When Do Watershed Stakeholder Negotiations Work? A Multiple Lens Approach

由单一职能的联邦和州机构实施的指挥与控制监管有许多局限性。因此，以社区为基础的环境规划涉及政府和私人各方之间的直接谈判，已成为解决当地环境冲突的一种日益流行的战略。本项目旨在确定：1)在设计和实施具体管理项目时，以协商一致为基础的谈判是否比传统方法更成功。2)三个理论框架--埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆的制度分析和发展框架、保罗·萨巴蒂尔和汉克·詹金斯-史密斯的倡导联盟框架和罗伯特·普特南的社会资本框架--在解释分水岭谈判达成和实施具有法律约束力的协议的能力方面的相对能力。该数据库将包括对加州60个分水岭谈判参与者的个人访谈和调查。

Command-and-control regulation by single-function federal and state agencies has many limitations. In response, community-based environmental planning involving direct negotiations among governmental and private parties has become an increasingly popular strategy for resolving local environmental conflicts. This project seeks to ascertain: 1) whether consensus-based negotiations are more successful than conventional methods in designing and implementing specific management projects. 2) the relative ability of three theoretical frameworks-Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, the Advocacy Coalition Framework of Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, and Robert Putnam's Social Capital Framework-in explaining the ability of watershed negotiations to reach and implement legally-binding agreements. The data base will involve personal interviews and surveys of participants in 60 watershed negotiations in California.