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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class introduces first semester MCP students to the persistent themes and challenges facing planners. The goals of this class are:
to excite students about their chosen profession;
to offer a theoretical framework for thinking about the kinds of interventions that planners are expected to take;
to introduce students to some of the most interesting and challenging theoretical debates in the planning field; and
to press students to think about the best way of using their time to ensure their own personal professional development.
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- urban studies and planning
- planners
- challenges facing planners
- professional development
- planning literature
- planning practice
- urban planning
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This seminar will explore the difficulties of getting agreement on global definitions of sustainability; in particularly building international support for efforts to combat climate change created by greenhouse gas emissions as well as other international resource management efforts. We will focus on possible changes in the way global environmental agreements are formulated and implemented, especially on ways of shifting from the current "pollution control" approach to combating climate change to a more comprehensive strategy for taking advantage of sustainable development opportunities.
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- urban studies and planning
- sustainability
- managing common resources
- transboundary pollution control
- economic development
- social development
- environmental resource protection
- environmental protection standardsinternational negotiations
- multi-lateral negotiations
- representation
- voting
- issue linkage
- balancing science and politics
- climate change convention
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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11.941 and 11.942 make up a one-year seminar. The goal of this seminar is to explore the role of science and scientists in ecosystems and natural resources management focusing on joint fact finding as a new approach to environmental policy-making. Increasingly scientists and science organizations are confronting a conundrum: Why is science often ignored in important societal decisions even as the call for decisions based on sound science escalates? One reason is that decision-making is often driven by a variety of nonscientific, adversarial, and stakeholder dynamics. Thus, even though science helps inform choices, it is only one of many values and interests considered by each stakeholder. In response to this emerging challenge, scientists, and science agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey, are embarking upon research that explores the problems of incorporating science into value-laden societal decisions. This research includes designing experiments that will assess the appropriateness of using the new and emerging approach of Joint Fact Finding to address some of the Nation's most contentious environmental conflicts. In the first few sessions we will examine the problems of using science in environmental disputes. In following sessions, students will analyze and discuss cases that involved or that should have involved Joint Fact Finding of various kinds.
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- urban studies and planning
- ecosystems
- natural resources management
- environmental policy-making
- science organizations
- science
- decision-making
- science agencies
- u.s. geological survey
- environmental conflicts
- cape wind controversy
- disputes
- joint fact finding
- environmental policy
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course makes up the second half of a year-long seminar on Joint Fact Finding in Science-Intensive Disputes. In 11.941, the first half of the seminar, students analyzed and discussed cases that involved or that should have involved Joint Fact Finding of various kinds. In this portion, students concentrate on gathering information to assist in resolving the Cape Wind project, the dispute concerning the placement of wind farms in waters adjacent to Nantucket. Students will lay the groundwork for a collaborative project that includes Federal and State agencies, academic institutions and non-profits.
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- urban studies and planning
- role-play simulation
- policymakers
- cape wind controversy
- wind farms
- windfarm
- ecosystems
- natural resources management
- environmental policy-making
- science organizations
- science
- decision-making
- science agencies
- national environmental policy act
- nepa
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution, sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and The Flora and William Hewlett Foundation, is a two-day conference that brings together dispute resolution professionals and political theorists in the field of deliberative democracy.
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- urban studies and planning
- deliberative democracy
- dispute resolution
- conflict management
- decision making
- munipalities
- metropolitan areas
- policy making
- consensus building
- implementation of agreements
- negotiated settlements
- negotiated agreements
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