Archives by Tag 'biodiversity'
California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative South Coast Study Region (2008 – present)
CONCUR is the lead facilitator for the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative’s Regional Stakeholder Group (RSG) in its Southern California Study Region. The MLPA provides that California will establish a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2011. The MLPA pays particular attention to protecting representative examples of important habitats and ensuring that [...]
Carpe Diem - Western Water & Climate Change (2007-present)
CONCUR provided strategic planning advice to the kick off meeting of the Carpe Diem - Western Water & Climate Change project. The project is an alliance of experts and decision makers committed to addressing the unprecedented challenge of climate change impacts on western water resources. By linking leaders and incubating new initiatives and [...]
Guadalupe River Flood Control Project: Adaptive Management Team update (April 2009)
As part of the agreement mediated for the Guadalupe River Flood Control Project, parties formed an Adaptive Management Team, which commits to meet annually to review the results and effectiveness of mitigation measures implemented to date.
This year, on April 29th and 30th CONCUR Associate Rebecca Bryson facilitated the meeting. Parties included the SCVWD, the Guadalupe-Coyote [...]
California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative - North Central Coast Regional Stakeholder Group (2006-2007)
CONCUR helped to facilitate this second phase of the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative in 2006-2007. In completing their work, the North Central Coast Regional Stakeholder Group (NCCRSG) worked closely with two other bodies - a Blue Ribbon Task Force of senior policy advisors and a Science Advisory Team - to inform the decisions [...]
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 [...]