Archives by Tag 'tribal'

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand (1990)

The CONCUR team has completed several initiatives in New Zealand. In 1990, the Ministry for the Environment brought John Gamman and Scott McCreary to New Zealand to present a three course series to senior resource planners, officials in the private sector, and Maori leaders in workshops convened in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. This was followed [...]

Neutral Fact-Finding Effects of Oil and Gas Exploration in the Ecuadorian Oriente (1992)

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary teamed with three colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley to conduct an independent review of ARCO’s oil and gas exploration in the Ecuadorian Oriente. The review, jointly commissioned by proponents and critics of oil exploration, focused initially on the adequacy of the environmental documentation, was quickly broadened to include [...]