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The Udall Center facilitates multistakeholder policy dialogues on contentious environmental issues,conducts research on institutional approaches to conflict, and examines innovative conflicy solutions. The Center sponsors such forums as the Arizona Common Ground Roundtable, develops and enacts role-play simulation games, sponsors training workships on facilitation and mediation, and responds to requests and commissions for design and facilitation of policy dialogues and public participation processes.
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Global Water Initiatives: Preliminary Observations on their Evolution and Signficance
by Robert G. Varady
Conference paper for presentation at the AWRA/IWLRI Conference, "Good Water Governance for People & Nature:
What Roles for Law, Institutions, Science & Finance?" 29 August - 1 September 2004, Dundee, Scotland.
 (PDF, 225KB)
Presents a brief history of institutions known as “global water initiatives,” a phenomenon that reflects a post-World War II trend toward collective approaches to resolving multinational issues in general and common-pool resources in particular. These initiatives have proliferated because of a belief that water transcends national boundaries and must be managed cooperatively, equitably, and using the best science. The paper tentatively evaluates the effectiveness of these initiatives, which arguably have become the dominant model for international water-resources management.
2004 9p. Free
 Saving the Sierra: Alternative Mechanisms for Conserving Northern Mexico's Last Wild Places
by Mich Coker
Assesses the current state of biodiversity conservation in Mexico and explores several mechanisms for securing permanent conservation status for Mexican lands. Strategies include establishing conservation easements, building alliances with transnational corporations, educating local communities and regional governments, enforcing international obligations, as well as the outright purchase of biologically-rich lands.
2003 20p. ISBN 1-931143-22-6 $4 |
 Collaborative Conservation in Theory and Practice: A Literature Review
by Alex Conley and Ann Moote
Brings together a selected, representative sampling of the academic, popular, and gray literature, and introduces the reader to over 300 publications addressing many different disciplines--from watershed management to democratic theory, from international development to alternative dispute resolution.
2001 33p. ISBN 1-931143-13-7 $6 |
 Purchase of Development Rights: Conserving Lands, Preserving Western Livelihoods
by Mette Brogden
Provides a "how-to" primer for state policymakers and landowners interested in establishing purchase of development rights programs to preserve open space and agricultural lands. Brief case studies illustrate what works and why.
2001 24p. $2 |
 State Conservation Agreements: Creating Effective Partnerships for Proactive Conservation
edited by Mette Brogden
(PDF, 960KB)
Summarizes a national policy dialogue undertaken from November 2000 through July 2001 to understand how to improve the harnessing of collective resources--fiscal resources, property, scientific knowledge, local experience, intelligence, creativity, time, and voluntary spirit--to conserve biological diversity.
2001 37p. $2 Sold Out
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 Assessing Research Needs: A Summary of a Workshop on Community-based Collaboratives
by Ann Moote, Alex Conley, Karen Firehock, and Frank Dukes
Summarizes discussions held during a 1999 meeting in Tucson among academics, professional mediators and facilitators, collaborative group participants, federal agency employees, and environmental activists on the role of research in informing and assessing community-based approaches to managing natural resources.
2000 20p. ISBN 1-931143-04-8 $4 |
 Resources for Environmental Conflict Resolution: Selected Bibliographies, Databases, and Publications
by Gwen Alexander and Rachel Yaseen
Provides an annotated bibliography of bibliographies in the area of environmental conflict resolution, including resourcfes on collaborative conservation, community development and strategic planning, ecosystem management, and resource allocation, among other relevant subjects.
2000 24p. ISBN 1-931143-03-X $3 |
 Conflict on the Culebra! A Role Playing Simulation Game for Teaching Environmental Conflict Resolution Techniques
by Rick Yarde, Robert Merideth, and Susan Moodie
A simulation exercise that aims to facilitate conflict resolution in a western watershed. By simulating environmental conflicts, the program encourages stakeholders (ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, developers, water planners, and other interested citizens) to assume roles other than their own and enact the conflict scenario with facilitators.
1999 24p. ISBN 1-931143-05-6 $5 |
Protecting America's Wilderness Heritage: Reclaiming Our Wild Lands from Sacrifice to Off-road Vehicle Use: A Utah Case Study
by Jeremy Lite
Examines the laws and regulations governing the designation of off-road vehicle-use areas on public lands, focusing on how the courts have interpreted various requirements. The growing conflict surrounding off-road vehicle use on lands eligible for wilderness designation in Utah provides a focus for discussing use-area designations and legal strategies for controlling off-road vehicle use.
1999 31p. ISBN 1-931143-07-2 $6 |
 Trouble in Tortuga! A Role Playing Simulation Game for Teaching Environmental Conflict Resolution Techniques
by Kirk Emerson, Hal Movius, and Robert Merideth
(HTML)
A simulation exercise that aims to facilitate conflict resolution in a western rangeland. By simulating environmental conflicts, the program encourages stakeholders (ranchers, environmentalists, developers, district rangers, and other interested citizens) to assume roles other than their own and enact the conflict scenario with facilitators.
