Archives by Tag 'watershed'
Senior Mediator Panel – University of Oregon Environmental Dispute Resolution Course
In February 2012, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary served on a Panel of Senior Mediators moderated by Steve Greenwood and John Hummel at the University of Oregon Law School. The topics addressed included the professional pathways that lead to careers in environmental mediation, emerging capacities for new practitioners, and the engagement of environmental justice issues in [...]
CONCUR Guest Lectures at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design: 2009 and 2010
In 2009 and again in 2010, Scott McCreary presented guest lectures on CONCUR’s work in environmental conflict resolution to graduate courses in the UC Berkeley Departments of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and City Planning. Both presentations stressed the linkage between the theory of principled negotiation and mutual gains bargaining and their practical application in [...]
“Conflict Resolution Day” Presentation at EPA Region 2 (October 15, 2009)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Senior Associate Bennett Brooks gave a presentation October 15, 2009, to attorneys and program staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, the regional office covering New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The presentation, organized by Region 2 ADR coordinator Joseph Siegel to coincide [...]
New CONCUR Fact Sheet on Watershed Planning
CONCUR has prepared a new fact sheet focused on our watershed planning experience and expertise (download PDF). Watershed planning touches on a broad range of issues including local land use policies, stream protection concerns, restoration goals, flood control, and water quality. The planning framework can be transboundary and address implications for climate change adaptation, or [...]
UN CEO Water Mandate Initiative (March 2008)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated the inaugural meeting of the CEO Water Mandate, a United Nations-sponsored initiative that brings together business leaders and the broader international community with a focus on improving strategies and efforts to address the emerging global water crisis. The initiative focuses on six main topic areas: direct operations; supply chain [...]
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 [...]
Okavango Watershed and Basin “Sharing Water” Project in Southern Africa (2004)
CONCUR served as facilitator and trainer for this US-AID funded initiative, lead by the Berkeley-based Natural Heritage Institute, aimed at strengthening the information base to support transboundary natural resource planning for the Okavango-Kubango River system. With a watershed rising in Angola, the Okavango flows through Namibia and terminates in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Other [...]
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 [...]
‘Collaboration Network’ Online Discussion Forum Pilot Phase Completed (2004)
CONCUR worked with the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Office of Statewide Initiatives and UC Davis to develop and facilitate a private online discussion forum for Water Board staff called the Collaboration Network, or CollabNet. CollabNet was designed to complement the Water Board Training Academy’s four existing courses on collaboration, promote intra-agency discussion and [...]
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 [...]