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Beyond Polarization:

Public Process and the Unlikely Story of California's Marine Protected Areas
  • ISBN-13: 9781642830828
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Steven L. Yaffee
  • Price: AUD $97.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2020
  • Format: Paperback (150.00mm X 150.00mm) 528 pages Weight: 800g
  • Categories: Conservation of the environment [RNK]
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In a time when the United States is divided and positive collective action feels out of our grasp, Beyond Polarization tells a story of hope. That story goes back to 1999, when California passed a landmark piece of legislation to establish a system of marine protected areas off its coast that would safeguard miles of fragile ocean resources. After a contentious ten-year public process, passage of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPA) was considered nothing short of miraculous. As important as this achievement was, the legacy it left was even more enduring: a blueprint for successful public policy that can be replicated elsewhere. What lessons can we draw?
 
California's experience provides a rare opportunity to learn from a collaborative public process involving private interests and science-intensive decisions. Determined to do just that, Steven Yaffee, a renowned expert on negotiation and collaborative decision making, spent hundreds of hours researching the MPLA process in an effort to understand how California succeeded where other efforts have failed. The result is Beyond Polarization, a highly readable insider's perspective on complicated decision-making processes and the strategic choices necessary for success. The book follows the initiative process region by region, each with its unique stakeholders and geographic concerns. These lessons can be applied to similar initiative processes across the country and world.
 
Beyond Polarization presents an optimistic message about the public policy process in a time of civic division. It offers reassurance that, by using proven decision-making processes, policymakers, scientists, and local citizens can successfully collaborate to manage and protect natural resources we all have a stake in.
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Preface
Chapter 1. Hooks and Bullet Points
PART I. Origins
Chapter 2. Evolving Science, Emerging Networks
Chapter 3. Birth of the MLPA
Chapter 4. Death and Resurrection
Chapter 5. Taking Initiative
Chapter 6. Gaining Traction
 
PART II. Central Coast: Down the Runway Putting Rivets in the Wings
Chapter 7. Riveting Rapidly
Chapter 8. Coming Up to Speed
Chapter 9. Starting to Descend
Chapter 10. Bumpy but Successful Landing         
 
PART III. North Central Coast: Getting It Just Right
Chapter 11. Adaptive Change
Chapter 12. A Semi-Precious Design Process  
Chapter 13. One More Turn of the Screw
Chapter 14. Lock and Load
 
PART IV. South Coast: All Hell Breaks Loose
Chapter 15. Maintaining Momentum
Chapter 16. Game On
Chapter 17. Skirmishes
Chapter 18. Dug In  
Chapter 19. Reset
Chapter 20. Making Sausage
 
PART V. North Coast: From Disunity to Unity
Chapter 21. A Place Apart
Chapter 22. Hitting the Wall
Chapter 23. Not the Summer of Love
Chapter 24. Rebellion and Unification
 
PART VI. Implementation
Chapter 25. Critical Mass
Chapter 26. Process Matters
 
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About the Author
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"Yaffee's vivid account centers the reader within the courage, intensity, loss, and triumph of the MLPA Initiative. This is a dispassionate, historic chronicle of a landmark ocean conservation effort and also a source of lessons about what enables multi-stakeholder public processes to succeed. Process and the people who engage in it are the protagonists of this epic story."
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