Conflict And Choice In Resource Management - 9780367020385

Taylor & Francis

Focusing on the problems of resource management in Alaska's coastal and offshore regions, Dr. Dryzek shows how present mechanisms and analytical techniques for reconciling conflict are inadequate. > This book examines the process of policymaking in situations in which the interests, values, and rights of the various actors conflict with one another and suggest contradictory courses of action. Focusing on the problems of resource management in Alaska's coastal and offshore regions, Dr. Dryzek shows how present mechanisms and analytical techniqu > Preface -- Natural Resources Policy: The Need for Reconstruction -- Natural Resources in Alaska and the Existing Management Regime -- Actors, Interests, and the Politics of Conflict Resolution -- Principles for Natural Resource Management: The Good, the Right, and the Ecologically Sound -- Policy Alternatives: Competing Visions of Alaska's Future -- Conflicting Values and the Analytics of Conflict Resolution -- Reaching Decisions .