http://concurinc.com/wp Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:48:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our 2-day training course “Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements” will meet Wednesday-Thursday, March 7-8 2012 at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus in Berkeley, CA and today is the last day to register at the early-bird rate of $450! “Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements” is an intensive two-day workshop designed to meet the ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2012/01/31/jan-31-last-day-to-register-for-course-1-at-discounted-rate/ Our 2-day training course "Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements" will meet Wednesday-Thursday, March 7-8 2012 at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr campus in Berkeley, CA. Negotiation is an increasingly important part of the day-to-day work of many professionals active in the environment, energy, natural resource management, and land use planning fields. While you ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/12/13/concur-training-negotiating-effective-environmental-agreements-march-7-8-2012-enrollment-now-open/ Work to replace Seattle’s aging and at-risk elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct highway with a deep-bore tunnel continues to make important progress. Starting in November 2011, construction crews began demolishing an 1,100-foot stretch of the Alaskan Way Viaduct’s southern end – a key early milestone in the $4.2 billion project to replace ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/12/09/alaskan-way-viaduct-project-update-december-2011/ In July 2011, CONCUR facilitated a meeting of the NMFS False Killer Whale Take Reduction Team (Team) to review a proposed rule intended to reduce false killer whale bycatch in the Hawaii-based longline fleet. The three-day meeting, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, was focused primarily on briefing and seeking feedback from Team ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/11/16/false-killer-whale-take-reduction-team-meets-to-review-proposed-rule-july-2011/ CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated the September 2011 meeting of the National Marine Fisheries Services’ Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel, a 40-member panel that meets twice yearly in Silver Spring, Maryland, to advise the Agency on evolving fishing regulations. The Panel brings together representatives of commercial fishing, recreational ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/11/15/september-2011-highly-migratory-species-advisory-panel-meeting/ Building on the outcomes of a 2007 national workshop facilitated by CONCUR, NMFS has prepared a draft national policy for distinguishing whether injuries to marine mammals incidental to commercial fishing (such as when an animal is hooked or entangled) should be considered serious or non-serious. The NMFS Draft National ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/11/15/nmfs-draft-policy-guidance-for-marine-mammal-conservation/ CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks teamed with Consensus Building Institute Senior Associate Ona Ferguson to co-facilitate the Summit to Build Urban Coastal Resilience in New York, a day-long dialogue focused on identifying opportunities for increasing coastal resilience in New York State’s urban areas. The meeting, held October 5, 2011, ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/10/31/concur-co-facilitates-urban-coastal-resilience-summit-in-new-york-city/ CONCUR conducted a one-day workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii, focused on effective community participation in Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) efforts. The August 2011 workshop was presented by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC), one of eight regional fishery management councils tasked with developing management plans to ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/09/09/coastal-and-marine-spatial-planning-workshop-in-hawaii-august-2011/ Work to replace Seattle’s aging and at-risk elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct highway with a deep-bore tunnel took two more important steps forward this month as Seattle voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum in support of the project and federal highway officials gave final sign-off to the $4.2-billion initiative. The federal action – ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/08/24/alaskan-way-viaduct-project-update-august-2011/ As part of CONCUR’s periodic guest lectures at major universities, Senior Associate Bennett Brooks served as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in July 2011. Speaking to the graduate-level course, “Environmental Conflict Resolution Strategies,” taught by Adjunct Professor Allen Zerkin, Bennett’s presentation focused on strategies for folding complex and ... http://concurinc.com/wp/2011/08/23/guest-lecture-at-columbia-university/