Archive for 'International Projects' Category

UN CEO Water Mandate Initiative (March 2008)

CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated the inaugural meeting of the CEO Water Mandate, a United Nations-sponsored initiative that brings together business leaders and the broader international community with a focus on improving strategies and efforts to address the emerging global water crisis.
The initiative focuses on six main topic areas: direct operations; supply chain [...]

Strategic Advice/Stakeholder Assessment on Proposed Alcoa Aluminum Smelter for Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Management Agency (2006)

CONCUR was a member of a team retained to provide advice to the Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Management Authority (EMA) on the review of a major aluminum smelter proposal. Alcoa applied to the EMA for a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) to build an aluminum smelter and associated facilities. The proposed smelter would be located [...]

Presentation at the 2007 Comparative Public Conflict Resolution conference in Asia

In November 2007, Scott McCreary was one of two US contributors to an international workshop in Seoul, Korea entitled “Comparative Public Conflict Resolution: Development of public policy consensus building in theory and practice in Asia“.  Scott presented his paper “Reflecting on Experiences of Introducing Western Dispute Resolution Techniques: Trial Innovation and Adaptive Learning“. The convenor [...]

Okavango Watershed and Basin “Sharing Water” Project in Southern Africa (2004)

CONCUR served as facilitator and trainer for this US-AID funded initiative, lead by the Berkeley-based Natural Heritage Institute, aimed at strengthening the information base to support transboundary natural resource planning for the Okavango-Kubango River system. With a watershed rising in Angola, the Okavango flows through Namibia and terminates in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Other [...]

Strategic Planning and Organizational Capacity-Building for Federal Agency Partners in the Pacific Islands (2003-2004)

CONCUR provided strategic planning and facilitation services to assist key governmental agencies to form a stronger partnership in the vast Pacific Islands Region. In the spring of 2003, the Pacific Islands Region was established as an autonomous region within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The establishment of the new region created a strong [...]

Facilitated Dialogue on International Marine Turtle Conservation (2003)

CONCUR was retained by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to help design and facilitate an International Technical Expert Workshop on Marine Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries. The workshop - which took place in Seattle, Washington from February 11-13, 2003 - brought together fisheries managers, leading researchers, environmentalists, and fishing industry representatives from 19 countries [...]

Restoration Concepts for the Tigris-Euphrates Marshlands (2003)

CONCUR worked on this innovative initiative, sponsored by the Iraq Foundation, the U.S. State Department and other funders. The aim of the project, known as “Eden Again”, is to outline scientifically sound concepts that can be used to facilitate the restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands-including the Hammar, Haweizeh, and central marsh– which are located within [...]

Using Independent Scientific Review to Strengthen Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in the Pacific Rim (2001)

Scott McCreary presented at the Third Conference on Participatory Design and Planning for the Pacific Rim Ching-Be, Matzu Island, Taiwan, May 28-30, 2001. This publication in the conference proceedings discusses how the rapid pace of economic growth and urbanization in the Pacific Rim has led to a growing strain upon ecological and cultural [...]

Facilitated Dialogue on International Fisheries Management: Longline Fishing, Seabird and Sea Turtle Mortality (2002)

CONCUR was retained by the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council to help design and facilitate the Second Annual International Fisher’s Forum (IFF2), held in Honolulu Hawaii November 18-22, 2002. Participants included over 200 representatives of the fishing, scientific, and NGO community from 28 nations, including the U.S, New Zealand, Australia, Micronesia, Chile, Argentina, Japan, and [...]

Electric Power Research Institute, Strategic Planning

CONCUR conducted a strategic planning effort to evaluate the prospects for using mediation techniques to resolve low-level waste siting disputes. Specific emphasis was given to the value of a structured stakeholder analysis, and the conduct of a joint fact-finding process to distill and summarize technical information.