Resources

Handbooks

Alliance for Regional Stewardship, Monograph Series (11 monographs from 2000 to 2006)

American Planning Association, Regional Planning (Chapter 6, Growing Smart Legislative Handbook, 2002) [PDF].

Suzanne D. Cartwright and Victoria R. Wilbur, Translating a Regional Vision into Action (Urban Land Institute Policy Forum, March 8, 2005) [PDF].

John Parr, et al., Guide to Successful Local Government Collaboration in America's Regions (National League of Cities, 2006) [PDF].

Web Sites

Megaregions

America 2050, a joint venture of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Regional Plan Association
www.america2050.org

Watersheds

Transboundary Freshwater Disputes Data Base
www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/

Western Water Policy Review Commission
www.den.doi.gov/wwprac/

Ecosystems

Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration Initiatives
www.nemw.org/restoration

Ecosystem Management Initiative
www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt

National Conservation System Foundation
www.ourconservationlegacy.org

Ecological Subregions of the United States
www.fs.fed.us/lan/pubs/ecoregions

Metropolitan Areas

APA Regional and Intergovernmental Planning
www.intergovernmental.homestead.com

National Association of Regional Councils
www.narc.org

Alliance for Regional Stewardship
www.regionalstewardship.org

California Center for Regional Leadership
www.calregions.org

Other Useful Web Sites

Network on Building Resilient Regions
www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu/brr/01!BRRabout.html

Place Matters
www.placematters.com

Bibliography

The following bibliography includes some of the most important literature on regional collaboration. If you additional literature that you would like us to consider, please send it to CNREP.

Regional Collaboration

Gilles Paquet, The New Geo-Governance: A Baroque Approach (University of Ottawa Press, 2005).

Innes, Judith and Jane Rongerude. 2005. Collaborative regional initiatives: civic entrepreneurs work to fill the governance gap. The James Irvine Foundation.

Porter, Douglas R. and Allan D. Wallis. 2002. Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

McKinney, Matthew, Craig Fitch, and Will Harmon. 2002. Regionalism in the west: An inventory and assessment. Public Land and Resources Law Review: 101-191.

Kemmis, Daniel. 1999. Learning to think like a region. Changing Landscapes. Inaugural Issue.

Dodge, William R. 1996. Regional excellence: governing together to compete globally and flourish locally. National League of Cities.

Robbins, William G., Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross, eds. 1983. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.

Joel Garreau, The Nine Nations of North America (Avon Books, 1981).

Derthick, Martha. 1974. Between state and nation: regional organizations of the United States. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Jensen, Merrill, ed. 1951. Regionalism in America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Powell, J. W. 1890. Institutions for the arid lands. The Century Magazine Vol. 40: 111-116.

Megaregions

Robert E. Lang and Arthur C. Nelson, "The Rise of the Megapolitans," (Planning, January 2007)

Carbonell, Armando, and Robert D. Yaro. 2005. American spatial development and the new megalopolis. Land Lines 17(2): 1-4;

Lang, Robert E. and Dawn Dhavale. 2005. America's megapolitan areas. Land Lines 17(3): 1-4.

Watersheds

Great Lakes Regional Collaboration. 2005. Great Lakes regional collaboration strategy: to restore and protect the Great Lakes. Glen Lake, MI: Great Lakes Regional Collaboration.

Kenney, Douglas S. 1994. Coordination mechanisms for the control of interstate water resources: a synthesis and review of the literature. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

Thorson, John E. 1994. River of promise, river of peril: The politics of managing the Missouri River. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.

Foster, Charles H.W. 1990. What makes regional organizations succeed or fail? Paper delivered at the Joint Symposium of the American and Canadian Water Resources Associations. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Donahue, Michael J. 1987. Alternative institutional arrangements for Great Lakes management: An analysis of generic institutional forms. In Institutional arrangements for Great Lakes management: past practices and future alternatives. Michigan Sea Grant College Program.

Ecosystems

Andrea K. Gerlak and Tanya Heikkila, "Comparing Collaborative Mechanisms in Large-Scale Ecosystem Governance," Natural Resources Journal 46(2006): 657-707.

Tony Prato and Dan Fagre, eds., Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: Science, Policy, and Management for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (Resources for the Future, 2007).

Chester, Charles C. 2006. Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World. Island Press.

White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. 2005. Reaching across boundaries to promote shared governance. A topic compilation from conference breakout session. http://conservation.ceq.gov/index.html

Bergmann, Stefan A., and John C. Bliss. 2004. Foundations of Cross-Boundary Cooperation: Resource Management at the Public-Private Interface. Society and Natural Resources. Vol. 17: 377-393.

Keiter, Robert B. 2003. Keeping faith with nature: ecosystems, democracy, and America's public lands. Yale University Press.

Foster, Charles H.W. Managing resources as whole systems: A primer for managers. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (undated).

Foster, Charles. 2002. Reviving environmental regionalism. Land Lines 14(4): 7-10.

Richard L. Knight and Peter B. Landres, eds., Stewardship Across Boundaries (Island Press, 1998).

Yaffee, Steven L. 1996. Ecosystem management in the United States: an assessment of current experience. The Wilderness Society.

The Keystone Center. 1996. The Keystone Center national policy dialogue on ecosystem management. The Keystone Center.

GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. 1994. Ecosystem Management: Additional actions needed to adequately test a promising approach. GAO/RCED-94-111.

Sax, Joseph L., and Robert B. Keiter. 1987. Glacier National Park and its neighbors: A study of federal interagency relations. Ecology Law Quarterly Vol. 14, No. 2: 207-263.

Metropolitan Areas

Susskind, Lawrence and Merrick Hoben, 2004. Making regional policy dialogues work: A credo for metro-scale consensus building. Temple Environmental Law & Technology Journal Vol. XXII, No. 2.

Foster, Kathryn. 2001. Regionalism on purpose. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Calthorpe, Peter, and William Fulton. 2001. The regional city: planning for the end of sprawl. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Davidson, William C. and Marcus A. McAskin, eds. 2001. Regional land use planning in the West: case studies and lessons learned. Denver, CO: The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, University of Denver.

Seltzer, Ethan. 2000. Regional planning in America: updating earlier visions. Land Lines 12(6): 4-6.

Joseph DiMento and LeRoy Graymer, eds. Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to LULUs, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1991).