Consensus Building and Complex Adaptive Systems
Journal of the American Planning Association
Judith E. Innes, David E. Booher
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Innes and Booher propose evaluating collaborative planning through a complex adaptive systems lens—showing how authentic dialogue among interdependent stakeholders can produce system learning, innovative agreements, and network capacity beyond lowest-common-denominator outcomes.
Canonical source in our Research Library — supports Pathway Discernment and Coalition / community consensus. We cite the publisher/DOI directly; recommendation is independent of any commission.
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