Published In

Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Subjects

Watershed ecology -- Pacific Northwest, Hydrodynamics

Abstract

The City of Portland and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service are working together, along with citizens, to formulate a comprehensive new policy to guide joint management of the Bull Run watershed at Mt. Hood National Forest. This process has brought about four decades of conflict, resulting from differences between the federal view of multiple use and the local view of exclusive use for producing high quality water. The new policy is being formulated by the City of Portland and the Forest Service through negotiation of a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding that structures the parties’ roles, responsibilities, business processes, and working relationships. In this research project, I will examine the roles of planners as either being mediators or negotiators on the conflict issue. More specifically, planners’ roles toward collective conflict issues in urban affairs will be reviewed and evaluated in my research.

Rights

© The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

DOI

10.17477/jcea.2016.15.2.211

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34227

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