Archives by Tag 'biodiversity'

MLPA Central Coast Regional Stakeholder Group Facilitation Completed (2005-2006)

In 2005-2006, CONCUR facilitated the MLPA Central Coast Regional Stakeholder Group (CCRSG), a 32-member group charged with developing alternate packages of Marine Protected Areas for the region between Pigeon Point and Point Conception. The aim of the program is to build a statewide network to protect biological diversity and rebuild depleted fish stocks, and create [...]

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (October 2007)

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary facilitated a deliberation of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) on October 25-26, 2007 at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School. Scott worked alongside Bill Hull of CGBD and Steve Whitney of the Bulllitt Foundation, the co-conveners the meeting. The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) is a grantmakers forum [...]

EPA Climate Change Panel: Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services (2001)

CONCUR contributed to a research initiative launched by the National Center for Atmospheric Research at USEPA Headquarters, the Tellus Institute, and other cooperators to examine effects of global climate change on ecosystem goods and services provided by the San Francisco Bay Delta watershed. These goods and services are “processes and attributes of ecosystems that help [...]

CALFED: Supporting Ecosystem Restoration (1997-2000)

CONCUR worked with the CALFED Bay-Delta Program on two separate occasions to foster the broadly supported development and implementation of the Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP), one of the largest environmental planning initiatives ever undertaken in North America.
In 1997, CONCUR helped design and facilitate the Independent Review Panel on Ecosystem Restoration, which critically reviewed the draft [...]

Comprehensive Management Plan for the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve and Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge, San Diego, California (1998)

Tijuana Estuary, on the US-Mexico border, consists of an ecologically rich mosaic of wetland habitats and uplands. CONCUR was retained by the California Department of State Parks and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare a joint management plan. CONCUR convened a working task force in an interactive process to develop each chapters of [...]

CALFED Bay-Delta Program Design and Stakeholder Involvement (1996)

Starting in 1996, CONCUR worked closely with senior staff of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program to help design stakeholder involvement processes to support the ground-breaking state-federal initiative intended to broker a long-term solution for the Delta that improves water supply reliability, levee system integrity, water quality and ecosystem restoration.  CONCUR’s work for the Program, a joint [...]

Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA)

CONCUR facilitated a 45-member dialogue charged with devising a locally preferred alternative for flood control that integrates habitat restoration and recreation components. Participants ratified detailed proceedings addressing bank protection, levee stabilization, planning for alternate flow levels, hydraulic mitigation, and floodway management.

Conference on Planning for the Future of the Tokyo Bay Wetlands (1999)

In June 1999, Dr. McCreary made the lead presentation at a public conference on the Future of the Wetlands of Tokyo Bay, sponsored by Chiba University in Chiba, Japan. His presentation examined the history of planning for the wetlands of the San Francisco Bay. The one-day conference attracted about 150 people, mostly citizens and associates [...]

Briefings for USAID (1990-1991)

Principal John Gamman lead a series briefings for senior US AID officials, building on the work of his dissertation research examining the relationship between consensus building techniques and the support of sustainable development policies and natural resource policy reforms.   Results were tied to USAID projects on implementing policy change and environmental training programs.

Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand (1990)

The CONCUR team has completed several initiatives in New Zealand. In 1990, the Ministry for the Environment brought John Gamman and Scott McCreary to New Zealand to present a three course series to senior resource planners, officials in the private sector, and Maori leaders in workshops convened in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. This was followed [...]