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![Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice]()
Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice
November 15, 2017
CBI served as consultant to the Getty Conservation Institute on a project to improve heritage professionals' capacity to engage stakeholders around the sustainable management of cultural heritage places.
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![Revising Funding Formulas for Native American Schools]()
Revising Funding Formulas for Native American Schools
November 15, 2017
CBI facilitated a negotiated rule-making process on school maintenance funding for schools supported by the Bureau of Indian Education.
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![Managing Local and International Conflict Over a Pulp Mill in Uruguay]()
Managing Local and International Conflict Over a Pulp Mill in Uruguay
November 15, 2017
The International Finance Corporation asked CBI to assess Argentine and Uruguayan stakeholder concerns and facilitate their involvement in a review of two controversial paper mills on the Rio Uruguay.
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![Joint Environmental Mediation Training in the Middle East]()
Joint Environmental Mediation Training in the Middle East
November 15, 2017
CBI partnered with the Middle East think tank Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information to create the Joint Environmental Mediation Service, which trains Israelis and Palestinians in mediation and negotiation and supervises trainees as they mediate active disputes.
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![California Passes Landmark Groundwater Management Law]()
California Passes Landmark Groundwater Management Law
November 15, 2017
CBI facilitated conversations among water managers in California’s Central Valley to map out central elements of a sustainable groundwater policy, laying the foundation for the state's landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which passed in 2014.
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![Changing Direction on Ohio Highway Project]()
Changing Direction on Ohio Highway Project
November 15, 2017
CBI facilitated a process that led to deeper collaboration among parties in setting transportation priorities in Ohio's Eastern Corridor, and a departure from a plan to relocate State Route 32.
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![Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation in Sonoma County, California]()
Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation in Sonoma County, California
November 15, 2017
Sonoma County engaged CBI to help build consensus on how to create a governance and decision-making structure to form a groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014.
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![Regional Action for Florida's Caloosahatchee River]()
Regional Action for Florida's Caloosahatchee River
November 15, 2017
At the request of the South Florida Water Management District, CBI helped stakeholders from a four-county watershed develop a vision and set of actionable priorities for protecting the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary.
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![Reforming Energy Facilities Siting]()
Reforming Energy Facilities Siting
November 15, 2017
CBI helped streamline and expand stakeholder input to New Hampshire’s siting process for renewable energy generation and other energy facilities.
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![Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation]()
Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation
November 15, 2017
CBI facilitated negotiations among natural gas producers, pipelines, and distribution companies on possible changes to the long-standing protocols for scheduling the flow of gas to customers.
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![Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru]()
Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru
November 15, 2017
CBI assisted the United Nations Development Programme in Peru in developing and delivering a course on consensus building to build the mediation capacity of the Peruvian Public Defenders Office, Defensoria del Pueblo.
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![Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality]()
Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality
November 15, 2017
The Cape Cod Commission asked CBI to facilitate citizen engagement in a process to develop a regional plan for the region's wastewater management problems.
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