Archives by Tag 'stakeholder analysis-conflict assessment'

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 [...]

Baldwin Park Operable Unit Superfund Site Mediation Assessment (2006)

In July and August 2006, CONCUR was retained under a national contract with SRA international to conduct an assessment for USEPA and DOJ to evaluate the prospects for mediation to finalize cost recovery actions at the Baldwin Park Operable Unit (BPOU) Superfund site. CONCUR conducted a series of interviews with key parties including PRPs and [...]

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 [...]

The Online Dialogue on Conflict/Situation Assessment (2003-2004)

CONCUR, working with Raab Associates and the USIECR, created a project to advance thinking in both the use of conflict/situation assessments and the applicability of online dialogue tools. The Online Dialogue on Conflict/Situation Assessment was supported by the Hewlett Foundation, US EPA, and DOI, and took place in the first half of 2003. The first [...]

Lower Owens River Project (LORP) (2003-2004)

CONCUR designed and completed a Stakeholder Assessment for U.S. EPA, examining the potential to use a facilitation/mediation process to resolve a long-running 30 year dispute over water and wildlife resources between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), Inyo County, local and national environmental groups, the State of California, and Native American tribes.
The [...]

CALFED: Fostering and Monitoring Effective Urban Water Conservation Programs (2002)

CONCUR mediated a four-month-long, fast-track negotiation among urban water agencies, environmental groups and state and federal agencies that resulted in the unanimous adoption of a detailed framework for certifying statewide urban water conservation programs. The 2002 dialogue, which brought together nearly two dozen parties, focused on (1) defining a process to determine whether urban [...]