The Cooperation Challenge of Economics and the Protection of Water Supplies: A Case Study of the New York City Watershed Collaboration

by Joan Hoffman

Book Overview

How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City's watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of pollution, encouraging environmentally compatible economic development, and coping with conflicts that are part of the collaboration process. It also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415516862
• ISBN13: 9780415516860
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"