Table 2.

The US case studies selected for devising the calibration rules (“Calibration”)

Cases	Sources	Brief description
Beartree Challenge Project	Forest Service (1993), Wondolleck and Yaffee (2000), Kemmis (2001)	An innovative partnership, designed to improve the ecological habitat of the grizzly bears without affecting logging in the region, and to solve the conflicts between the angry farmers and the pro-wildlife groups, made diverse actors collaborate on behalf of grizzly bear management
Quincy Library Group	Terhune and Terhune (1998), Wondolleck and Yaffee (2000), Bryan and Wondolleck (2002), Davies and White (2012), http://www.qlg.org/	A partnership started to bring together all the actors concerned about the effects on the local economy of a sharp decline in the timber harvest
Alewife Task Force	Susskind (1981), Susskind and Cruikshank (1987)	A consensus-building approach to advance a proposal about a regional transportation facility planned to be built in the heart of an environmentally sensitive wetland
Casco Bay Estuary Project	CBEP (1996), Grijze (2010)	A consensus-based planning process to develop comprehensive actions for the management of a watershed