Archives by Tag 'stakeholder analysis-conflict assessment'
Situation Assessment, Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Pacific County, Washington (2001-2002)
CONCUR was retained by the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, with the support of EPA Region X, to conduct a Situation Assessment to analyze prospects for future collaboration between Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe and community of Tokeland to address issues related to water quality, coastal erosion, water supply and community development. The objective was to take stock [...]
Ecological Risk Assessment Procedures at Vandenberg Air Force Base (2001)
CONCUR was retained by the US Air Force and DTSC in the summer of 2001 to design and mediate a dispute resolution process to get site remediation efforts at Vandenberg back on track. For several years, the California State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has been working with Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in [...]
CALFED: Devising an Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Program (1998-2001)
Between 1998 and 2001, CONCUR successfully mediated a dialogue among agricultural, environmental and agency interests working to structure a program that elicits and assures efficient agricultural water management practices. The effort, known as the Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Steering Committee and part of the federal-state initiative known as the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, helped resolve longstanding [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Electric Power Research Institute, Strategic Planning
CONCUR conducted a strategic planning effort to evaluate the prospects for using mediation techniques to resolve low-level waste siting disputes. Specific emphasis was given to the value of a structured stakeholder analysis, and the conduct of a joint fact-finding process to distill and summarize technical information.
Seminar on Public Participation in Democratic Design for the Pacific Rim (1999)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary participated as one of a group of 30 scholars and practitioners from the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong engaged in ongoing cross-cultural dialogue examining ways to strengthen democratic design making in the Pacific Rim. The second annual conference took place in Saitama, Japan. Participants included academics from UC Berkeley and [...]
Training and Coaching for Philippines-Based NGOs
CONCUR provided training and coaching for two separate teams of Philippines-based NGOs, one from Co-Train and one from the other from Tanggol Kalikasan/Haribon Foundation. The sessions focused on the potential use and application of ADR techniques to environmental disputes in the Philippines. Both workshops took place at CONCUR’s Berkeley offices, and emphasized the integration of [...]
Environmental Negotiation Training in Bulgaria/Hungary
In close collaboration with Partners for Democratic Change, CONCUR designed and a series of training courses on environmental negotiation in Nosvaj, Hungary, Bourgas, Bulgaria and Haskovo, Bulgaria. The courses were designed to introduce senior government officials and NGO leaders in these newly democratic countries to alternative styles of mediation, to demonstrate how to create credible [...]