Overview
- The most powerful selling point for this book is the quality of Moore’s writing, her ability to communicate the intangible realities of the dynamics of people in conflict. Some of the cases (“Sheep in the Wilderness,” for example) are “famous” and will attract attention on their own
- Moore is widely known and respected as a professional mediator; she is one of the few whose careers have spanned the entire quarter century of the environmental dispute resolution field. She also has fans from her previous book. And she will be an enthusiastic participant in promotion activities
- The need for the wisdom and inspiration that this book offers will continue to pull readers. Moore’s practical help for resolving conflicts between people on environmental and other issues is a strong selling point that won’t become outdated for the foreseeable future
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About this book
In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spent the past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable. Here, she shares the ten most compelling stories of her career, offering insight and inspiration to anyone caught in a seemly hopeless dispute.
Moore has worked on wide-ranging issues—from radioactive waste storage to loss of traditional grazing lands—and with diverse groups, including ranchers, environmentalists, government agencies, and tribal groups. After decades spent at the negotiating table, she has learned that a case does not turn on facts, legal merit, or moral superiority. It turns on people.
This book should be especially appealing to anyone concerned with environmental conflicts; and also to students in environmental studies, political science, and conflictresolution, and to academics and professionals in mediation and conflict resolution fields.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Since the late 1980s Lucy has worked as a mediator, facilitator, trainer and consultant, specializing in natural resource and public policy disputes. She continues to work, as Lucy Moore Associates, with a diverse group of colleagues on both regional and national cases, often with a multi-cultural or tribal component. She has a credibility and depth of experience in Indian country rare in conflict resolution practitioners. Lucy regularly mentors those who might otherwise not have access to her field, believing that the future health of the profession depends on its diversity and accessibility.
Lucy lives in Santa Fe with her artist husband. Her memoir Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country, won Best Memoir from Women Writing the West in 2004. Lucy is a regular contributor to Backroads Radio, a program dedicated to original storytelling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Book Subtitle: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Authors: Lucy Moore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-412-3
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Island Press 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-412-3Published: 24 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 204
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Communication Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Pollution, general, Ecotoxicology