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Use of Joint Fact Finding in Science Intensive Policy Disputes, Part I >> Content Detail



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LEC #TOPICS
Theme A: The Challenge of using Scientific and Technical Information in Environmental Policy-Making
1Introduction and Overview
2Discussion of Readings
3Guest Participant: P. Patrick Leahy, Assoc. Director for Geology, USGS (Invited)
4-5Discussion of Readings
6Guest Participant: Stanley Ponce, Senior Advisor for Partnerships and Business Policy, USGS (Invited)
Theme B: Introduction and Development of the Joint Fact Finding Approach
7-11Discussion of Readings
12Natural Resource Management in Rural Eastern Oregon

Guest Participant: Robert Alverts, Science Advisor, Office of the Regional Biologist, USGS (Invited)

Guest Participant: Christine Turner, Research Geologist, USGS (Invited)
13Guest Participant: Michael Mery, Chair Tomales Bay Watershed Council (Invited; TBWC Embodies the Principles and Concepts Discussed in this Theme; the Importance of a Neutral Mediator)
14Framing a Joint Fact Finding Mission Statement in a Contested Ecosystem Management Situation
Theme C: Cape Wind Project
15Cape Wind Controversy and Wind Energy in General
16Current Status of Wind Power in General and Off Shore Wind Power in Particular
17NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard)
18Discussion of Readings
19Invited Guest Participant to Present the Overview of the wind Controversy
20Invited Guest Participant to Present Pro-View of the Controversy
21Invited Guest Participant to Present the Con-View of the Controversy
22Class Presentation

 








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