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Negotiating Environmental Agreements
Jennifer Thomas-Larmer cowrote, with Lawrence Susskind and Paul F. Levy, Negotiating Environmental Agreements: How to Avoid Escalating Confrontation, Needless Costs, and Unnecessary Litigation (Island Press, 2000).
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"This useful book is likely to bring a lot of people involved in environmental law enforcement to the (unfortunately belated) realization that out-of-court negotiation is not only a preferable alternative in theory to the painful costs and crudities of litigation, but that it is now realistically practicable as well. [The book] is upbeat, technically persuasive, and vivid in its demonstrations." Zygmunt Plater, Professor of Environmental Law Boston College Law School |
(Lawrence Susskind is a professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and founder of the Consensus Building Institute. Paul Levy is the President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.)
Negotiating Environmental Agreements captures, in book form, the essence of a training seminar of the same name given by Susskind and Levy. The book includes a systematic exposition of the theory of mutual gains negotiation and its application to environmental disputes. It includes five simulations, or role-playing games, intended to test the reader's understanding of the mutual gains approach. Negotiating Environmental Agreements also contains four case studies that provide examples of successful negotiated agreements. Mediators Gregory Sobel, Patrick Field, and Edward Scher contributed cases to the volume.
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