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Achieving environmental sustainability requires
both state-of-science ecological analysis and full consensus among
all stakeholders. Cutting edge analysis that the parties neither
grasp nor accept is useless, and consensus based on misconceptions
about how ecological and social systems work may crumble upon implementation.
ESSA Technologies Ltd. offers both scientific excellence and professional
facilitation services for sound and consensual resolution of environmental
challenges.
Since 1979 we've worked with clients in Canada
and abroad to co-produce leading edge tools of ecological analysis.
Our recognized leadership in terrestrial
and aquatic ecology, integrated
ecosystem management, environmental monitoring, state of environment
reporting and impact assessment
have been linked to facilitated workshops and training to empower
clients. The aim has always been to build capacity among stakeholders
for solving difficult problems. Consistent with this goal, ESSA
provides professional expertise in public consultation and dispute
resolution.
Some of the ways that ESSA helps clients and
multi-party groups include: designing and managing full mediation
processes aimed at environmental consensus building; negotiating
environmental management partnerships; designing and convening policy
dialogues and round tables; building institutional capacity for
management and co-management of natural resources; joint fact-finding;
cooperative research design; ecological
modelling to facilitate stakeholder understanding of science-intensive
debates; and collaborative community consensus-building.
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Round Table Publishes Landmark Consensus-building Guide
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