Sentences with phrase «environmental conflicts»

His advice to people on both sides of environmental conflicts?

As well as reducing our reliance on fossil fuels we need to reduce competition over resources and address the growing socio - economic divisions which are set to fuel environmental conflicts.

The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution is assembling a roster of qualified dispute resolution and consensus building professionals with particular experience in transportation cases.

One of the hottest environmental conflicts in the European Union — the logging of a primeval forest in Poland — may be nearing an end.

Collaboration Skills for Environmental Leaders The Institute at the Golden Gate partnered with the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) to offer a highly interactive, scenario based training opportunity for environmental leaders.

Spanner is hardly the whiny type and recognizes that some bruises at a climate protest pale in comparison to some of the assaults on journalists covering environmental conflicts around the world.

Brent Millikan, another of the book's editors, told Mongabay: «The socio - environmental conflicts linked to the planning, licensing and implementation of hydroelectric dam projects in the Tapajós basin — similar to other recent cases, such as Belo Monte on the Xingu river — have been closely associated with chronic violations of human rights and environmental legislation, the undermining of democratic institutions, authoritarianism and, ultimately, rampant corruption.

At the same time, domestic exploitation of unconventional sources of natural gas, production of oil and gas from more difficult settings both onshore and offshore, and continued record - setting coal production using intensive methods, are producing new environmental conflicts.

At Arbitration Forum, Kenneth Cloke tells «Why We Need to Mediate [International] Environmental Conflicts ``.

For Green Prophet, I often write about (let's face it) depressing issues such as climate refugees and environmental conflicts in which everyone pays the price but I do sometimes get to write about some fun stuff too.

In other words, the kinds of arguments environmentalists deployed, the nature of environmental conflict, shifted and became more ecology - focused in part because as a quantifiable science ecological arguments were more persuasive in court.

The Institute will draw from its roster of qualified neutrals with substantial experience in environmental conflict resolution.

Another leading organization in this area, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, will return in December with a new two - day training workshop on how technology can be used to address environmental issues.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

Could the future Sustainable Development Goals break the current paradigm of irrational consumerism which provokes disasters, environmental conflicts, global warning, and climate change.

The environmental example noted that, with the assistance of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, a Federal agency created to assist parties in resolving environmental conflicts around the country that involve Federal agencies or interests, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is working on developing an ADR system that would be applied during the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.

It's an environmental conflict that has been coursing through California for more than a century: the unrelenting thirst of San Francisco versus the pristine beauty of nature.

Update, Jan. 6, 6:50 a.m. Please read this Op - Ed article by Nancy Langston, a professor of environmental history at Michigan Technological University who has studied land and environmental conflicts in the region around Malheur: «In Oregon, Myth Mixes With Anger.»

But we should recognize that this development was contingent on changes in the nature of environmental conflict, changes that can be traced right back to Storm King.

However, more important than the professionalization is the fact that, for all the reasons described above, the fight over Storm King fashioned a new set of tools, new forms of environmental conflict and resolution that would allow people in other communities, in other times, the means to fight for a better environment.

Prior to joining NIDIS, she served as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow at adelphi, a Berlin - based international think tank, conducting research on climate risk insurance, environmental conflict and state fragility, and the water - food - energy nexus.

The main challenge for addressing deforestation in the Amazon and in other biomes in Brazil lies in solving the serious land ownership problems facing the country, which are at the roots of its socio - environmental conflicts.

I'm looking forward to seeing these for a variety of reasons, and what I'll be looking for in each of them in addition to the criteria outlined above is a sense of creativity, a willingness to admit that there can be shades of grey in stories of environmental conflict, and an ability to suspend the rush to provide all the answers.

Topics to be covered include the approaches to and management of conflicts and disputes in courts, families, communities, workplaces, education and human resource management, e-commerce and online dispute resolution, cross-cultural dispute resolution, environmental conflicts and land disputes.

For example, a combined MSL in Environmental Law and Dispute Resolution could provide ADR neutrals for environmental conflict resolution.