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The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to
official data are behind us. The credibility of experts and the
information they provide are regularly challenged; officials are
routinely provided with conflicting sets of facts as they plan and
make decisions; and decision makers and stakeholders alike are
largely skeptical that technical information will adequately
account for the various interests and concerns and lead to the
right outcomes. They struggle to reconcile technical information
with other forms of knowledge, and differing interests, priorities
and perspectives. Issues like climate change are complicating
matters even further, as scientists and technicians must
increasingly acknowledge the uncertainty and potential fallibility
of their findings, and highlight the dynamic nature of the systems
they are explaining. This book examines how groups looking to plan
and make decisions in any number of areas can wade through the
imperfect and often contradictory information they have to make
fair, efficient, wise and well-informed choices. It introduces an
emerging and very promising approach called joint fact-finding
(JFF). Rather than each stakeholder group marshaling the set of
facts that best advance their respective interests and perspectives
while discrediting the contradictory facts others provide, groups
are challenged to collaboratively generate shared sets of facts
that all parties accept. This book introduces readers to the theory
of JFF, the value it can provide, and how they can adopt this
approach in practice. It brings together writings from leading
practitioners and scholars from around the world that are at the
forefront of the JFF approach to science intensive policymaking,
urban planning, and environmental dispute resolution. The first set
of chapters outlines the concept of JFF, and situates it within
other bodies of theory and practice. The second set of case-based
chapters elucidates how JFF is being applied in practice. This book
delivers a new perspective to scholars in the field of public
policy, urban planning, environmental studies, and science and
technology studies, as well as public officials, technical experts,
policy consultants, and professional facilitators.
The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to
official data are behind us. The credibility of experts and the
information they provide are regularly challenged; officials are
routinely provided with conflicting sets of facts as they plan and
make decisions; and decision makers and stakeholders alike are
largely skeptical that technical information will adequately
account for the various interests and concerns and lead to the
right outcomes. They struggle to reconcile technical information
with other forms of knowledge, and differing interests, priorities
and perspectives. Issues like climate change are complicating
matters even further, as scientists and technicians must
increasingly acknowledge the uncertainty and potential fallibility
of their findings, and highlight the dynamic nature of the systems
they are explaining. This book examines how groups looking to plan
and make decisions in any number of areas can wade through the
imperfect and often contradictory information they have to make
fair, efficient, wise and well-informed choices. It introduces an
emerging and very promising approach called joint fact-finding
(JFF). Rather than each stakeholder group marshaling the set of
facts that best advance their respective interests and perspectives
while discrediting the contradictory facts others provide, groups
are challenged to collaboratively generate shared sets of facts
that all parties accept. This book introduces readers to the theory
of JFF, the value it can provide, and how they can adopt this
approach in practice. It brings together writings from leading
practitioners and scholars from around the world that are at the
forefront of the JFF approach to science intensive policymaking,
urban planning, and environmental dispute resolution. The first set
of chapters outlines the concept of JFF, and situates it within
other bodies of theory and practice. The second set of case-based
chapters elucidates how JFF is being applied in practice. This book
delivers a new perspective to scholars in the field of public
policy, urban planning, environmental studies, and science and
technology studies, as well as public officials, technical experts,
policy consultants, and professional facilitators.
Government agencies in Japan are often faced with public
oppositions to their infrastructure building proposals. Can
consensus building processes, as practiced in the US, be used to
resolve such disputes in Japan? Scholars and practitioners in the
field of negotiation and dispute resolution, as well as policy
transfer theorists, have raised concerns about cross-border
transfers by referring to a variety of contextual differences
between the importing and exporting countries. Without process
adaptation and organizational change, consensus building processes
are unlikely to be helpful in resolving infrastructure disputes in
Japan, considering the breadth and depth of the contextual
differences between the US and Japan. Through in-depth interviews
with 40 Japanese practitioners and a close observation of a
consensus building pilot test for road intersection improvements in
Tokushima, Japan, the author exemplifies two streams of
transformation in such transfer. This book is not only for scholars
and practitioners of urban planning and dispute resolution working
internationally but also for those in the field of anthropology,
organizational theory, and Japanese studies.
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