COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE IN
THE WEST:
PROSPECTS, PROBLEMS AND THEORY
October 1, 2007
Oregon State University
LaSells Stewart Center
Corvallis, Oregon
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here for a tentative Agenda
Sponsored by:
Sustainable
Rural Communities Initiative, Oregon State University
Thomas
S. Foley Institute for Public Policy & Public Service,
Washington State University
Institute
for Natural Resources, Oregon University System
Institute
for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University
Master
of Public Policy Program, Oregon State University
Cooperative and collaborative strategies are increasingly
used to address some of most intractable natural resource
problems in the west. What are the strengths and limitations
of these new governance strategies? How do they operate within
the existing local, state, and federal legal frameworks? When
are they effective and when do they merely postpone hard decisions?
And, what is there about existing institutions in the Western
United States that seem to promote, sustain, or limit these
new governance approaches?
Oregon State University and Washington State University announce
a fall symposium and to examine and advance our understanding
of collaborative governance of environmental and natural resource
issues in the Western United States. Drawing on the top researchers
and practitioners in the field, there will be public presentations,
a keynote speaker, and a roundtable discussion concerning
collaborative governance on October 1 at Oregon State University.
The major objective of the symposium is to generate provocative
new ideas on collaborative governance in the West that will
expand our knowledge about this phenomenon. We are interested
in generating broad theoretical and interdisciplinary contributions
that will shape future research and practice in the field.
Organizing Committee:
Brent
Steel, Director, Master of Public Policy Program, OSU
Ed
Weber, Director, Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public
Policy & Public Service, WSU
Denise
Lach, Water Resources Management and Policy/Sociology,
OSU
Michael
Campana, Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds,
OSU
Eugene
Rosa, Professor, Sociology, Washington State University
Gail
Achterman, Director, Institute for Natural Resources,
OUS
Bruce
Weber, Director, Rural Studies Program, OSU
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