FYI.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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From: Angela Nugent, Special Assistant, EPA Science
Advisory Board, (202) 564-4562 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: Announcement of EPA/Science Advisory Board (SAB) Workshop:
Understanding Public Values and Attitudes Related to Ecological Risk
Management
Please forward this notice about this EPA/SAB Workshop to individuals who
might be interested in or contribute to the topics being discussed.
Announcement of EPA/SAB Workshop: "Understanding Public Values and
Attitudes Related to Ecological Risk Management."
The Workshop is open to the public. Seating, however, is limited and
available on a registration basis. See attached flyer for brief
description.
Time and Location - The Workshop will be held on May 23-24, 2001 at
the Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC, Telephone 202-202-884-8000. Registration is from 8:30 -
9:00 am on May 23rd. The Workshop will begin at 9:00 am each day, ending
at 5:00 pm on May 23rd and no later than 12:15 pm on May 24th.
Purpose of the Workshop - To demonstrate how researchers using
different kinds of analytical methods, tools and approaches from the social
sciences can mutually inform each other and risk managers in understanding:
(a) public values and attitudes related to specific threats to ecological
resources, such as a specific water body threatened with nitrogen
deposition and (b) the significance of those values.
The Workshop will focus on a particular waterbody, Tampa Bay Estuary
and provide an opportunity for four researchers in the social sciences to
address the following questions in terms that are relevant to and readily
comprehendible to Agency management:
Given that the state of knowledge about ecological and human health
effects of nitrogen deposition are fairly well known in the Tampa Bay
Estuary, (a) Why do people care about protecting waterbodies against
current problems and preventing further nitrogen deposition? and (b)
How can EPA move beyond current economic considerations, per se, to
identify and evaluate/measure why and how much people care about
protecting the resource?
Workshop Agenda - A draft agenda is available on the SAB website (see
below). The first day of the Workshop will include an introduction
followed by four presentations of Research Plans commissioned on the
issue. These proposals would demonstrate how different social science
approaches (in the disciplines of anthropology, decision sciences,
economics, and social psychology) could help decision makers at EPA and
outside understand values, attitudes and decision factors related to
protection of Tampa Bay against nitrogen deposition. There would be a
short time following each presentation for a facilitated discussion.
The morning of the second day will feature a panel of managers who
will discuss their reactions to the expert presentations. They would focus
on the potential usefulness of the research proposals presented, whether
and how they add value to information currently available to decision
makers for making decisions, communicating decisions, and justifying
decisions about ecological risk management.
For Further Information - To register for the Workshop, please send
the following information via email to: Brian Heninger at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by May 15th: name; affiliation; address; phone;
fax; e-mail address; occupation; area of expertise; and what aspects of
this Workshop interest you the most.
Any member of the public wishing further information concerning this
Workshop should consult the website for this Workshop at
http://www.epa.gov/sab/presentation-1/index.htm. Questions concerning this
Workshop can be directed to Angela Nugent, Special Assistant, EPA Science
Advisory Board, (202) 564-4562 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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