Abstract

This chapter summarizes some of the major issues confronting collaborative governance across the chapters of this book. Using a peer review process involving the book’s authors and other researchers examining collaboration, the chapter presents a research agenda for collaboration. This agenda highlights the need for more longitudinal research, studies of politics and governance, work that addresses the art and nuance of collaborative processes, studies of the role of community and the public, research on the role of individual participants, studies examining science and problem complexity, research on the role of external pressures, and work that addresses issues of management relationships.