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Collaboration and Offshore Wind Development
Offshore wind development is rapidly accelerating in U.S waters – and diverse new and traditional users, and their interests, need to be balanced. Senior Mediator Bennett Brooks and Managing Director Patrick Field suggest that processes must accommodate substantial uncertainty as agencies, stakeholders, and developers venture into previously uncharted waters. They argue that collaboration among participating agencies and across jurisdictions is key to sustaining cooperation and trust, and avoiding costly and painful conflict as offshore wind development expands.
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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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Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning
CBI works closely with the Northeast Regional Planning Body to gather meaningful feedback from stakeholders as it develops a regional ocean plan.
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To Retreat or Not Retreat? That is Not Even a Question.
CBI brings together a wide range of stakeholders to wrestle with complex questions around sea level rise, community engagement, and adaptation.
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Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Readiness, Engagement, and Adaptation
While local, collective action on risk management is critical for climate adaptation, many communities lack the capacity for robust adaptation planning. This book highlights the potential of role-play simulations for engaging the public and preparing them to act in the face of impending climate changes.
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The Effects of Climate Change Are All Local: Here's What You Can Do to Help Manage the Risks
For coastal communities already feeling the impacts of climate change, CBI's book shows how climate risk simulations and structured community dialogue can help accelerate the adoption of risk management measures that everyone agrees upon.
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Smith Island: Creating a Vision for the Future
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, CBI and Horsley Witten Group lead a community-driven dialogue, or visioning process, on the impact of natural hazards and on the many challenges to life on Smith Island.
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At Risk: Southwest Florida’s Caloosahatchee River and Estuary
CBI helps local South Florida stakeholders develop a shared vision for the Caloosahatchee River and its estuary.
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Who Gets What on Our Shrinking Planet?
CBI’s 20th Anniversary Symposium brings together an extraordinary, global group of colleagues to generate ideas on how collaboration can help mitigate and resolve present and future conflicts.
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Shrinking Planet: Water
On its 20th Anniversary, CBI highlights how effective collaboration and conflict resolution can lead to better management of water sources for a diverse range of purposes and users.
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Helping Coastal Communities Prepare for Climate Change
CBI uses role-play simulations to build the capacity of at-risk towns and cities along coastlines to adapt to the effects of climate change.
