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Ted Trzyna Biographic Information
SUMMARY Director of public policy institute. Writer, lecturer, advisor to governmental agencies, and leader in nongovernmental organizations in the field of environmental and natural resource policy, both in California and internationally. Background in the public-interest, policy-research, diplomatic, and academic worlds. Particular experience in analyzing problems and finding innovative solutions, convening groups of leaders and experts, and synthesizing and presenting information and ideas from many sources. Among pioneers in defining and promoting sustainability as a process of relating political, social, cultural, economic, and ecological dimensions of public issues. In touch with new ideas through colleagues in many countries and longtime participation in international organizations. CURRENT POSITIONS President, InterEnvironment Institute / California Institute of Public Affairs, Sacramento and Claremont (since 1969)*; The institute, an affiliate of Claremont Graduate University, is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to improve decision-making on complex public issues by convening policy dialogues, conducting policy research, and publishing resource guides and policy studies. Most of its work is done with or through IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (see below) and includes California, as well as international, dimensions whenever possible. Senior Research Fellow, School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University (similar positions since 1989) Research Associate, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (since 2009) Member, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (since 1990); Steering Committee (since 2004) Leader, Cities and Protected Areas Specialist Group, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (since 2004) Member, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (since 2004) IUCN Commission Chair Emeritus (since 1996). See below. Senior Adviser, InterClimate Network (since 2008). See Climate. Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (elected 2005); former member, Board of Trustees Member, Advisory Board, Mojave Desert Land Trust (2007-) SELECTED RECENT MEETINGS (in reverse order) In addition to the formal meetings listed below, consultations and interviews have been held since 2003 in Croatia, France, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Palau, South Africa, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the USA.
At Barcelona, 2008
– Expert Meeting on Historic Urban Landscapes, UNESCO World Heritage Programme, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IUCN representative), 2009
– 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, Spain (delegate; organizer and chair of workshop, Climate Change as an Opportunity for Conservationists to Build New Alliances), 2008
– Consultations on organization of InterClimate, an international initiative for education and public involvement on climate change solutions, London and Oxford, UK, and Bonn, Germany (member of steering committee and Senior Adviser), 2008
– United Nations Climate Change Conference (13th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "COP-13"), Bali, Indonesia (member of observer delegation; participant in side events), 2007
– Workshop on Cities, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity, a side event at the Africities 4 Summit of local government leaders from African countries, Nairobi, Kenya (speaker, representing IUCN); and conferences at Ruma and Lake Nakuru national parks, Kenya (invited participant), 2006
– Workshop to plan the Local Action for Biodiversity initiative of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Rome, Italy, 2006 (invited participant, representing IUCN)
– Conference, "The Anthroporobotic Revolution" (speaker) and master's program in environmental policy (visiting lecturer), Universidad Anáhuac de Xalapa, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 2006
– Urban Nature 2006, and World Assembly, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Cape Town, South Africa, 2006 (speaker, representing IUCN)
– Retreat at Schumacher College, Dartington, England, to plan the University of Plymouth environmental studies program, 2005 (invited participant)
– General Assembly, World Academy of Art and Science (delegate), and Rudjer Boskovic Institute (speaker), Zagreb, Croatia, 2005
– 5th Global Meeting of Partners of the Sustainable Cities and Localizing Agenda 21 programs of the UN Environment Programme and UN-HABITAT, Havana, Cuba, 2005 (speaker, representing IUCN)
– 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 2004 (steering committee, panel organizer and chair, speaker)
– Workshop on dedication of Playas de Balandra as the first municipal protected area in the state of Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico, 2004 (speaker)
– Meeting of IUCN member organizations in the Mediterranean Region, Naples, Italy, 2004 (speaker)
– 10th MEDECOS Conference (International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists), Rhodes, Greece, 2004 (speaker)
– International Workshop on Cities and Conservation in the World's Mediterranean-type Ecosystems (IUCN Task Force on Cities and Protected Areas and Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy), Malibu, California, USA, 2005 (convenor and chair)
