An exciting book to read. It is an encouraging, optimistic, and extremely creative work that focuses on an issue that permeates the lives of any involved in government or anyone who has ever dealt with a governmental system.

An important step forward in the exploration of how supplemental approaches can involve a wider public in the kinds of problem-solving political processes that will produce change in their communities.

It is the thesis of this book, which I heartily endorse, that these not-in-my-backyard impasses can often be broken by a process of consensus building through negotiation, assisted by the likes of Larry Susskind....The book that he and Jeffrey Cruikshank have written vibrates and communicates, giving readers a whopping benefit-to-cost ratio.

A complement to Getting to Yes...shows how parties involved in public disputes over housing projects, public facilities, highways, health, or the environment...can use consensus building rather than the courts to reach agreement.