Resolving Environmental Conflicts: Principles and Concepts, Third Edition

Resolving Environmental Conflicts: Principles and Concepts, Third Edition is a valuable resource that provides an overview of environmental conflict management, collaborative skills, and universal principles to assist in re-thinking and acting toward the common good. It illustrates how to successfully mediate actual environmental disputes and teaches conflict resolution at any level for a wide variety of social-environmental situations. It also adds a new chapter on water conflicts and resolutions and provides new examples of conflicts caused by climate change.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Resolving a conflict is an art that involves helping people with different perspectives find common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to each other for the common good. This ultimately leads to social-environmental sustainability for all generations. Written in a clear and concise style, Resolving Environmental Conflicts: Principles and Concepts, Third Edition is a valuable contribution to environmental conflict management. This book provides an overview of environmental conflicts, collaborative skills, and universal principles to assist in re-thinking and acting toward the common good. It integrates a variety of new real-world conflicts as a foundation for building trust, skills, consensus, and capacity. It also explains pathways to collectively construct a relationship-centric future, fostering healthier interactions with one another and the planet.

The new edition illustrates how to successfully mediate actual environmental disputes and how to teach conflict resolution at any level for a wide variety of social-environmental situations. It adds a new chapter on water conflicts and resolutions, providing avenues to healthy, sustainable, and effective outcomes. It also provides new examples of conflicts caused by climate change with discussion questions for clear understanding.

Land-use planners, urban planners, field biologists, and leaders and participants in collaborative environmental projects and initiatives will find this book to be an invaluable resource. University students in related courses will also benefit, as will anyone interested in achieving greater social-environmental sustainability and a more responsible use of our common natural resources for themselves and their children.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032475561
Edition number: 3 ed