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| Preface | |
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| The Promise and Challenge of Collaboration in Resource Management | |
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| Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future | |
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| Why Is Innovation Occurring? | |
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| A New Style of Resource Management | |
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| The Uses and Mechanisms of Collaboration | |
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| A Guide to Making Collaboration Work | |
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| Why Collaboration? | |
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| Building Understanding | |
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| Making Wise Decisions and Building Support for Them | |
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| Getting Work Done | |
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| Developing Agencies, Organizations, and Communities | |
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| The Challenge of Collaboration | |
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| The Basic Dilemma | |
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| Institutional and Structural Barriers | |
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| Barriers Due to Attitudes and Perceptions | |
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| Problems with the Process of Collaboration | |
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| Overcoming Barriers | |
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| Lessons from a Decade of People Working Together | |
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| Building on Common Ground | |
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| A Sense of Place or Community | |
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| Shared Problems or Fears | |
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| Shared Goals or Interests | |
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| Compatible Interests | |
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| Creating New Opportunities for Interaction | |
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| Working at Outreach through Communication | |
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| Establishing New Structures | |
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| Crafting Meaningful, Effective, and Enduring Processes | |
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| A Meaningful and Legitimate Process of Interaction | |
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| An Effective Process | |
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| An Enduring Process | |
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| Focusing on the Problem in New and Different Ways | |
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| A Willingness to Try New Approaches | |
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| A Holistic Perspective | |
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| Problem Focused, Not Bound by Positions or Procedures | |
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| Not Bound by Traditional Conceptions of Agency Roles | |
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| Learning Together | |
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| Bounding the Problem with Credible Information | |
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| Fostering a Sense of Responsibility and Commitment | |
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| Transforming "Them" to "Us" | |
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| Ownership of the Problem and the Process | |
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| Commitment | |
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| Fairness | |
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| Partnerships Are People | |
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| Shattering Misperceptions and Fostering Understanding | |
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| Building and Sustaining Relationships | |
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| Motivating Involvement | |
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| Cultural and Community Differences | |
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| A Proactive and Entrepreneurial Approach | |
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| Dedicated, Energetic Individuals | |
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| Proactive, Not Reactive | |
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| Taking Advantage of Existing Opportunities | |
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| Nothing Succeeds Like Success | |
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| Persistence Pays Off | |
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| Getting Help, Giving Help | |
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| Resource Mobilizing, Not Resource Constrained | |
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| Accessing Expertise and Ideas | |
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| Building Public and Political Support | |
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| Getting Help by Giving Help | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| A Primer for Agencies | |
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| Imagining Collaborative Possibilities | |
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| Enabling Employees to Be Effective at Collaboration | |
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| Encouraging the Development of Collaborative Relationships | |
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| Evaluating the Experience with Collaboration | |
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| Committing to the Process and Products of Collaboration | |
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| Ensuring Accountability | |
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| The Critics' Concerns | |
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| The Issue of Accountability | |
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| The Traditional Response | |
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| The Balance between Control and Flexibility | |
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| Promoting Accountable Collaboration | |
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| A Message to Individuals | |
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| Summary Advice | |
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| A Guide to Getting Started | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |