case study from the Amazon Basin, where local communities, extractive industry operators, conservationists, and land managers have often clashed over access to natural resources, drawing out lessons to illustrate how to adapt the conflict management framework to distinct contexts.

Managing Environmental Conflict synthesizes knowledge, methods, and practices spanning consensus building, collaborative governance, complex adaptive systems science, environmental conflict resolution, and environmental peacebuilding. Its presentation of this important and timely topic will be invaluable for academics and practitioners alike, including decision makers, scientists, and conflict management professionals.

By: Joshua D. Fisher
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231196871
ISBN 10: 0231196873
Series: Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 15 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments 1. The Case for Collaborative Environmental Conflict Management 2. Foundations of Environmental Conflict 3. Wicked Systems 4. Collaborative Dynamics 5. Collaborative Environmental Conflict Management: An Integrative Framework 6. Collaborative Environmental Conflict Management in Protected Area Management 7. Collaborative Environmental Conflict Management Practice 8. The Road Ahead Appendix A. Illustrative Tools for Implementing CECM Processes Appendix B. Supplemental Information on Chapter 6 Case Study Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Joshua D. Fisher is a research scientist at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he is also the director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity. He is also a specially appointed professor at Hiroshima University’s Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability. He works with public, private, and nonprofit partners to develop conflict-sensitive approaches to land-use planning and natural resource management and has worked in environmental management around the globe, including in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, and on public lands in the western United States.

Reviews for Managing Environmental Conflict: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Managing Environmental Conflict offers a clear, comprehensive discussion of the range of conflicts involving natural resources and an insightful framework for how to implement CECM. Fisher is concise, brief and provocative, proposing a new way of thinking in the environmental peacebuilding field. -- Janet Edmond, Senior Director for Peace and Development Partnerships in the Center for Environment and Peace, Conservation International