Speaker: Rich Margerum, Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon
Over the past several decades, collaboration has increasingly been used to address complex and difficult environmental problems. In this era of partisanship and demagoguery, collaboration seems like a distant dream or naïve wish. In this talk, Margerum will discuss his book, Challenges of Collaborative Governance, which covers diverse perspectives on identifying difficulties and potential responses. Collaboration is more challenging than ever, but the fundamental concept of people from diverse perspectives focusing on commonly agreed problems is more essential than ever. We have work to do to make collaborative governance effective.
*Note the change in location: 126 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison. Use the Library Mall entrance, then follow directional signage to get to room 126.