Environmental Dispute Resolution: An Anthology of Practical Solutions

Environmental Dispute Resolution: An Anthology of Practical Experience provides comprehensive and thoughtful treatment of EDR for the serious practitioner and also practical guidance for those wishing to focus on particular aspects. This book provides a toolkit of diagnostics, systems, strategies and methodologies proven effective in diverse substantive contexts. Its chapters can be read in order or they can stand alone for the reader with a particular substantive or procedural focus.

The information in this book will be invaluable to anyone involved with environmental risk management, environmental management systems, environmental dispute resolution, or sustainable development system design and implementation.

Topics covered include:

- Practical framework for analyzing disputes
- The challenges of dispute resolution
- Advantages of mediation and arbitration
- Mediating with an environmental enforcement agency
- Settlement strategies for public disputes
- U.S. and U.K. trends in EDR
- Effective settlement advocacy in mass torts disputes
- Superfund cost recovery disputes
- Effective settlement advocacy in environmental insurance disputes
- Mediation in international environmental disputes
- Ethical issues in environmental alternative dispute resolution
- Managing conflict for improved EDR results