National Estuary Program
Project
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Collaborative Watershed Institutions and the National Estuary Program
Collaborative watershed institutions are an experiment in democratic
governance. Instead of the coercive policies typical of traditional
environmental policy, collaborative institutions attempt to build voluntary
cooperation between competing stakeholders in order to promote long-term
resource protection. Collaborative institutions have both critics and advocates,
and to date, the academic community has not reached a verdict on their
effectiveness. This research attempts to understand the mechanics of collective
action within watersheds, including an assessment of the success of
collaborative institutions.
The National Estuary Program is a collaborative planning process
sponsored by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
National Estuary Home pages
Publications
- Mark Schneider, John T. Sholz,
Mark Lubell, Denisa Mindruta, and Matt Edwardsen. 2003. "Building
Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program."
American Journal of Political Science 47 (1): 143-158.
- Lubell, Mark, Mark Schneider,
John T. Scholz, and Mihriye Mete. 2002. "
Watershed Partnerships and the Emergence of Collective Action Institutions."
American Journal of Political Science 46(1):148-163.
- Lubell, Mark. 2000. "Cognitive
Conflict and Consensus Building in the National Estuary Program."
American
Behavioral Scientist 44:629-648.
- Lubell, Mark. 2002. "Consensual
Institutions: All Talk and No Action?" Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
- Lubell, Mark. 2003. "Environmental
Governance, Belief Systems, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness."
Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
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Lubell, Mark. 2003. "Do
Watershed Partnerships Enhance Beliefs Conducive to Collective Action?"
Forthcoming in Paul Sabatier et al. Swimming Upstream: Collaborative
Approaches to Watershed Management