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CBI Helps West Virginia Schools Rebuild After Historic Flooding
It’s hard to find an arena closer to people’s hearts than their schools. In Nicholas County, West Virginia, despite shrinking enrollment and tight budgets, the rival high schools in Richwood and Summersville have served as the centers of civic community life. So it wasn’t surprising that a proposal to consolidate the schools erupted in controversy and intense conflict.
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Energy Siting Can Be Incendiary
As energy extraction and production technology has advanced, a whole host of issues around siting arose across stakeholders. CBI outlines seven key lessons from mitigating these types of conflicts and announces a new book.
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Serious Gaming in South Carolina
In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, role play simulations serve as a powerful tool to help South Carolina communities address the impacts of climate change.
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Adapting to Rising Waters along the Hudson: Lessons from Piermont, NY
A small riverfront community in New York confronts the challenges of sea level rise head-on through work with CBI.
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Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge
As a coastal city, San Francisco faces impacts from rising sea levels, flooding and storms, so they launch a design competition to find novel planning solutions.
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Community Engagement in Federal Site Remediation
Community advisory groups (CAGs) can play an important role in engaging the community to manage long-term cleanup sites. However, it's vital to set them up for success.
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Companies, Communities & Responsible Engagement: What Palm Oil and Salmon Tell Us About Constructive Change in Latin America
Merrick Hoben and David Plumb explain three process observations from their work with palm oil and salmon in Latin America.
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Breaking the Gridlock: A New Path Forward for Congressional Budgeting
CBI and Convergence convened an unusual coalition of budget experts and advocates to brainstorm new ideas to improve managing the U.S. budget.
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The Pitfalls of Cognitive Bias
Cognitive biases can provide shortcuts to decision-making, but in complex and contentious processes, they often get in the way of making the best agreements.
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CBI Leads Summits to Address New York State Harmful Algal Blooms
When Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) threatened public health and drinking water safety, CBI helped convene regional summits and create 12 action plans to address water quality in New York.
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Penning a New Name: JFFI or Joint Fact Finding Institutions
Joint fact finding alone is not always enough when facing issues that span over broad geographic areas and may take years to examine.
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CBI Works with EITI-Implementing Countries to Strengthen Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
The global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) turned to CBI for assistance in helping a network of government officials organize into a working coalition.
