Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management

Review: Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management By Julia M. Wondolleck and Steven L. Yaffee Reviewed by Donny Roush Idaho Environmental Education Association, USA Julia M. Wondolleck & Steven L. Yaffee. Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000. 277pp. ISBN 1-55963-462-6 (paper). US$25.00. Recycled, acid- free paper. During the last two decades, Wondolleck and Yaffee have examined the emergence of more than 200 collaborative groups working on natural resource issues. Their observations and the lessons they draw from them are brought together in this work. In it, they succeed in chronicling the…