Table of Contents:
  • The Promise and Challenge of Collaboration in Resource Management
  • Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future
  • Why Is Innovation Occurring?
  • A New Style of Resource Management
  • The Uses and Mechanisms of Collaboration
  • A Guide to Making Collaboration Work
  • Why Collaboration?
  • Building Understanding
  • Making Wise Decisions and Building Support for Them
  • Getting Work Done
  • Developing Agencies, Organizations, and Communities
  • The Challenge of Collaboration
  • The Basic Dilemma
  • Institutional and Structural Barriers
  • Barriers Due to Attitudes and Perceptions
  • Problems with the Process of Collaboration
  • Overcoming Barriers
  • Lessons from a Decade of People Working Together
  • Building on Common Ground
  • A Sense of Place or Community
  • Shared Problems or Fears
  • Shared Goals or Interests
  • Compatible Interests
  • Creating New Opportunities for Interaction
  • Working at Outreach through Communication
  • Establishing New Structures
  • Crafting Meaningful, Effective, and Enduring Processes
  • A Meaningful and Legitimate Process of Interaction
  • An Effective Process
  • An Enduring Process
  • Focusing on the Problem in New and Different Ways
  • A Willingness to Try New Approaches
  • A Holistic Perspective
  • Problem Focused, Not Bound by Positions or Procedures
  • Not Bound by Traditional Conceptions of Agency Roles
  • Learning Together
  • Bounding the Problem with Credible Information
  • Fostering a Sense of Responsibility and Commitment
  • Transforming "Them" to "Us."