Archives by Tag 'joint fact-finding'

A New CONCUR White Paper - Some Observations from Our Mediated Cases: How Organizations and Relationships Can Transform to Implement New Environmental Policies

To document and learn from the variety of cases we facilitate and mediate, we at CONCUR regularly publish working papers, journal articles, and book chapters, as well as speak as conference presenters and guest lecturers.
CONCUR’s newest Working Paper collects personal reflections of Principals John Gamman and Scott McCreary, drawn from 20 years of mediating complex [...]

Abalone Advisory Group (Fall 2007-Present)

CONCUR is working with the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) staff to support the work of the San Miguel Island Abalone Fishery Advisory Group (AAG). The AAG is a stakeholder group representing the interests of commercial fishing, recreational diving, marine conservation, and fisheries science. Its mission is to recommend a limited range of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Water Resource Protection Collaborative Garners Awards (2002-2006)

The Santa Clara County Water Resources Protection Collaborative
CONCUR worked with a broad cross-section of interests in California’s Santa Clara County (“Silicon Valley”) over a four-year period (2002-2006) to develop and ratify a series of landmark agreements for protecting water resources, and particularly stream resources, in this large and complex County. The Santa Clara Valley Water [...]

Guest Lecture at Cal State University Monterey Bay, Graduate Seminar in Coastal Watershed Science and Policy (2006)

In October 2006, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary presented a guest lecture on his facilitation of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Central Coast Project at a graduate seminar at California State University Monterey Bay. His talk examined key process choices made and their relationships to outcomes achieved in the Central Coast study area, which culminated [...]

CALFED: Using Joint Fact-Finding to Resolve Long-Standing Disputes (1998-2005)

From 1998-2005, CONCUR organized, structured and facilitated several high-profile and technically complex independent review processes intended to help resolve several aspects of California’s long-standing water wars.  These independent review panels – undertaken as part of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, a state-federal initiative intended to resolve the state’s intertwined water supply reliability, water quality, levee system [...]

National Environmental and Public Policy Case Database (2004)

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary served on a Steering Committee for a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that examined the feasibility of creating a national data base of environmental and public policy mediated cases. This project had several intended products. They were: (1) to characterize and assess ways to overcome the barriers [...]

Headwaters Forest Water Quality Issues: Conflict Assessment and Independent Scientific Review, and Facilitated Watershed Working Group (2002-2003)

In 2002 and 2003, CONCUR carried out a series of assignments for the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (NCRWQCB) in support of resolving longstanding issues related to sediment impairment of water quality in five Humboldt County watersheds that are subject to logging by Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO).
CONCUR served as convenor and facilitator of [...]

2006 Northern California ADR Faculty Conference at Stanford Law School On March 25, 2006

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary gave a presentation on Teaching Environmental Policy Mediation to The 2006 Northern California ADR Faculty Conference at Stanford Law School. Scott outlined a set of organizing questions for teachers of public policy mediation to consider, and shared his first-hand experience in mediating two complex environmental policy cases and potential implications for [...]