Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation: Special Projects Funding Proposal

The Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program requests RMMLF Special Project funding to develop a series of inter-connected role-play simulation exercises that will be used to teach mineral law students and practitioners negotiation and collaborative problem-solving skills in a risk-free, but realistic, environment. Each of the exercises will rely on the same set of facts about a mineral development project. They will be designed to successively engage students in learning key skills and concepts; each simulation will build on the lessons learned in prior exercises. The simulations will be designed to expose participants to a variety of stakeholder roles, with the aim of enhancing participants’ ability to fully understand the varying perspectives on complex mineral law issues

Collaborative Groups Related to Sustainable Grazing on Public Lands

Based on a talk given at the Local Knowledge – Local Solutions: Science, Management and Policy Symposium on February 1, 2017 (held as part of the 2017 Society for Range Management Annual Meeting), the article describes three highly “dynamic” collaborations focused on sustainable grazing issues, for which the author served as facilitator/mediator. The article draws conclusions about what worked well in those collaborations, along with some lessons learned: the process of striving for consensus supports a problem-solving conversation; collaboration takes time; a shared “love of place” helps the participants find common ground; and an early commitment to an ongoing working relationship enables joint monitoring and adaptive management to address uncertainties

Environmental Dispute Resolution Program: Year 2 Accomplishments: February 2013 – January 2014

The Stegner Center’s EDR Program encompasses four general categories of activity designed to support and expand the use of EDR in Utah and the Mountain West: academic instruction, capacity-building, public education, and facilitation/mediation services. One primary focus of this first year’s efforts was on meeting with a cross-section of stakeholder interests working on environmental and natural resource issues to introduce the new program and to get their insights on how the program can be most helpful in promoting constructive dialogue on these issues. An equally important focus was to start establishing a track record of accomplishments in each of the four program activity areas

Current Directions in the Auricular

Electrical stimulation of the auricular vagus nerve (aVNS) is an emerging electroceutical technology in the field of bioelectronic medicine with applications in therapy. Artificial modulation of the afferent vagus nerve – a powerful entrance to the brain – affects a large number of physiological processes implicating interactions between the brain and body. Engineering aspects of aVNS determine its efficiency in application. The relevant safety and regulatory issues need to be appropriately addressed. In particular, in silico modeling acts as a tool for aVNS optimization. The evolution of personalized electroceuticals using novel architectures of the closed-loop aVNS paradigms with biofeedback can be expected to optimally meet therapy needs. For the first time, two international workshops on aVNS have been held in Warsaw and Vienna in 2017 within the scope of EU COST Action “European network for innovative uses of EMFs in biomedical applications (BM1309).” Both workshops focused critically on the driving physiological mechanisms of aVNS, its experimental and clinical studies in animals and humans, in silico aVNS studies, technological advancements, and regulatory barriers. The results of the workshops are covered in two reviews, covering physiological and engineering aspects. The present review summarizes on engineering aspects – a discussion of physiological aspects is provided by our accompanying article (Kaniusas et al., 2019). Both reviews build a reasonable bridge from the rationale of aVNS as a therapeutic tool to current research lines, all of them being highly relevant for the promising aVNS technology to reach the patient.European Cooperation in Science and TechnologyThe Austrian Research Promotion Agenc

La Sal Collaboration (LSSC): Final Report and Consensus Recommendation

The La Sal Sustainability Collaboration (LSSC) was established in 2014 in response to social, economic, administrative, and ecological concerns for the southern La Sal Mountains and adjoining canyon lands. This 285,000 acre landscape includes private lands and public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (FS), and the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). LSSC is co-convened by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) Grazing Improvement Program and the Grand Canyon Trust (GCT)

Collaborative Governance Bibliography

A Bibliography on Collective Governanc

Environmental Dispute Resolution Program: Year 3 Accomplishments: February 2014 – January 2015

Founded in 1994, the Center’s academic program in environmental and natural resources law is ranked in the top 20 programs nationally. The Center has reached beyond the traditional confines of a law school through its diverse educational programs, including its annual symposium, green bag noon-hour lecture series, and evening programs, which are offered to the general public. Through these programs, the Center has brought national and local experts in a variety of fields, including law, science, and public policy, to the community. The Center programs have become an important forum regionally and nationally for promoting public dialogue about how best to meet the environmental challenges of our time. With an extraordinary five-year, $762,000 grant from the Alternative Visions Fund of the Chicago Community Trust, the Center has expanded its mission to promote collaboration, mediation, and other dispute resolution processes as a means to address contemporary environmental conflicts through a new Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program. EDR processes help parties to engage in a rational discussion, overcome communication obstacles, and fashion potential solutions that result in better environmental protections and more effective practices, while avoiding costly litigation and ongoing conflicts. The Stegner Center’s EDR Program, which began operation in mid February 2012 under the leadership of Michele Straube, is unique among the College of Law’s peer institutions and is proving to be a valuable asset regionally and nationally

(Environmental) Conflict Resolution Reading List

A Reading List for Environmental Conflict Resolutio

Homeless Issues in Downtown Salt Lake City : Situation Assessment Proposal

This project proposes to provide a comprehensive Situation Assessment of the homeless issues affecting downtown Salt Lake City – exploring public perceptions and stakeholder willingness to be part of the solution, while also presenting a complete picture of existing efforts to address homeless issues downtown. The information gathered and analyzed should enable city government to move beyond Bandaid fixes and engage in effective and strategic problem-solving to provide long-term solutions to specific problems identified through the situation assessment