Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon

Perz’s colorful lived examples detail the challenges and advantages of collaboration across international and disciplinary borders. In his quest for meaningful collaboration Perz introduces the reader to an astonishing array of useful literatures. A must read for those interested in overcoming the complex environmental challenges of today! -- David Salisbury, University of Richmond Writing with uncommon honesty and humor, Perz unveils the many devils in the details of cross-boundary collaboration, while convincingly arguing that the accelerated learning it provides builds valuable capacity to address the complex global challenges of today and tomorrow.  He draws on diverse academic and policy literatures, as well as dozens of practical vignettes, to illustrate the strategic practices necessary to manage key issues in collaboration—inequality and politics; uncertainty and surprise; personality and leadership—in order to achieve the considerable benefits of crossing disciplinary, organizational, and national borders. -- Marianne Schmink, University of Florida