1999 24p. ISBN 1-931143-06-4 $5
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Digest of the Pygmy-Owl Forum: A public meeting, held on January 7, 1998, to discuss issues surrounding the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl in Pima County, Arizona
edited by Kirk Emerson and others
(PDF, 174KB)
Details of the 1998 public forum called by U.S. Congressman Jim Kolbe to discuss the potential impact of the pygmy-owl endangered species listing on future building projects in Pima County, and specifically, on plans for construction of a new high school in northwestern Tucson, Arizona. Includes summaries of panels comprising representatives of both public agencies and interest groups.
1998 87p. ISBN 1-931143-10-2 $5
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Facilitating Multi-Party Dialogue: An Introductory Training
by Kirk Emerson, Ann Moote, and Gregg Walker
Program and printed slides from the 1998 training on how to facilitate multi-party collaboration in resolving environmental concerns. Focus on the Upper San Pedro region.
1998 50p. $5
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Public Input Digest for the Upper San Pedro River Initiative
by Kirk Emerson, Ann Moote, Luke Evans, Mette Brogden, Alex Conley, Susan Moodie, and Rick Yarde
At the request of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Udall Center developed a public input process to ensure a broad review of the report, "Sustaining and Enhancing Migratory Bird Habitat" (below), and to encourage community dialogue on the future of the river. This digest summarizes the public input gathered during this two-month process on the U.S. side of the border.
1998 29p. ISBN 1-931143-09-9 $5
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Sustaining and Enhancing Riparian Migratory Bird Habitat on the Upper San Pedro River
Hector Arias Rojo, John Bredehoeft, Ronald Lacewell, Jeff Price, Julie Stromberg, and Gregory A. Thomas
Prepared by an interdisciplinary team of experts commissioned by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the report examines the status of migratory bird habitat in the basin and the hydrologic, social, economic, and political conditions that might be affecting that habitat.
1998 141p. $10 |
Environmental Conflict Resolution in the West
edited by Kirk Emerson, Rick Yarde, and Tanya Heikkila Offers panel and presentation summaries from the "Environmental Conflict Resolution in the West Conference," held in Tucson, Arizona, in April 1997. Topics include the role of science in western environmental dispute resolution, cross-cultural challenges in western environmental conflicts, and managing intergovernmental conflict, among others.
1997 242p. ISBN 1-931143-08-0 $10 |
Does Anybody Win? The Community Consequences of Rural-to-Urban Water Transfers: An Arizona Perspective
by Cy R. Oggins and Helen M. Ingram
With rapid population growth occurring thorughout Arizona, competition and conflict over water have increased because not enough water is available to satisfy all demands. The purpose of this paper is to inform Arizona legislators and concerned citizens about the value conflicts that make rural-to-urban water transfers such a contentious issue in Arizona and throughout the arid West.
1990 72p. $9 |
Taking the Arizona Groundwater Management Act into the Nineties: Proceedings of a conference/symposium commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Arizona law
contributors: Frank Gregg, Lloyd Burton, Gary C. Woodard, Marvin Waterstone, Robert Jerome Glennon, and William B. Lord
Includes the principal papers presented at the conference/symposium, "Taking the Arizona Groundwater Management Act into the Nineties," held on September 6-7, 1990, in Casa Grande, Arizona. The papers provide an overview of the Act, including an historical perspective, an evaluation of its effectiveness, and recommendations and options for its future course.
1990 48p. $6 |
"The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land Use Conflicts in Arizona"
by Mette J. Brogden and James B. Greenberg
Fall 2003, Human Organization 62(3):289-298
This case study of grazing and growth conflicts in Arizona demonstrates that intractable environmental problems may actually be emergent properties of complex systems, requiring new political approaches that foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between disputing stakeholders. One such collaboration in Arizona revealed that attempts to remove grazing from Arizona landscapes could actually be to the detriment of biodiversity, contrary to the expectations of grazing critics.
"Using Role-Play Simulations to Teach Environmental Decision Making and Conflict Resolution Techniques"
by R. Merideth and R. Yaseen
June 2000, Environmental Practice 2(2):139-45
Describes role-play exercises designed to instruct adult audiences in environmental decisionmaking and conflict resolution, and the processes used to develop them. Provides guidance for educators, government officials, and environmental professionals who might want to use such techniques in their own geographic or issue settings.
"Resource Mismanagement Versus Sustainable Livelihoods: The Collapse of the Newfoundland Cod Fishery"
by Lenard Milich
1999, Society & Natural Resources 12: 625-642
The collapse of the Northwest Atlantic cod fishery provides a case study of the interacting biophysical and socioeconomic elements that can decimate a once-abundant natural resource. This article analyzes the collapse as the first step in suggesting a rational fisheries management based on effective stewardship of the resource. This evaluation provides the knowledge base vital for guiding and improving fisheries policy.
"The Role of Methane in Global Warming: Where Might Mitigation Strategies be Focused? "
by Lenard Milich
1999, Global Environmental Change 9:179-201
Describes role-play exercises designed to instruct adult audiences in environmental decisionmaking and conflict resolution, and the processes used to develop them. Provides guidance for educators, government officials, and environmental professionals who might want to use such techniques in their own geographic or issue settings.
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