Case Studies
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![Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board]()
Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board
CBI helps the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board build its capacity for mediation by providing customized trainings, revising their policies, and evaluating program effectiveness.
CBI helps the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board build its capacity for mediation by providing customized trainings, revising their policies, and evaluating the effectiveness of their program.
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![Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities in Rhode Island]()
Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities in Rhode Island
CBI helps KeepSpace with their unique, holistic approach to community planning and development in three Rhode Island communities.
CBI helps KeepSpace, an initiative of Rhode Island Housing, by providing facilitated, collaborative stakeholder engagement with residents, local businesses, nonprofit organizations, and municipal and state agencies in three Rhode Island communities.
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![Facilitating Collaborative Efforts to Improve Air Quality in Boston]()
Facilitating Collaborative Efforts to Improve Air Quality in Boston
CBI facilitates a coalition of public, private, and government entities working to improve air quality in Boston.
Through Greater Boston Breathes Better and the Boston Air Quality Working Group, CBI facilitates a coalition of public, private, and government entities working to improve air quality in Boston and manages a related effort to bring together researchers, policy makers, and community advocates to discuss air quality issues.
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![Joint Environmental Mediation Training in the Middle East]()
Joint Environmental Mediation Training in the Middle East
CBI co-founds the Joint Environmental Mediation Service; trains Israelis and Palestinians in mediation and negotiation; and supervises trainees as they mediate active disputes.
CBI partners with the Middle East think-tank Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information to create the Joint Environmental Mediation Service, which trains Israelis and Palestinians in mediation and negotiation and supervises trainees as they mediate active disputes.
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![Facilitating Improved Community Planning in Falmouth, Maine]()
Facilitating Improved Community Planning in Falmouth, Maine
CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment, engaging community members with interviews, surveys, and forums about land use planning; produces a land use report with specific recommendations.
CBI helps the town of Falmouth, Maine improve land use planning by conducting a stakeholder assessment, engaging community members, and producing a final report of recommendations.
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![Facilitating a Stakeholder Engagement Process to Revitalize Meriden, CT]()
Facilitating a Stakeholder Engagement Process to Revitalize Meriden, CT
CBI helps the Town of Meriden, CT create recommendations for downtown revitalization by conducting a stakeholder assessment and facilitating a public engagement process.
CBI helps the downtown revitalization efforts of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut by gathering recommendations via a stakeholder assessment and facilitating a public engagement process, creating long-term support for the project.
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![Facilitating Stakeholder Engagement Around a Superfund Cleanup in Connecticut]()
Facilitating Stakeholder Engagement Around a Superfund Cleanup in Connecticut
CBI conducts an issues assessment around a contentious Superfund cleanup site in Stratford, Connecticut and facilitates a community advisory committee.
CBI conducts an issues assessment around a contentious Superfund cleanup site in Stratford, Connecticut and facilitates a community advisory committee.
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![Transforming a Decade-Long Wastewater Dispute on Cape Cod from Contention to Collaboration]()
Transforming a Decade-Long Wastewater Dispute on Cape Cod from Contention to Collaboration
CBI and partners mediate a multi-stakeholder process in developing innovative solutions for managing wastewater.
CBI and Water Resources Associates help the Town of Orleans initiate and facilitate a consensus building process to reach agreement among its stakeholders on a Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan.
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![Shaping Consumer Demand for Healthier Eating]()
Shaping Consumer Demand for Healthier Eating
CBI helped bring warring sectors together to tackle the obesity epidemic.
CBI partners with the nonprofit Convergence on Nutrition and Wellness project aimed at building consumer demand for healthy foods.
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![California Passes Landmark Groundwater Management Law]()
California Passes Landmark Groundwater Management Law
CBI helped build consensus among deeply divided parties to define framework for legislation.
CBI facilitates conversations among water managers in California’s Central Valley to map out central elements of a sustainable groundwater policy, laying the foundation for the state's landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which passed in 2014.
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![Changing Direction on Ohio Highway Project]()
Changing Direction on Ohio Highway Project
CBI facilitates process that builds collaboration on addressing transportation needs in Ohio's Eastern Corridor.
CBI facilitates a process that leads to deeper collaboration among parties in setting transportation priorities in Ohio's Eastern Corridor, and a departure from a plan to relocate State Route 32.
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![Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation in Sonoma County, California]()
Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation in Sonoma County, California
CBI partners with local agencies to develop a decision-making and governance structure for the county’s Groundwater Sustainability Agency designee.
Sonoma County engages CBI to help build consensus on how to create a governance and decision-making structure to form a groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014.
