Publications
For publications about partnership and collaboration in specific interest areas, refer to the following Interest pages:
This page lists articles, books, reports, and other documents about collaboration and partnerships in general. These publications are written by federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, professional mediators, scholars, research institutes, and others.
To find Forest Service publications on any topic, visit Treesearch. Refer to our Tools page for hands-on guides and handbooks on partnerships and collaboration.
Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making. Ronald D. Brunner, Toddi A. Steelman, Lindy Coe-Juell, Christina M. Cromley, Christine M. Edwards, and Donna W. Tucker. 2005. New York: Columbia University Press. [book]
A Look at Partnerships in the Pacific Southwest Region. Developed by Forest Service Grant Strategists Enterprise Unit. March 2002.
Beyond Boundaries: Resource Stewardship in the Skagit River Basin [web version] [pdf version]
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Pacific Northwest Region. 2001.
Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities. Edward P. Weber. 2003. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [book]
Building Bridges across Agency Boundaries. Julia Wondolleck and Steve Yaffee. 2000. In: Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: the Science of Ecosystem Management, ed. K. Kolm and J. Franklin. p. 381-396. Washington, DC: Island Press. [book]
Building Bridges across Agency Boundaries: In Search of Excellence in the U.S. Forest Service. Research report to the USDA - Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. Julia Wondolleck and Steve Yaffee. 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan.
Sustaining the Success of Collaborative Partnerships: Revisiting the Building Bridges Cases. [PDF, 25 pages] Research report submitted to USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee. 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan.
Centennial Service Challenge Accomplishment Report: Fiscal Year 2006. [PDF, 45 pages, 6 MB] USDA Forest Service. November 2006.
Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems. Barbara Gray. 1989. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Management Series. [book]
Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? Tomas M. Koontz, Toddi A. Steelman, JoAnn Carmin, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Cassandra Moseley, and Craig W. Thomas. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 2004. [book]
Collaborative Stewardship within the Forest Service - Findings and Recommendations from the National Collaborative Stewardship Team. July 1997 and April 2000. [ RTF format ] [ MS Word 2000 format ]
Evaluation of Community-Based Environmental Protection Projects: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned. [PDF, 74 pages] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Economics and Innovation. 2003.
Factors That Promote and Constrain Bridging: A Summary and Analysis of the Literature. [PDF, 43 pages] Research report submitted to the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. Steven L. Yaffee, Julia M. Wondolleck, and Steven R. Lippman. 1997. School of Natural Resources and Environment; University of Michigan
Finding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West. Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. Colburn, Christina M. Cromley, Roberta A. Klein, Elizabeth A. Olson, Ronald Brunner, and Elizabeth A. Olson. 2002. New Haven: Yale University Press. [book]
Forest Products Society Conferences: Presentations, handouts, biographies, and abstracts from past conferences, including “Smallwood 2004: Creating Solutions for Using Small Trees” (May 18-21, 2004, Sacramento, CA).
The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film. An engaging documentary about the agency's first 100 years.
Getting Federal Land Management Agencies to the Collaboration Table: Barriers and Remedies to Cooperative Conservation. [PDF, 13 pages] Collaboration Action Team. August 2005. DRAFT.
How Do We Know We Are Effective? [Dick Senese and Cornelia Butler Flora. 2003. Rural Development News: 26(2).
How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions. David Straus and Thomas C. Layton. 2002. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. [book]
Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management. Wondolleck, J. and S. Yaffee. 2000. Washington, DC: Island Press. [book]
Making Collaboration Work. [PDF, 7 pages]. Steven L. Yaffee and Julia Wondolleck. 2001. Conservation Biology in Practice 1(1).
Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Frames and Cases. Roy J. Lewicki, Barbara Gray, Michael Elliott. 2002. Washington, DC: Island Press. [book]
Nontimber forest products management on national forests in the United States. [PDF, 94 pages] Rebecca J. McLain and Eric T. Jones. 2005. Portland, OR: Pacific USDA FS PNW Research Station. GTR-655 05-208.
Partnership Building and Collaboration within the USDA Forest Service: An Assessment of Potential Contributions and Design Considerations for the Development of Collaborative Resource Teams. [PDF, 54 pages] US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. 2003.
Profiling Collaborative Natural Resource Initiatives and Active Participants. Michael A Schuett, Steve Selin. December 2002. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.
The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution. Rosemary O'Leary, Lisa B. Bingham, Lisa Bingham. 2003. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. [book]
Public Agencies in Collaboration: A Panacea to Gridlock or the Next Big Debacle. Brett Ken Cairn, Director, Indigenous Community Enterprises. Presentation prepared for the National Leadership Conference, Yale University, October 2000. [ RTF format ] [MS Word 2000 format ]
Public-Private Policy Partnerships. Pauline Rosenau, editor. 2000. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [book]
The River Partnership Paradigm: Legal Authorities and Case Study [RTF format]. Jackie Diedrich and Jeffrey Vail. June 2004.
Rural Development and Community-Based Forest Planning and Management: A New Collaborative Paradigm. Frentz, I., S. Burns, D. Voth, and C. Sperry. 1999. Human Environmental Science, University of Arkansas, Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville, AR.
Social Network Analysis for Collaboration in Natural Resource Management. John Schelhas and Lee Cerveny
Social science to improve fuels management: a synthesis of research on collaboration. Sturtevant, Victoria; Moote, Margaret Ann; Jakes, Pamela; Cheng, Anthony S. 2005. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-257. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 84 p.
Strengthening the National Forest Foundation / U.S. Forest Service Partnership. [PDF, 26 pages] An Action Learning Project for the Forest Service Senior Leader Program. Constance Carpenter, Janice Gauthier, Tom Mulder, Bob Rock, and Dave Thom. September 2005.
A Systematic Assessment of Collaborative Resource Management Partnerships. Chrissy Coughlin, Merrick Hoben, Dirk Manskopf, and Shannon Quesada. 1999. Master's Project completed for the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.
Understanding the Relationship Between Collaboration and NEPA. [PDF, 12 pages] A Quick Guide. Prepared by the Pinchot Institute for Conservation with support from the Ford Foundation. November 2005
Watershed Solutions: Collaborative Problem Solving for States and Communities. Langdon Marsh. 2003. Report from a colloquium on watershed-based collaboration.
The Western Confluence: a Guide to Natural Resource Use. M. McKinney and W. Harmon. 2004. Washington, DC: Island Press. [book]
What is Consensus-Building and Why is It Important for Resource Management? Gail Bingham. Resolve, Inc.
When the Sparks Fly: Building Consensus when the Science is Contested. Gail Bingham. 2003. Resolve, Inc.
Working across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Organizations. Russell M. Linden. 2002. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. [book]
Working through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach. Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker. 2001. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. [book] |
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