A Better Way
Shanley recommends providing for a dispute review board in contract documents as a way of avoiding long and costly litigation or arbitration as a result of disputes. A dispute review board...
Conflict Over Urban Water: An Economic Perspective
Water conflicts in the East are associated primarily with infrequent proposals by public water systems to move water across political boundaries. Also, most conflicts arise among political...
Conflict Management Task Committee Approach
The Task Committee on Conflict Management (coordinated by the Social and Environmental Objectives and Impacts Committee, WRPMD), was established to develop guidelines for use by water...
The Conservation Foundation's Handbook on Resolving Water Resource Disputes
As part of a cooperative effort with the ASCE's Water Resources Planning and Management Division, The Conversation Foundation is working to develop a handbook for resolving...
Contract Documents: Lessons from Litigation
Perfect contract documents and a flawless design are uncommon. Given the complexity of many construction projects and the advances in technology, it is not surprising that contract language,...
Groundwater, Technology, and Society
Water management is a multi-dimensional process. Its measures are technology, institutions and society's desires. For a management strategy to be implementable, it must accommodate...
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Water Resources Management
In recent years a variety of techniques have been advocated to resolve natural resource conflicts. These approaches have collectively been termed 'Alternative Dispute Resolution'...
The Problem with Public Works
This article discusses the reasons that public projects take longer to complete than private projects do. Unencumbered by the laws, regulations and political conflicts that slow public...
Drilled Piers in the Piedmont?Minimizing Contractor-Engineer-Owner Conflicts
Drilled piers are used extensively in the Piedmont Physiographic Region, deriving support primarily from end-bearing on hard rock. Cost extras and contractor-engineer-owner conflicts are...
Port Re-creation for Coastal Zone Utilization
In the present paper a planning method for port re-creation is discussed and a method to choose the best alternative under conflict situation is proposed. An example of re-creation planning...
Optimal Process of the Development of the Residential Area on the Coastal Zone
The concentration of population and assets through various types of development in the coastal zone in Japan is progressing rapidly at present. The conditions of the sea environment are...
Federal-State Conflicts & A 12-Mile Territorial Sea
The growing tension between coastal states and the federal government can be lessened by amending the 1953 Submerged Lands Act to give coastal states a 12-mile territorial sea. For equitable...
Sivunniuq: Planning Together in Northwest Alaska
Sivunniuq applies the traditional approach to planning and decision making. Its primary purpose is to encourage early and meaningful local involvement in project and plan development activities....
Resolving Fisheries Conflicts in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Coast Conservation Act appears to be the strongest piece of legislation governing the use of coastal resources among their world countries. The implementation...
Resource Planning and Management Committees: A Tool for Intergovernmental Coordination and Conflict Resolution
This article analyzes the role of resource planning and management committees as key intergovernmental coordination and conflict resolution devices in Florida's Area of Critical...
Space/Use Conflicts Between the Oil & Gas and Fishing Industries
An overview of space/use conflicts between the oil and gas and commercial fishing industries is presented. Also discussed is an array of solutions to mitigate or eliminate those conflicts....
Renewing a Federal/State Partnership Under the CZMA
The case of Exxon v. Fischer has established an ominous precedent for the authority of states to resolve oil and fishing industry conflicts. In a narrow interpretation of the Coastal Zone...
Co-Existence of Oil and Commercial Fishing Industries: Methods of Resolving Potential Conflicts
This paper describes efforts to resolve potential operational conflicts between the oil and fishing industries in Alaska, specifically, the formation and activities of an organization...
Resolving Permit Conflicts in Oregon's Coastal Zone
Oregon has a complex system of federal, state and local government agency planning and permitting in its coastal zone. The policies, standards and permits of these agencies frequently...
Multiple-Interest Problem Solving at Cascade Ranch
The State Coastal Conservancy successfully resolved a series of related coastal resource issues in the Cascade Ranch project in San Mateo County on the California coast. This project,...
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