CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008
8:00am – 12:00pm Training Sessions
1:00pm – 5:00pm Training Sessions
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Opening Plenary Session: Welcome to ECR2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions
- 7 Years On: Lessons and Reflections on Use of Evaluation Findings ?
(Andy Rowe, Elena Gonzalez, Robert Jones, Patricia Orr)
- Collaboration: Incorporating Large-Scale Citizen Deliberation into Environmental Conflict Resolution?
(Janet Fiero, Evan Paul)
- Collaborative Modeling: Incorporating New Technologies into the Collaborative ?
(Margaret McCaffrey, Jimmie D. Chew, George Leavesley, Christine Turner)
- Go Fish - The Long Strange Saga of Northern Pike Eradication in Lake Davis?
(Dave Ceppos, Julie Cunningham, Jodie Monaghan, Ed Pert)
- Lessons Learned From Our Organizational Development (OD) Colleagues?
(David Batson, Cindy Cook, Susan Sherry)
- Mental Model Approach to Understanding Public Participation Process Preferences and Outcome Expectations ?
(Steve Ackerlund, Robin Saha)
- NEPA Comment Analysis: Formalized War or Opportunity to Increase Capacity? ?
(Carie Fox, Richard A. Fairbanks, Gary Light, Michael Mortimer, Dick Prather)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Networking Boxed Lunch / ECR Public Policy Forum
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Sessions
- Dynamics and Outcomes of ECR: New Research on Change, Motivations and Actionable Results ?
(E. Franklin Dukes, William Hall, Bill Leach, Debra Whitall)
- Tapping into the Multiplicity of Diverse Approaches for Collaboration on Public Issues: Making Strategic Choices?
(Suzanne Orenstein, Jonas Minton, Evan Paul, Susan Springer)
- Tribal and Federal Government Consultation: Realizing the Possibilities and Potential for Effective Consultation?
(Sarah Palmer, David Grachen, Valerie Hauser, MaryAnn Naber, Brian Patterson)
- How “Go Slow” to “Go Fast” Fits with “Hurry Up and Decide”: Using EPA’s Situation Assessment Model to Help Clients Custom-Fit ECR Processes ?
(Deborah Dalton, Catherine Garypie, Karen Kellen, Joseph Siegel)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Sessions
- Climate Change in the 21st Century: Challenges for the Practice of Environmental Dispute Resolution?
(Michael Elliot, Ona Ferguson, Ric Richardson)
- Innovations in Application of Science to Natural Resource Decision Making ?
(Olivia Barton Ferriter, James Coleman, Lynne Koontz, Ione Taylor, Byron Ken Williams)
- Is ECR Really “Faster, Better and Cheaper”? ?
(Janet Crawford, John Haydon, Jianbo Kuang, Peta Stilgoe)
- New Technology as a Tool for Improved Community Involvement, Collaboration and Policy Formation ?
(Margaret Ford, John Senn)
- Overcoming Institutional Barriers to ECR at the Federal Level?
(Terry Fenton, Charles Howton, Meg Mitchell, Debra Whitall)
- State/Federal Collaborative Governance Structures and Strategies ?
(Greg Wolf, Anne Badgley, Langdon Marsh, Peter Murchie, Richard A. Whitley)
- Systematic Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Results (SEEER) - A New Way to Evaluate Results of ECR Decisions?
(Susan Goodwin, William Hall, Andy Rowe)
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2008
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Sessions
- Collaborating to Collaborate: Shared Federal, County and Local Management of the Golden Horseshoe ?
(Todd Bryan, Heide Anderson, Sue Boyel, Paul Semmer)
- Collaboration in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)/GIS-Based Decision Support Systems?
(Philip Murphy, Paul Burgess, Catherine Darst, Naicong Li, Austin McInerny)
- FACA for Facilitators -- Experience from the Field?
(Charles Howton, Deborah Dalton, Arthur Gary, Marilyn J. Kuray)
- How Well is ECR Performing? Results and Implications of a Three-Year Multi-Agency Evaluation Study (MAES)?
(Dale Keyes, E. Franklin Dukes, William D. Leach, Patricia Orr)
- Incorporating Nongovernmental and Local Government Interests in Government-to-Government Negotiations?
(Betsy Daniels, Mary Dumas, Aaron Miles, Greg Ridgley)
- Use and Abuse of Computer Models: Do Computer Models Help or Hinder Collaboration? ?
(Craig Forster, Michele Straube)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions
- A Step Removed: Third-Party Neutrals as Process Coaches?
(Carolyn Penny, John Stephens)
- An Identification of the Factors that Contribute to ECR Success and Implications for ECR Practice– Results and Discussion of a Three-Year Multi-Agency Study ?
(Kirk Emerson, Julian Birkhoff, Elena Gonzalez, Lucy Moore)
- Approaches for Managing Large Multiparty Cases When Things Start to Go Wrong?
(Christopher Moore, Joseph McMahon)
- Collaborative Preparation as Intervention: The Power of Pre-Meeting Work.?
(Maggie Herzig, Meenakshi Chakraverti)
- Computer Tools and Gadgets Recipe Swap?
(Tahnee Robertson, Dana Lucero)
- The Navy's Recovery from Hurricane Ivan: ECR and the National Historic Preservation Act ?
(Robert Manley, Richard Barfield, Juliana Novotny, Deborah Osborne)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch Plenary: Climate Change and Conflict: A Provocative Assessment
(Jonathan Overpeck)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Sessions
- Arizona Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) “Project Reference:” An Electronic, Web-based, Technological Tool that Reduces Conflict and Facilitates Collaborative Protection of the Environment?
(Debra Drecksel, Sam Elters, Scott Parkey)
- Collaboration: What's in it for Environmentalists? ?
(Mary O’Brien, Richard Roos-Collins, Matt Skroch)
- Fostering Collaboration in Intractable Tenure Conflicts in Public Lands-Lessons from Costa Rica?
(Sergio Guillen, Franklin Paniagua)
- New Technology for Collaborative Decision Making: Opportunities and Challenges Merging Cutting Edge Technologies for ECR?
(Jessica Block, Mark Keith, Kevin Lansey, Holly Richter, Abe Springer)
- Perspectives on Resolving Disputes in Indian Country ?
(Janice Whitney, Tom Colosi, Oren Lyons)
- To Tell the Truth: When Do Negotiated Rulemaking and Other Collaborative Policy Processes Make Sense and When They Don’t?
(Greg Bourne, Michael Eng, Robert Fisher, J. Michael Harty, Lucy Moore)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Sessions
- “Blue Ribbon" Decision-Making in California: Using Authority, Science and Stakeholder Facilitation ?
(J. Michael Harty, Meg Caldwell, John Kirlin, Scott McCreary)
- Computer Aided Dispute Resolution (CADRe) 101?
(Stacy Langsdale, Jessica Leigh Thompson)
- Exit Strategies: When and How to End a Process Well?
(Matthew Schweisberg, Joshua Jacks, Douglas Thompson, Elissa Tonkin)
- Exploring the ‘Conflict’ in ECR: Are We All Really Moving Toward the Same Goal? ?
(Dexter Albert, Martha Rozelle, Susan Springer, Linda Ximenes)
- Use of GIS/Visualization Tools in Transportation to Advance Technical and Community Collaboration ?
(Shari Schaftlein, Jeremiah Dumas, Jan Lucke, Marie Venner)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Closing Reception