>From: "Harris, Craig" >
>To: "'envtecsoc'" >
>Subject: COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

>The University for Peace (UPEACE), headquartered in Costa Rica, is offering
>the following courses (in English) through its Department of Natural
>Resources and Peace.  A maximum of 30 participants will be accepted from
>industrialized and developing countries, representing different sectors such
>as academic institutions, communities, NGO's, civil society organizations,
>government and business.
>
>COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
>
>July 9-25, 2001
>
>A high degree of conflict concerning access to and use of natural resources
>is one of the traits of the developing world. These conflicts usually
>confront multiple and diverse stakeholders in terms of culture, knowledge,
>resources and power. Though most environmental conflicts develop in an
>essentially local framework, they are also frequently connected at regional,
>national and even international levels. Environmental conflicts impact
>public interests and goods, including non-represented interests (e.g. future
>generations) and they transcend political and geographical boundaries.
>
>UPEACE and its partners aim to identify and support successful conflict
>management processes, where all parties share an enhanced vision of creative
>solutions to their common problems.
>
>The long-term objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of
>students and groups who are active in natural resources management to manage
>conflicts, research case studies, train local players, create policy and
>build coalitions.
>
>The main components of the course are:
>         *       concepts and principles
>         *       conflict analysis
>         *       process design
>         *       interventions (with emphasis in mediation and facilitation)
>         *       coalition building.
>
>Please find detailed information about the course at:
>http://www.upeace.org/academic/courses/collaborative01.htm
>
>The course fee is US$ 2300 which includes tuition, food and lodging. Travel
>costs are additional.
>
>
>ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF FOREST AND NATURAL RESOURCE POLICIES
>
>August 6-22, 2001
>
>Discussions regarding forest development have increased in complexity due to
>the influence of international initiatives with technical and financial
>mechanisms that affect local policies.  At the same time, internal pressure
>groups also affect national policies and relationships with cooperating
>countries. Designing, formulating and implementing policies is the
>responsibility of an increasing number of players in various sectors and in
>the society at large. The mission of the University for Peace is to promote
>sustainable development as a stable base for local, national, regional and
>global peace.
>
>The overall objective of this course is to provide analytical tools to those
>responsible for the formulation of forest policies.  These tools will
>facilitate the participation of policy makers in reform processes, leading
>to important contributions in the fields of forestry and natural resources
>both at the local and global levels.
>
>The basic components of the course are:
>         *       policy analysis
>         *       international initiatives
>         *       national policies
>         *       policy design
>
>Please find detailed information about the course at:
>http://www.upeace.org/academic/courses/policies01.htm
>
>The course fee is US$ 2300 which includes tuition, food and lodging. Travel
>costs are additional.

Lester Brown Coins New Institute to Build Eco-Economy

WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2001 (ENS) - The man who founded the influential

WorldWatch Institute 26 years ago, Lester Brown, today announced the
formation of a new organization, the Earth Policy Institute.

Brown says a new organization is needed because "we are losing the war
to save the planet."
 
Lester Brown (Photo courtesy Earth Policy Institute)

Worldwatch, based in Washington, DC, is a nonprofit public policy
research organization. Founded on the idea that information is a powerful tool of
social change, WorldWatch publishes an annual environmental State of the

World report, a monthly magazine, does research, publishes in some 30
languages, and maintains a working relationship with the world's major
news organizations.

Many battles have been won, Brown says, but "the gap between what we
need to do to arrest the environmental deterioration of Earth and what we are
doing continues to widen. Somehow we have to turn the tide."

To effectively win the war to save the planet, Brown intends to create
the building blocks of an environmentally sustainable economy, what he calls
"an eco-economy." By definition, an eco-economy is "designed to mesh
with Earth's ecosystem instead of disrupting and destroying it," he says.

The new institute will produce a book, "Eco-Economy: Building an Economy
for the Earth," containing detailed descriptions of the policy tools
that can be used employed, such as a restructuring of the tax system that
will simultaneously reduce income taxes and raise taxes on environmentally
destructive activities.

Brown wants to develop "a shared vision of the eco-economy," a "roadmap
of how to get from here to there," and a continual assessment of progress
in this effort.

To achieve these goals, Brown believes the Earth Policy Institute is
crucial. He intends it to be a new kind of research organization that
will produce short issue briefs for media, policymakers and Internet
distribution.

They will supplement, not substitute for in-depth research on
environmental issues that is being done by the Worldwatch Institute, World Resources
Institute, and many other more specialized, scientific research centers
working on environmental issues.

Monthly Eco-Economy Updates will deal with new initiatives that are
affecting progress toward an eco-economy. Based on a worldwide
monitoring system, they will include initiatives that contribute to building an
eco-economy - a major commitment by a government to develop its wind
energy resources or to stabilize population - and actions that detract from the
effort, such as a governmental decision to allow clearcutting of a
forest.

Brown has thrown out a challenge to the communications media to assume
responsibility for helping the world make the transition to an
eco-economy. "It will take an enormous amount of information dissemination to guide
the transition to an eco-economy," said Brown. "Editors may not relish this
assignment, but the reality is that there is no other institution that
has the capacity to disseminate quickly the information needed to guide the
transition to a sustainable economy in the time that is available."

Brown will continue as chairman of the board of Worldwatch Institute and
will become a senior fellow at Worldwatch.

The Earth Policy Institute is online at: http://www.earth-policy.org/

Beszelven az "Earth Policy Instittute" es Ecological Economics-rol:

Mi az "okologikus gazdasagtan" es hogyan forditanad magyarra?
A kozgazdasagtan egy aga lenne?  Ha igen, miben kulonbozik a kozgazdasagtantol
es kik az oko-gazdaszok?

Judit