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Riding Sunbeams, Chasing Moonbeams
If I were to say in this blog that I remain committed to the Smart Growth principles that regular readers are familiar with and then say that I thought they would be best achieved by pursuing policies like housing sprawl, motorway building, airport expansion and distribution shed sprawl, you might r...
Posted by Jon Reeds on 06 April 2020
Negotiating With Nature, Two Examples
In my previous blog on Nature and Negotiation, I described the process of negotiation recommended by Roger Fisher and William Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Since examples are helpful to see how this might work with Nature, here are a couple of illustrative cases.
Among the many responsibil...
Posted by Nigel Pearce on 30 March 2020
Nature And Negotiation
For too long humans have forgotten, or have failed to realise, that our relationship with Nature is based on negotiation.
Instead, we have treated this relationship as an imposition by one party, humanity, on the other, Nature, with no clear voice of its own. So, for the most part, we have not negot...
Posted by Nigel Pearce on 26 March 2020
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