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The cooperation challenge of economics and the protection of water supplies : a case study of the New York City watershed collaboration
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How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City's watershed co...
How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City's watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of pollution, encouraging environmentally compatible economic development, and coping with conflicts that are part of the collaboration process. It also yields insights into what we need to work effectively towards sustainable economic development. This book identifies many barriers to achievin
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- Creator
- Joan Hoffman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- ISBNs
- 113516696X, 1135166978, 1282571850, 9786612571855, 0203859774, 0415516862, 0415774705
- OCLC
- ocn609859022, ocn647917643
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface: The Tan t'ien of collaboration; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction: The problem and the questions; 1 New York City's case, needed cooperation, and collaboration needs; 2 The vision; 3 Watershed collaborations: Green milieus for sustainable development?; 4 Rural economies and the drama of farming and forestry; 5 Implementation: The collaboration as a learning machine; 6 Conflict; 7 Evaluation; 8 Lessons learned: The art of paying for nature's services
- Appendix A List of reservoirs (construction years) (capacity in billions of gallons)Appendix B Timeline for the watershed; Appendix C Watershed Protection and Partnership Council members August 2008; Appendix D National farm programs; Appendix E State farm programs; Appendix F National forestry programs; Appendix G State Forestry programs; Appendix H Census block groups used for the study of watershed residents; Appendix I Zip codes used for watershed and WTOW in employer study; Bibliography; Index