Research & Evaluation

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In the past 30 years, environmental and public policy dispute resolution has emerged as a powerful way to devise practical solutions to real problems by harnessing the knowledge and insights of diverse stakeholders. Many thousands of cases have been mediated, representing a wide variety of environmental and public issues. Most states and federal agencies have used environmental dispute resolution processes in one or more administrative or judicial processes.

Despite the tremendous growth in the number of cases mediated and the beginnings of institutionalization in a variety of settings, however, the environmental dispute resolution field has done less well at documenting its successes and challenges and at using research to inform practice.