Despite a vast amount of effort and expertise devoted to them, many
environmental conflicts have remained mired in controversy,
stubbornly defying resolution. Why can some environmental problems
be resolved in onelocale but remain contentious in another, often
carrying on for decades? What is it about certain issues or the
people involved that make a conflict seemingly insoluble?
Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts addresses
those and related questions, examining what researchers and experts
in the field characterize as "intractable" disputes-intense
disputes that persist over long periods of time and cannot be
resolved through consensus-building efforts or by administrative,
legal, or political means. The approach focuses on the "frames"
parties use to define and enact the dispute-the lenses through
which they interpret and understand the conflict and critical
conflict dynamics. Through analysis of interviews, news media
coverage, meeting transcripts, and archival data, the contributors
to the book: examine the concepts of frames, framing, and
reframing, and the role that framing plays in conflicts, outline
the essential characteristics of intractability and its major
causes, offer case studies of eight intractable environmental
conflicts, present a rich body of original interview material from
affected parties, set forth recommendations for intervention that
can help resolve disputes
Within each case chapter, the authors describe the historical
development and fundamental nature of the conflict and then analyze
the case from the perspective of the key frames that are integral
to understanding the dynamics of the dispute. They also offer
cross-case analyses of related conflicts.
Conflicts examined include those over natural resource use,
toxic pollutants, water quality, and growth. Specific conflicts
examined are theQuincy Library Group in California; Voyageurs
National Park in Minnesota; Edwards Aquifer in Texas; Doan Brook in
Cleveland, Ohio; the Antidegradation Environmental Advisory Group
in Ohio; Drake Chemical in Pennsylvania; Alton Park/Piney Woods in
Tennessee; and three examples of growth-related conflicts along the
Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
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