– IUCN 5th World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, 2004 (organizer and chair of workshop on "The Urban Imperative"; editor of resulting book) PREVIOUS POSITIONS Chairman, Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), 1990-96. Full-time concurrent position. (Commission Chair Emeritus since 1996.) IUCN is the umbrella organization of the world conservation movement; its members are governments and non-governmental organizations in some 140 countries. Served on IUCN’s governing Council and chaired one of its six commissions, working to improve the process of formulating and implementing policies for environmental protection and sustainable development. Career Foreign Service officer, U.S. Department of State, 1962-69. Assignments: American Vice Consul, Lubumbashi [then Elisabethville] and Kinshasa [then Leopoldville], Congo (during the Katanga secession and Simba revolt); Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, Washington (served as chief of secretariat of an interagency committee of the National Security Council). CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Founded and have directed a university-affiliated public policy institute since 1969, raising support for projects through a publishing program; grants from foundations, and contracts with state, federal, and international agencies. Have advised numerous U.S. federal, California state, foreign government, and international agencies, as well as nongovernmental organizations and selected business corporations, on environmental policy and sustainable development; these have ranged, e.g., from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Resources Agency of California, the Public Health Institute, and the government of the Brazilian state of Ceará (1972-present). Organized and chaired several events related to cities at the Third IUCN World Conservation Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2004. Secured passage of a Congress resolution calling for IUCN's program to take into account the complex array of connections between cities and larger environments. Organized and chaired an IUCN workshop on cities and conservation in the world's five Mediterranean type regions, Malibu, California, March 2004. This resulted in The Malibu Declaration calling for international action to protect such ecosystems, which in turn led to the Third IUCN World Conservation Congress (see above) adopting a unanimous recommendation on the subject. Organized and chaired a workshop, "The Urban Imperative: Urban Outreach Strategies for Protected Area Agencies," at IUCN's Fifth World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 2003. This has led to a book, articles, international workshops, and plans for IUCN activities on cities and conservation. Directed an international project on defining and measuring sustainable development, and edited the 17-author book that resulted, A Sustainable World (1993-95). Conducted an international project, funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and IUCN, to explore how the sustainability ethic can be built into decision-making; resulted in a report with specific recommendations (1994-95). As IUCN commission chairman, appointed and guided international working groups on policy tools, landscape conservation, national strategies for sustainable development, environmental ethics, management of common property, and population and environment (1990-96). As IUCN commission chairman, visited Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe; missions typically included speaking, conducting workshops, consulting with leaders, and visiting field projects, all related to environmental policy innovations (1990-96). Organized and chaired an international workshop, "The Power of Convening: Collaborative Policy Forums for Sustainable Development," bringing together practitioners and scholars from the U.S. and abroad to share experience and ideas on policy dialogues as a decision-making tool; resulted in an influential book (1989-90). Have organized and chaired high-level policy dialogues on such issues as strategic natural resource planning (1990-91), research for state government needs (1989-90), toxic waste (1985-87), protection of prime agricultural land (1982-83), and issues related to transportation of Alaskan oil and natural gas (1976). Served as Chairman of the Sierra Club International Committee (1977-79); and as Regional Vice President of the Sierra Club for Southern California, focusing especially on energy, desert, coastal, state park, and national forest issues (1975-77). Have been involved in numerous activities at The Claremont Colleges in California, 1967-present. CIPA has been affiliated with Claremont Graduate University 1972-present. Served on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California State Capital Center (2000-2006). As a young U.S. Foreign Service officer, assisted senior diplomats in crisis situations in Africa and high-level politico-military negotiations in Washington, France, Australia, New Zealand, and NATO commands (1960s). Delegate to all but one of IUCN's General Assemblies, now World Conservation Congresses, from 1972 to the present: Banff, Canada (1972), Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan (1978); Christchurch, New Zealand (1981); Madrid, Spain (1984); San José, Costa Rica (1988); Perth, Australia (1990); Buenos Aires, Argentina (1994); Montreal, Canada (1996); Amman, Jordan (2000); Bangkok, Thailand (2004); Barcelona, Spain, 2008. Delegate to, or participant in, many other international conferences, e.g., 1998 Conference on Sustainable Mountain Development, Quito, Ecuador; 1998 Conference of Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1992 World Parks Congress, Caracas, Venezuela; 2003 World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa. Speaker or organizer of panels at conferences sponsored by numerous organizations, ranging from the American Institute of Planners and Western States Petroleum Association to the Basque