e.e.r.c.: Highlights and Initiatives: February 1999

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
February 1999 Energy, Environment and Resources Center Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies Gary A. Davis, Director Office of Communications and Publications David Brill, Director Center for Geography and Environmental Education Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program Sheila Webster, Director Systems Development Institute Donald Alvic, Director Pro-Dialogue Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors Water Resources Research Center Tim Gangaware, Associate Director For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/	Workshops. Senior Research Scientist David Feldman is teaching the Environmental Policy Research Workshop, Economics 579. The workshop, which Feldman has taught for five years, is a key component of the environmental policy graduate minor and involves a series of lectures by UT and East Tennessee environmental experts, as well as student presentations and discussions. This semester, the workshop comprises 16 students from a variety of UT departments, including biology and evolutionary biology; education; forestry, wildlife, and fisheries; geography; philosophy; political science; and planning. Awards. Systems Development Institute (SDI) staff members were awarded military medallions in February for their contribution to the U.S. Army’s Force Projection Wargame as part of the Army After Next exercise for 1999. Brigadier General G.S. Harper of the Army’s Transportation School at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, presented the "Spearhead of Logistics" medallion to SDI Assistant Director Anurag Agarwal and Research Associate Warren Wilson, who worked with the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST). This software, a combined effort of SDI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and DPRA, Inc., allowed military personnel to study future transportation problems by analyzing Department of Defense wartime transportation deployment needs and assisted officers with preparations for a simulated large-scale deployment in 2020. General Harper dropped in on a planning session to make the presentation. Projects. The University of Tennessee’s Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is facilitating the development of a regional "blueways" network of linked water trails in East Tennessee that will encourage canoers and kayakers to make use of local waterways and also promote other forms of recreation, natural resource stewardship, and ecotourism. The project, coordinated by WRRC Graduate Research Assistants Laura Wilks and Jeff Duncan, began as a pilot program along the Holston and lower French Broad Rivers and proposes to link to other waterways and greenways in East Tennessee. Participants include the WRRC, Knox County Parks, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ijams Nature Center, City of Knoxville, Metropolitan Planning Commission, Knoxville/Knox County/Knoxville Utilities Board GIS, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, UT School of Planning, River Sports Outfitters, and Tennessee School for the Deaf. The WRRC is directed by Tim Gangaware. Publications. Gary Davis, director of EERC’s Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, wrote sections of a report recently released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency titled Environmental Labeling Issues, Policies, and Practices Worldwide (report #742-R-98-009). In addition, Davis’ paper "Is There a Broad Principle of EPR?" produced for an international seminar held in May in Lund, Sweden, is now available via the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Web site (http://www.lu.se/IIIEE/research/products/epr/epr_1998/epr_1998_davis.html). Executive Director Jack Barkenbus published "Soft Tools for Environmental Management" in FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, Winter 1998. In the article, Barkenbus examines the role of "soft tools"—such as right-to-know obligations, consumer-product labeling, environmental indicators, and environmental education—in realizing sustainable development. The paper supports the use of information as a tool that will "trigger a public response either in the marketplace or the political arena."

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Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

February 1999

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Office of Communications and Publications

David Brill, Director

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Systems Development Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/

Workshops. Senior Research Scientist David Feldman is teaching the Environmental Policy Research Workshop, Economics 579. The workshop, which Feldman has taught for five years, is a key component of the environmental policy graduate minor and involves a series of lectures by UT and East Tennessee environmental experts, as well as student presentations and discussions. This semester, the workshop comprises 16 students from a variety of UT departments, including biology and evolutionary biology; education; forestry, wildlife, and fisheries; geography; philosophy; political science; and planning.

Awards. Systems Development Institute (SDI) staff members were awarded military medallions in February for their contribution to the U.S. Army’s Force Projection Wargame as part of the Army After Next exercise for 1999. Brigadier General G.S. Harper of the Army’s Transportation School at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, presented the "Spearhead of Logistics" medallion to SDI Assistant Director Anurag Agarwal and Research Associate Warren Wilson, who worked with the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST). This software, a combined effort of SDI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and DPRA, Inc., allowed military personnel to study future transportation problems by analyzing Department of Defense wartime transportation deployment needs and assisted officers with preparations for a simulated large-scale deployment in 2020. General Harper dropped in on a planning session to make the presentation.

Projects. The University of Tennessee’s Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is facilitating the development of a regional "blueways" network of linked water trails in East Tennessee that will encourage canoers and kayakers to make use of local waterways and also promote other forms of recreation, natural resource stewardship, and ecotourism. The project, coordinated by WRRC Graduate Research Assistants Laura Wilks and Jeff Duncan, began as a pilot program along the Holston and lower French Broad Rivers and proposes to link to other waterways and greenways in East Tennessee. Participants include the WRRC, Knox County Parks, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ijams Nature Center, City of Knoxville, Metropolitan Planning Commission, Knoxville/Knox County/Knoxville Utilities Board GIS, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, UT School of Planning, River Sports Outfitters, and Tennessee School for the Deaf. The WRRC is directed by Tim Gangaware.

Publications. Gary Davis, director of EERC’s Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, wrote sections of a report recently released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency titled Environmental Labeling Issues, Policies, and Practices Worldwide (report #742-R-98-009). In addition, Davis’ paper "Is There a Broad Principle of EPR?" produced for an international seminar held in May in Lund, Sweden, is now available via the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Web site (http://www.lu.se/IIIEE/research/products/epr/epr_1998/epr_1998_davis.html).

Executive Director Jack Barkenbus published "Soft Tools for Environmental Management" in FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, Winter 1998. In the article, Barkenbus examines the role of "soft tools"—such as right-to-know obligations, consumer-product labeling, environmental indicators, and environmental education—in realizing sustainable development. The paper supports the use of information as a tool that will "trigger a public response either in the marketplace or the political arena."

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