 |
This seminar, which is offered in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Watershed Academy, emphasizes community-based partnership building and decisionmaking within watershed areas. Basic skills, potential pitfalls, and rewarding results of community-based environmental partnering and decisionmaking will be explored. In small group settings, participants will explore current community-based projects and state-of-the-art approaches through presentations by expert practitioners. They will realize the prominent roles that leadership, assessment, plant and animal ecology, ingenuity, and modeling play in sustaining healthy watersheds. Topics: - Practice the breadth of technical, scientific, interpersonal, and innovative skills needed to develop a community-based environmental plan
- Participate in a learning group that challenges, takes risks, explores new ideas and behaviors, and works through conflict to gain insights
- Apply specific scientific, technical and leadership tools for collaborating with others with diverse personalities and environmental objectives
- Practice new ways of communicating and problem solving?from stress-driven problem solving to pro-active problem solving
- Observe in-the-field watershed issues, solutions and practitioners
Key Results
- Acquire skills and technical knowledge to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders
- Network with other professionals involved in watershed efforts
- Learn the phases of community-based environmental planning, partnerships, and decisionmaking
- Develop techniques to work effectively in partnerships at the local level
- Study scientific and technical watershed planning, assessment, and decisionmaking
- Recognize how behaviors and attitudes can contribute to, or erode, group dynamics
- Learn the evolution and application of environmental regulation
- Observe how imagination, innovation, and passion help build compelling community-based plans
Who Should Attend
Managers, team/project leaders, and others involved in making and supporting decisions that affect the environmental quality of watersheds or other geographically defined areas.
Schedule and Cost
Course includes meals, lodging, tuition and course materials
| Dates |
Location |
Cost |
|
|
|
 |
|
Nov 8 - Nov 19, 04
|
WMDC |
$3,900.00 |
|
Apply
|
|
*Printable Version: Will launch a new window. Print the page
from your browser, then close the browser window to return to this
page.
|
