Poorer nations looking to the Golden State for ideas in dealing with vexing water problems should leapfrog over our tarnished, high-cost model of destroyed rivers, crumbling infrastructure, and contentious solutions to the mess.
Over more than a decade, The Forests Dialogue has brought together more than 2,500 leaders — including from corporations, government, NGOs, and local communities — to build trust and devise tangible solutions to contentious issues during a series of "initiatives" held across the planet.
When uncertainty is low and controversy is high, lawyers become more common, likely because they have skills in analyzing contentious issues and suggesting solutions; while internal legal staff may take the lead, firms sometimes hire external lawyers if the controversy arises from novel concerns.
As she detailed throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she believed ethics committees should provide a form of 'corporate decision-making' in which various professions and interest groups formulated acceptable solutions to contentious issues (Warnock, 1992, p. 31).
Although this helps action to be taken particularly in regulation, it also allowed more complex narratives to be ignored, and alternative solutions, more contentious and contested, to be avoided.
But whether creating segregated parks is the right solution is a contentious point.
With support from leadership, both sides could be spared a lengthy and contentious debate and craft a solution to fit Florida's needs.
Often, these debates are meant to be contentious and without a clear solution because innovation comes from great challenge," they told the 19 senators.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court demonstrated that even in these contentious times it can find solutions to practical problems on the basis of reasonable accommodation.
