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Subject: [conservation-psychology] Workshop on education,
     information and voluntary measures

Below is the agenda for workshop the Committee on Human Dimensions of Global 
Change is sponsoring.  Anyone interested is welcome to attend but space is 
limited, so if you are interested, please contact Paul Stern at 
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Please forward as appropriate and apologies for cross-posting.
Tom Dietz


Thomas Dietz, Ph.D.
Chair, U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global 
Change
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Public Policy
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia  22030  U.S.A

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             NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
               Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

                                  Workshop on
   Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures in Environmental Protection
                              November 29-30, 2000
                           National Research Council
                            Green Building, Room 126
                          2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
                                 Washington DC

                                  Draft Agenda


November 29, 2000
INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION
9:00 am   Session 1:  The Potential for Education, Information, and Voluntary
          Measures

Changes in Pollution and the Implications for Policy - Jim Salzman, American
University and David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution
     To what extent has there been a shift in the balance of pollution sources
from point- to non-point sources, from production processes to consumption
processes, from organizations to households, from manufacturing to commercial
and residential sectors?  If there is such a shift, what are the implications
for the use of EPA's typical regulatory strategies?

Discussion:  M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00 am  Break


INFORMATION AND EDUCATION FOR INDIVIDUALS AND HOUSEHOLDS

10:15 am  Session 2:  Social marketing approaches.
     With social marketing, a set of target behaviors is defined in advance, 
and
efforts are aimed at increasing the prevalence of those behaviors.  Three
presentations will focus on the use of education and information to increase
target proenvironmental behaviors; two will address other well-studied 
behaviors
that are promoted for their social benefits.

Promoting household energy conservation - Loren Lutzenhiser, Washington State
University

Promoting household recycling - P. Wesley Schultz, California State 
University,
California State University, San Marcos

Promoting green consumerism with product information - John Thøgerson, Aarhus
School of Business

Discussant:  Paul Stern, National Research Council

12:15          Lunch

1:15 pm
Public health communication - Tom Valente, Johns Hopkins University

Promoting household disaster preparedness - Dennis Mileti, Colorado University

Discussion
     Discussion will aim to draw general lessons out of the collected 
knowledge,
to separate general lessons from those that are specific to certain kinds of
target behaviors, and to clarify the factors that make some lessons specific 
and
others general.  It will also consider the overall potential of social 
marketing
approaches to improve environmental conditions, both alone and in combination
with other policy instruments.
Discussant:  Mark Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania

2:45 pm   Break

3: 00 pm  Session 3:  Public education approaches.
A public education philosophy does not identify specific target behaviors.  It
assumes that a well-educated public will take action to protect the 
environment,
but not necessarily any particular action.

School-based environmental education - John Ramsey, University of Houston

Adult environmental education - Elaine Andrews, University of Wisconsin

Environmental information on a right-to-know basis - Jeanne Herb, Tellus
Institute

Discussion
     Discussion will again aim to draw general lessons and to separate general
lessons from those that are specific to certain educational approaches.  It 
will
also consider the overall potential of public education to improve 
environmental
conditions and the appropriateness of environmental improvement as a criterion
for success of these efforts.
Discussants:  to be determined

5:00 pm   Adjourn



November 30, 2000
9:00 am   Reconvene

VOLUNTARY MEASURES FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES

     Recent years have seen a proliferation of programs that are widely
considered non-regulatory and non-economic and that aim to improve the
environmental performance of firms, industries, and communities.  The variety 
is
so great that there is no generally accepted typology of these initiatives, 
let
alone systematic evaluations of the effectiveness of each type.  Presentations
will classify the initiatives and present and discuss evidence concerning the
effects of important examples of the main types.


9:00 am   Session 4:  Voluntary measures for firms

Voluntary measures for firms:  A typology and theoretical issues - Richard N.
Andrews, Univ. of North Carolina

Government-sponsored programs for firms - Janice Mazurek, Huntington Beach, CA

Voluntary codes of practice:  Nongovernmental institutions for promoting
environmental management by firms  -  Jennifer Nash, Technology, Business, and
Environment Program, MIT

Evaluating the effectiveness of voluntary measures - Kathryn Harrison, Univ. 
of
British Columbia

Theoretical issues with measures for firms - Franco Furger, George Mason
University

Discussion
     Discussants will address additional issues such as the roles of factors
within firms, interactions between firms and partners, and the effects of
international trade patterns and regimes.  Open discussion will again seek
general and specialized knowledge and address key policy questions, including
the issue of how much voluntary action depends on the shadow of regulation.
Discussants:
Alan Randall, Ohio State University
Aseem Prakash, George Washington University [to be invited]

.
12:30 pm  Lunch


1:30 pm   Session 5.  Voluntary measures in communities
Conditions affecting the ability of communities to implement effective 
measures
? Daniel Press, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant:  Troy Abel, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

3:00 pm   Break

3:15 pm   Session 6.  Policy Implications

What is the potential of these measures? How can the understanding be achieved
that will enable them to achieve their potential?  Discussants (to be named)
will open the session with remarks on behavioral, organizational, policy, and
research issues.

Discussion Panel:  Thomas Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Others to be invited

Open Discussion

5:00 pm   Adjourn


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