Risks and Opportunities: Managing Environmental Conflict and Change [Hardcover]

First published in 1995. Managing todays rapidly changing environment inevitably involves managing conflicts between the demands of development and conservation; the needs of the present and of the future; and between different community interests, professional positions and political priorities.

Risks and Opportunities provides both a guide to managing environmental change, and a training manual to pave the way to successful conflict resolution. It explores the full range of potential conflicts and looks at various methods for their resolution. It covers the who, what, why and when of managing change, and emphasizes the need to develop an active and strategic approach which indemnifies the interests and abilities of all the stakeholders.

The books detailed case studies provide in-depth material on the conflicting uses of urban, agricultural and natural environments, and the self-teaching guide and exercises will enable individual readers and organizations to acquire the necessary practical and team-building skills.

List of Figures and Tables;  Glossary;  Acknowledgements;  Part One: Managing Environmental Conflicts Valerie A. Brown;  1. Opportunity and Risk  2. The Challenge of Changing Environmental Management  3. What to Manage? The Five Stages of Environmental Management  4. How to Manage? The Role of Conflict Management to Environmental Management  5. Who Manages? On Becoming an Environmental Manager;  Part Two: Managing Environmental Change;  6. A Heroic Effort: A Case Study of the Salmon Fishing Industry in British Columbia D. Ingle Smith and John Handmer  7. Saving a Shire: Reclaiming a Salt-affected Irrigation District in Victoria Bruce McKenzie, Linden Orr and Peter Crabb&lcd