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Collaborative Planning and Management
:Why has collaboration emerged?
Objectives:
Discuss historical reasons for emergence of collaboration Put into context of alternative governance arrangements
Preparation
No supplies Blog: Traditional top-down models are often contrasted with the more deliberative and collaborative models of governance. Think about the area of governance you know the best: How has the nature of problems changed? How has society changed? How has law and governance changed? Which ways are these changes pushing governance?
Lecture Overview Timing Topic Sub-topics Notes 10 Introduction (^)
30 Models of governance (^) More centralized
More collaborative,
30 Trends related to governance
Fields of interest Identify trends
Pre-assignment may help May need to present for some classes 10 Examples of Trends (^) Present and relate to their themes Discuss examples
80 1 hr and 20 minutes
I. Introduction
A. Announcements
B. Overview
1. Discuss changing nature of governance
2. Discuss why collaboration has emerged
II. Models of governance
Use this discussion to set up two alternative governance approaches and discuss the pros and
cons of each approach
A. More centralized, top-down approach
1. What are the positive attributes of this approach?
a) Difficult problems need strong leadership b) Central decisions diverts pressure from locals
2. What are the negative attributes of this approach?
a) Problems have changed b) Central decision making is not always good
B. More collaborative, diffuse approach
1. What are the positive attributes of this approach?
a) Includes more perspectives and leads to better outcomes b) Less conflict c) More support for implementation
2. What are the negative attributes of this approach?
a) Low hanging fruit b) Too focused on voluntary action c) Powerful don’t give up power
C. Hybrid
1. Notes
a) Collaboration often sits besides regulation b) Big agencies find it hard to delegate c) Interest groups like firm policies and policy goals d) A lot of transaction costs with collaboration
2. Discussion
III. CLASS DISCUSSION: Governance Trending
Lecture Notes:
Depending on the diversity of the class in terms of their interest areas—this could be a whole class discussion or broken into small groups Students may be better able to discuss this if prepared with a blog or thinking assignment Undergraduate classes or those with less experience in governance and policy: this section may need to be skipped
A. What are some fields that interest you?
1. Pollution control
1. How are trends pushing governance one way or the other?
—or—
2. What trends are pushing for more collaboration? More
centralized approaches?
VI. Examples of Trends on Governance
Lecture Notes
These can be used as an example to kick start discussion For undergraduate or less experienced classes—this can be used to frame discussion
A. Diffusion of problems
1. Example 1: Water pollution
a) Early years most of problem was caused by point sources b) Now mostly non-point sources (60%)
2. Example 2: Air pollution
a) Early focus was on stationary sources b) Focus is now on mobile sources
3. Discussion
B. Severity of problems
1. Example 1: Natural disasters
2. Example 2: Transportation
a) More drivers and highways b) Limited ability to keep expanding
3. Discussion
C. Partisan politics
1. Example 1: Health care policy
2. Example 2: Greenhouse gas emissions
3. Discussion
D. Litigation and legal challenges
1. Example 1: Endangered Species Act
2. Example 2: Forest management
3. Discussion
E. Complexity of governance
1. Example 1: Metro regions—transportation and air
2. Example 2: Social welfare
3. Discussion
F. Ideological debates
1. Example 1: Non-point source pollution
a) How do you regulate 100,000 people? b) Need other systems to control pollution
2. Example 2: Regional Visioning Projects
a) Only a few states/regions have gone regulatory b) Increasing recognition that problems need to be addressed c) Using a collaborative approach (visioning) (1) Denver Metro Vision
(2) Atlanta Vision 2020 (3) Utah Vision
VII. Conclusions and Synthesis
A. Other issues affecting these trends?
Lecture Note: Discuss or review with class
1. Willingness or not to regulate
2. Budgets, cuts and programs
3. Who is in power
4. Bipartisan vs Partisan
B. What do you think are the implications of these trends?
Lecture note: Theme of the class to reinforce here is that collaboration as a concept may not last
or may change in name and approach, but the underlying trends suggest an ongoing need for
collaborative-type models. A key point is that it is typically not an alternative but part of a
governance system.
1. Nature of many problems are changing
a) Not just a management problem b) Problems themselves have changed
2. Collaboration may be a current fad in governance
a) Name or terminology may change b) May fall out of some areas c) Many underlying trends won’t go away
3. Collaboration is not replacing other mechanisms
a) Still have pollution control permits b) Issues like ESA help drive collaboration c) Legal conflict help force people to discuss/negotiate
4. As an alternative it is vulnerable
a) Need support from top to allow it to happen b) Top leaders not always supportive (1) National environmental groups (2) Lack of support in Oregon (3) Klamath farmers direct line to the VP
