Archives by Tag 'Caribbean'

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 [...]

Caribbean Institute for Resource Management (1987)

In addition to his work in St. Kitts-Nevis, Dr. Gamman was also hired by the Caribbean Institute for Resource Management, U.S. Virgin Islands, to provide support for university faculty members throughout the Caribbean region, to show them how to incorporate negotiation and environmental dispute resolution cases into existing curricula for natural resource management courses. This [...]

Natural Resource Management Project in St. Kitts-Nevis (OECS) (1987)

Dr. Gamman was retained by the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Natural Resource Management Project to develop and present the Plan of Operations for St. Kitts-Nevis National Coastal Resource Management Project. While presenting the results of this work in the Caribbean, John acted as liaison between OECS and the St. Kitts/Nevis government, while coordinating several [...]

Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental Policymaking (1994)

CONCUR Principal John Gamman conducted field work in St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Barbados to evaluate the political decision-making around development projects in tropical environments and to examine why the lending policies of international donor agencies often fail in developing countries. The research was published in 1994 in his book entitled Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental [...]