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Date sent: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:51:47 -0500
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Subject: ANN: Workshop of Committee on Human Dimensions of Global
Change,
Washington, DC (Nov 29-30, 2000)
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From: Tom Dietz
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Below is the agenda for workshop the Committee on Human Dimensions of
Global Change is sponsoring. Anyone interested is welcome to attend but
space is limited, so if you are interested, please contact Paul Stern at
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Tom Dietz
Thomas Dietz, Ph.D.
Chair, U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of
Global Change
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Public Policy
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia 22030 U.S.A
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Workshop on
Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures in Environmental
Protection
November 29-30, 2000
National Research Council
Green Building, Room 126
2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington DC
Draft Agenda
November 29, 2000
INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION
9:00 am Session 1: The Potential for Education, Information, and
Voluntary Measures
Changes in Pollution and the Implications for Policy - Jim Salzman,
American University and David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian
Institution
To what extent has there been a shift in the balance of pollution
sources from point- to non-point sources, from production processes to
consumption processes, from organizations to households, from manufacturing
to commercial and residential sectors? If there is such a shift, what are
the implications for the use of EPA's typical regulatory strategies?
Discussion: M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University
10:00 am Break
INFORMATION AND EDUCATION FOR INDIVIDUALS AND HOUSEHOLDS
10:15 am Session 2: Social marketing approaches.
With social marketing, a set of target behaviors is defined in
advance, and efforts are aimed at increasing the prevalence of those
behaviors. Three presentations will focus on the use of education and
information to increase target proenvironmental behaviors; two will address
other well-studied behaviors that are promoted for their social benefits.
Promoting household energy conservation - Loren Lutzenhiser, Washington
State University
Promoting household recycling - P. Wesley Schultz, California State
University, California State University, San Marcos
Promoting green consumerism with product information - John Th�gerson,
Aarhus School of Business
Discussant: Paul Stern, National Research Council
12:15 Lunch
1:15 pm
Public health communication - Tom Valente, Johns Hopkins University
Promoting household disaster preparedness - Dennis Mileti, Colorado
University
Discussion
Discussion will aim to draw general lessons out of the collected
knowledge, to separate general lessons from those that are specific to
certain kinds of target behaviors, and to clarify the factors that make some
lessons specific and others general. It will also consider the overall
potential of social marketing approaches to improve environmental
conditions, both alone and in combination with other policy instruments.
Discussant: Mark Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 pm Break
3: 00 pm Session 3: Public education approaches.
A public education philosophy does not identify specific target behaviors.
It assumes that a well-educated public will take action to protect the
environment, but not necessarily any particular action.
School-based environmental education - John Ramsey, University of Houston
Adult environmental education - Elaine Andrews, University of Wisconsin
Environmental information on a right-to-know basis - Jeanne Herb, Tellus
Institute
Discussion
Discussion will again aim to draw general lessons and to separate
general lessons from those that are specific to certain educational
approaches. It will also consider the overall potential of public education
to improve environmental conditions and the appropriateness of environmental
improvement as a criterion for success of these efforts.
Discussants: to be determined
5:00 pm Adjourn
November 30, 2000
9:00 am Reconvene
VOLUNTARY MEASURES FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
Recent years have seen a proliferation of programs that are widely
considered non-regulatory and non-economic and that aim to improve the
environmental performance of firms, industries, and communities. The
variety is so great that there is no generally accepted typology of these
initiatives, let alone systematic evaluations of the effectiveness of each
type.
Presentations
will classify the initiatives and present and discuss evidence concerning
the effects of important examples of the main types.
9:00 am Session 4: Voluntary measures for firms
Voluntary measures for firms: A typology and theoretical issues - Richard
N. Andrews, Univ. of North Carolina
Government-sponsored programs for firms - Janice Mazurek, Huntington
Beach, CA
Voluntary codes of practice: Nongovernmental institutions for promoting
environmental management by firms - Jennifer Nash, Technology, Business,
and Environment Program, MIT
Evaluating the effectiveness of voluntary measures - Kathryn Harrison,
Univ. of British Columbia
Theoretical issues with measures for firms - Franco Furger, George Mason
University
Discussion
Discussants will address additional issues such as the roles of
factors within firms, interactions between firms and partners, and the
effects of international trade patterns and regimes. Open discussion will
again seek
general and specialized knowledge and address key policy questions,
including the issue of how much voluntary action depends on the shadow of
regulation.
Discussants:
Alan Randall, Ohio State University
Aseem Prakash, George Washington University [to be invited]
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12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Session 5. Voluntary measures in communities
Conditions affecting the ability of communities to implement effective
measures
? Daniel Press, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Discussant: Troy Abel, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Session 6. Policy Implications
What is the potential of these measures? How can the understanding be
achieved that will enable them to achieve their potential? Discussants (to
be named) will open the session with remarks on behavioral, organizational,
policy, and research issues.
Discussion Panel: Thomas Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Others to be invited
Open Discussion
5:00 pm Adjourn
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