Partnering for the Environment

"Drawing on ethnographic research performed with four case study partnerships in the European Union and the United States, Poncelet focuses on the diverging ways that stakeholders think, talk, and conventionally act with regard to the environment issues at stake. Also explored are the roles of environmental partnerships as sites of personal information, where participants - and their perspectives, conceptualizations, and expectations - can and do change. Partnering for the Environment concludes by examining the broader implications of multistakeholder partnerships for the future of environmental decision making and suggests ways in which these partnerships may by more effectively used and managed."--BOOK JACKET.