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

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
May 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 423-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/	International News. Jack Barkenbus, EERC’s executive director, was named one of three finalists for the St. Andrews Prize, which was recently awarded for practical solutions to environmental problems. Barkenbus presented his paper "Community Environmental Monitoring: Mobilizing Human Resources" at the St. Andrews Seminar in St. Andrews, Scotland. An international panel of trustees awarded $25,000 for the essay deemed to represent the most promising practical solution to environmental problems. The prize, funded by Conoco and organized by the University of St. Andrews, attracted 240 entries from corporate, political, and academic authors representing 42 countries. Lori Kincaid, associate director of the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, spoke on "Hazardous Substance Substitution: Experiences in the United States" in April at the SPHERE+ European Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [SPHERE is an acronym for "Substitution Projects for Health and Environment: Lessons from Results and Experience."] The SPHERE project examined European projects that promoted hazardous-substance substitution; the conference explored the experiences, results, and lessons learned from seven recent projects. Kincaid discussed the roles of state, federal, and nongovernmental organizations in U.S. hazardous-substance substitution projects and highlighted the framework EERC used in projects with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment Program. Graduate Research Assistant Jeff Duncan received the McClure Fellowship for International Studies. He will be traveling to Manaus, Brazil, to design and implement a course in sustainable development in the Amazon Basin. Duncan also received a summer research grant from UT’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology to study the influence of Knox County riparian corridors on local and regional biodiversity. Conferences. Research Leader Mary English chaired a session titled "Improving Interactions between Environmental Professionals and the Public" at the recent National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research Conference in Knoxville. In a session titled "Community Sustainability Issues," English presented "Smart Growth Activities in Tennessee," a paper she coauthored with Research Scientist Jean Peretz. The paper details how communities with limited staffs and budgets can use visioning, planning, and computer-based tools to prepare for future growth. In April, Research Scientist David Feldman served as plenary speaker for the panel "Going to the Source: Protecting Tennessee’s Drinking Water" at the meeting of the Tennessee chapter of the American Water Resources Association at the Nashville Convention Center. Feldman discussed the findings of the Southeastern Water Resources: Management and Supply Symposium, which was held in Chattanooga in August. Feldman had served as symposium coordinator. Publications. David Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Patrice Cole co-authored a report, Place-based Environmental Initiatives: Comparing Negotiation and Collaboration in Five Cases, for EERC’s affiliate, the Waste Management Research and Education Institute. The report identifies place-based environmental initiatives that seek to balance economic development with environmental protection, examines where conflicts may occur, and determines what conditions will make such initiatives acceptable to stakeholders.

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Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

May 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 423-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

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

International News. Jack Barkenbus, EERC’s executive director, was named one of three finalists for the St. Andrews Prize, which was recently awarded for practical solutions to environmental problems. Barkenbus presented his paper "Community Environmental Monitoring: Mobilizing Human Resources" at the St. Andrews Seminar in St. Andrews, Scotland. An international panel of trustees awarded $25,000 for the essay deemed to represent the most promising practical solution to environmental problems. The prize, funded by Conoco and organized by the University of St. Andrews, attracted 240 entries from corporate, political, and academic authors representing 42 countries.

Lori Kincaid, associate director of the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, spoke on "Hazardous Substance Substitution: Experiences in the United States" in April at the SPHERE+ European Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [SPHERE is an acronym for "Substitution Projects for Health and Environment: Lessons from Results and Experience."] The SPHERE project examined European projects that promoted hazardous-substance substitution; the conference explored the experiences, results, and lessons learned from seven recent projects. Kincaid discussed the roles of state, federal, and nongovernmental organizations in U.S. hazardous-substance substitution projects and highlighted the framework EERC used in projects with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment Program.

Graduate Research Assistant Jeff Duncan received the McClure Fellowship for International Studies. He will be traveling to Manaus, Brazil, to design and implement a course in sustainable development in the Amazon Basin. Duncan also received a summer research grant from UT’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology to study the influence of Knox County riparian corridors on local and regional biodiversity.

Conferences. Research Leader Mary English chaired a session titled "Improving Interactions between Environmental Professionals and the Public" at the recent National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research Conference in Knoxville. In a session titled "Community Sustainability Issues," English presented "Smart Growth Activities in Tennessee," a paper she coauthored with Research Scientist Jean Peretz. The paper details how communities with limited staffs and budgets can use visioning, planning, and computer-based tools to prepare for future growth.

In April, Research Scientist David Feldman served as plenary speaker for the panel "Going to the Source: Protecting Tennessee’s Drinking Water" at the meeting of the Tennessee chapter of the American Water Resources Association at the Nashville Convention Center. Feldman discussed the findings of the Southeastern Water Resources: Management and Supply Symposium, which was held in Chattanooga in August. Feldman had served as symposium coordinator.

Publications. David Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Patrice Cole co-authored a report, Place-based Environmental Initiatives: Comparing Negotiation and Collaboration in Five Cases, for EERC’s affiliate, the Waste Management Research and Education Institute. The report identifies place-based environmental initiatives that seek to balance economic development with environmental protection, examines where conflicts may occur, and determines what conditions will make such initiatives acceptable to stakeholders.

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