Government (Spain), The Environment Council (London), and the Municipality of La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Have visited 73 countries. Speak and read French; some knowledge of other languages. EDUCATION Ph.D., Government, Claremont Graduate University, 1975 Graduate studies in political science and African affairs, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-62 B.A., International Relations - Politics, University of Southern California, 1961 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Climate Change as an Opportunity for Conservationists to Build New Alliances: Report of a Workshop at the 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, October 2008. CIPA, 2009. Published for CIPA, InterClimate Network, and IUCN. Securing Protected Areas in the Face of Global Change (Contributor). Edited by Peter Shadie and Minna Epps. IUCN, 2008. Global Urbanization and Protected Areas: Challenges and opportunities posed by a major factor of urban change — and creative ways of responding. A report commissioned by the Ecosystems, Protected Areas, and People Project of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). IUCN, 2007. CIPA, 2007. Online CIPA version: www.InterEnvironment.org/cipa/urbanization.htm. "Urban dwellers and protected areas: Natural allies." In Jeffrey A. McNeely (ed.), Friends for Life: New partners in support of protected areas. IUCN, 2005. The Urban Imperative: Urban outreach strategies for protected area agencies: How those responsible for protected areas can better serve people in large cities and build stronger urban constituencies for nature conservation (editor and contributor). CIPA for IUCN and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, 2005. Information on print version at www.InterEnvironment.org/cipa/tui.htm. Text online at www.InterEnvironment.org/pa/papers2.htm. Climate Change and the California Public's Health. CIPA, 2003. A study for internal use of the Public Health Institute. "California's urban protected areas: Progress despite daunting pressures." Parks 11 (3), 2001, 4-15. Expanded version posted at www.interenvironment.org/cipa/urban.htm. "Raising annoying questions: Why values should be built into decision-making." Online Policy Paper, CIPA Publication No. 105, 2001. www.interenvironment.org/cipa/raising.htm. Based on a paper prepared for IUCN. "Sustainable development: Linking values and policy." In Dorinda G. Dallmeyer and Albert F. Ike (eds.), Environmental Ethics and the Global Marketplace. University of Georgia Press, 1998. A Sustainable World: Defining and measuring sustainable development (editor and contributor). CIPA and Earthscan for IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), 1995. 272 pages; 17 contributors from 5 continents. Choice, a journal of the American Library Association, said the book "Should be read by anyone interested in the future of the world’s human/economic/ environmental interactions." Lynton Keith Caldwell, the dean of environmental policy scholars, wrote in Environmental Conservation that "This book provides perhaps the most coherent answer we have yet had to [clarifying the concept of sustainability]." The Power of Convening: Collaborative policy forums for sustainable development (editor, with Ilze M. Gotelli, and contributor). CIPA/IUCN, 1990. "Convening Thinkers and Doers: Sweden's Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation." In The Power of Convening. Article posted at www.InterEnvironment.org/cipa/dhf.htm. General editor, California Information Guides Series. A series of resource guides on aspects of California’s society, economy, environment, government, and cultural life (1969-1999). Series includes: The California Handbook: A comprehensive guide to sources of information and action (principal editor). CIPA, 8 editions, 1969-1999. During its 30-year run, this was the standard guide to sources of information about the state. "No other contemporary guide covers so much California ground" — Los Angeles Times. "An astonishing compendium" — Sunset. "An important and valuable reference book" — Southern California Quarterly. General editor, Who’s Doing What Series. A series of resource guides on global problems (1972-present). Series includes: World Directory of Environmental Organizations: A handbook of national and international organizations and programs, governmental and non-governmental, concerned with protecting the Earth’s resources (6 print editions, 1972-2001; published in Web form from 2003-2008). The standard reference, previously published in print form by CIPA with IUCN and Earthscan (London), then published in Web form by CIPA in cooperation with IUCN. "Impressive . . . a valuable addition to the desk-equipment of working environmentalists and others throughout the world" — Environmental Conservation. "Shaped by the hand of an editor who possesses a feeling for the organizations he catalogs" — American Reference Books Annual. "An essential purchase for academic institutions with environment-related curricula" — Booklist. The California Environmental Quality Act: An innovation in state and local decision-making (principal author). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1974. Environmental Impact Requirements in the States: NEPA’s offspring. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1975. _______________ *The California Institute of Public Affairs changed its corporate name to InterEnvironment Institute in January 2010. CIPA continues as a program of IE.
Thaddeus (Ted) C. Trzyna InterEnvironment Institute P.O. Box 189040, Sacramento, California 95818, USA (1 916) 448-7387 E-mail: Ted_Trzyna[at]InterEnvironment.org [2/2010]
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