environmental disputes

The following items are tagged environmental disputes.

Patrick Field

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Patrick Field is Managing Director at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Senior Fellow at the University of Montana Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. As one of the country’s most experienced group facilitators, Mr. Field has helped thousands of stakeholders reach agreement on organizational mergers,

How to Lighten Your Burdens

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For decades, General Electric (GE) and the Environmental Protection Agency sparred over who would pay for the removal of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, that GE had discharged into New York’s Hudson River, a cleanup project expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. In October 2005, the two sides came to an agreement.

Susan Podziba & Associates

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Susan Podziba & Associates

21 Orchard Road
Brookline, MA 02445
contact@podziba.com

Tel: (617)738-5320
Fax: (617)738-6911

http://www.podziba.com

Contact: Susan Podziba
susan@podziba.com

Susan Podziba & Associates conducts processes that enable government to engage with stakeholders to resolve complex public policy questions and conflicts. SP&A designs unique processes to address seemingly impossible situations, guides complex multi-stakeholder deliberations to create actionable solutions, and works in diverse subject areas

Negotiating the Complex: Policymaking Across Sectors

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Negotiating the Complex
RealPlayer Recommended (download here)
Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Presenter:
Susan L. Podziba

Industry, government, and civil society are becoming increasingly aware that the search for solutions to complex public policy challenges requires their cooperation in a process that draws out the collective wisdom of a diverse group to reach a common public goal. During the final PON