20 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, Case report about mediating complex environmental disputes and using the technique of joint fact-finding as a cornerstone of our model of practice. In this article, we present and reflect on this body of experience, with the goal of better informing both our colleagues in the field and other potential users of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) about the elements and preconditions of successful use of joint fact-finding. We also aim to contribute actively to current initiatives on best practices. Article described shortcomings of the adversarial science model.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02279
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Pages 23-37 in Maury E, bredahl, Nicole Ballenger, John C. Dunmore and Terry L. Roe (eds.), Agriculture, trade and the environment: discovering and measuring the critical linkages. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 310 pages.
18 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, Analysis prompted the author to propose that improving legislative negotiations through alternative dispute resolution tactics - private, multiparty negotiation and mediation by a politician - could have improved the success of various food aid reform efforts in the past by working to balance stakeholder power and quell detrimental opposition tactics.
