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About InterEnvironment |
InterEnvironment* is the international program of the California Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA). It was established in 1972, soon after CIPA was founded in 1969. InterEnvironment works through a global network of individuals who have extensive experience in international environmental affairs, particularly policy and social aspects of natural resource conservation. Many in this network have known each other and worked together on various projects for decades. They include founders and leaders of nongovernmental organizations, current and former government officials, writers, and academics. Typically they have combined or moved among these roles in their careers. Among the network are pioneers in explaining and promoting the concept of sustainability, defined as improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems. Applying this concept requires a systematic, long-range view of public affairs that combines political, social, cultural, and economic, as well as ecological concerns. Thus, the "Inter" in InterEnvironment stands for interconnections, as well as international. InterEnvironment and IUCN
Most of InterEnvironment's international work is done with IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, www.iucn.org. The California Institute of Public Affairs began working with IUCN in 1972 and became a member in 1980. From 1990-96 CIPA President Ted Trzyna served on IUCN’s governing Council and chaired one of its six commissions, on environmental strategy. Currently, he is Senior Adviser to the IUCN Secretariat on Cities and Conservation. He also leads the Task Force on Cities and Protected Areas of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas.
Current priorities and projects
For a description of current priorities and projects, please click here.
Past projects
Innovative policy tools. With IUCN, we have examined ways of improving environmental management by consulting leaders and researchers from around the world and holding workshops in two dozen countries on six continents. Recommendations have been made on strategies for sustainability, conservation of cultural landscapes, linking population and environmental concerns, building the sustainability ethic into decision-making, and connecting people who work on urban issues with those working on problems of managing larger ecosystems.
Resource guides. We have produced many resource guides and reports on environmental and related global problems.
Sustainability: from concept to action. Based on an IUCN
workshop we organized on translating the idea of sustainability into
practice, we produced a state-of-the-art, 17-contributor volume, A
Sustainable World: Defining and Measuring Sustainable Development. The
American Library Association’s journal Choice said the book "Should
be read by anyone interested in the future of the world’s
human-economic-environmental interactions."
California and the international arena. We promote exchange of experience between California, other countries, and international organizations by hosting visitors and organizing study trips, most recently on protected areas, biodiversity policy, waste management, global climate change, and linking inner-city environmental and social issues. --------------- *InterEnvironmentSM is a service mark of the California Institute of Public Affairs. See Copyright & caveats.
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