Expertise: Environmental Dispute Resolution
Faculty
| Group Index | Group | Image | Profile | Title | Expertise | News |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Faculty |  | Rumore, Danya | Director, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program | Environmental Dispute Resolution |
News and Events
Less but Better: An Investment in Avoiding Unnecessary Conflict
By Danya Rumore “It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” -Madeleine L’Engle It is not often that I find myself reflecting on a book pretty much every day—and mentioning it to friends and colleagues almost as often. However, in a time when people generally seem to be stretched a little too thin, […]
The Utah Resilience Map: Making Connections Between Local Sustainability Projects
By Emily Nicolosi for EDRBlog.org Online collaborative community resource mapping is a new phenomenon that helps to connect local organizations and volunteers in building more sustainable and social justice cities. One such effort, #MapJam, boasts maps of grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons in 72 cities on 6 continents, including our project […]
Keep your knees bent while facilitating
By Wendy Green Lowe for EDRblog.org. I grew up in a household of skiers. The lessons I earned about staying upright while skiing hold true for effective facilitation as well. We started skiing by the age of five years. It was either go skiing, or stay home with a baby sitter. You can guess what […]
Using Serious Games to Help Communities Make Progress on Serious Problems
By Danya Rumore for EDRblog.org Addressing environmental, natural resource, and public policy issues is serious business. Making progress on concerns such as water resources management and air quality often requires helping diverse stakeholders recognize their shared challenges, work through differing perspectives and interests, and accept tough trade-offs. The seriousness of such issues should not be undervalued […]
The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership Uses the Open Standards Process
This post originally appeared on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network’s blog in May 2016. We are reposting it with the permission of both the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network and author Bill Tripp. The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership (WKRP) effort explores a path toward collaborative fire management in the Western Klamath landscape. It arose […]
New research by law school’s Rumore is altering the game of climate change
Could turning climate change into a game inspire communities to seriously consider climate change risks and what they need to do to adapt? Danya Rumore, who holds a joint appointment at the University of Utah as associate director of the S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Environmental Dispute Resolution Program and as a research assistant professor […]
Collaboration Is a Better Way to Solve Our Most Difficult Problems
By Lauren Barros for EDRblog.org. Several years ago, I became a member of the Collaborative Family Lawyers of Utah. It made sense to me to encourage families to seek to resolve their problems collaboratively, rather than in court. Although most of my clients do not use a formal collaborative process, I incorporate principles of collaborative […]
EDR program cited in Priest River, Idaho land use discussion
Editor’s note: The grant received for Project 7B is from the LOR Foundation, not the College of Law EDR program as noted in the Priest River Times story. The Wallace Stegner Center’s Environmental Dispute Resolution program (EDR program) was cited as a facilitator of land use planning in northern Idaho community of Priest River. A new […]
EDR Program offers course on Effective Natural Resources Collaboration
The Wallace Stegner Center’s Environmental Dispute Resolution Program is offering a short course on effective natural resource collaboration. The course consists of six 1.5-day sessions held at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. The program received $5,000 in scholarship support from the Huntsman Corporation and $5,000 from the The I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Charitable Foundation. Application […]
Let Those Affected By Decisions Really Affect Those Decisions
By Larry Schooler for EDRblog.org There’s a lot that our government could do beyond giving people three minutes at a public-hearing podium. “This is America. We want to make it easier for people to participate.” So said President Obama in his final State of the Union address. Beyond the partisan divides around some of the […]