The Society of Policy Scientists will hold its annual research meeting at CMC's Bauer Forum on Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27. The sessions, open to the community, will cover a wide range of public policy topics including environment, nutrition, education, law, national security, and humanitarian assistance.
Friday's session begins with an 8:30 continental breakfast at Bauer Center, followed by a welcome and introduction at 9 a.m. by Murray Rutherford, vice president and chair of the program committee; Bill Ascher, CMC's Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics and institute host; and committee president Andrew Willard, University of Iowa and Policy Sciences Center, Inc.
Friday's afternoon programming continues with:
9:15-10:45 a.m.: Environmental Knowledge and the Policy Process
Chair: Bill Ascher, CMC
The Roles of Environmental Knowledge in the Policy Process
Ascher;
Toddi Steelman, North Carolina State University
The Ecology of Organizations Project in Greater Yellowstone
Garry Brewer, Yale University
Science, Law, and Policy: How Science Gets Lost in Policy and What Does Policy Science Have to Offer (Ways of Knowing in Science, Law and Policy)
Ann Clarke, NASA Ames Research Center
Discussion
10:45-11 a.m. Break
11 a.m.-Noon Institutions and Sustainability
Chair: David Cherney, University of Colorado at Boulder
Discussant: Todd Steelman
Business and Public Policy: Responses to Environmental and Social Protection Processes
Jorge Rivera, The George Washington University
[TBA]
Kreszentia Duer, World Bank Institute
Discussion
Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch (individual plans)
1:30-3 p.m. Policy Problems in International Settings
Chair: Richard Wallace, Ursinus College
Discussant: Matthew Auer, Indiana University
Planning for Extreme Events: A Case Study from Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia
Lee Tryhorn and Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Australia
Matching Goods and People: A Case Study of Emergency Assistance in Thailand after the Tsunami
Jin Sato, The University of Tokyo
New Principles for Humanitarian Assistance
Raymond Hopkins, Swarthmore College
Discussion
3-3:15p.m.: Break
3:15-4:15 Improving the Performance of Resource Management Agencies (Part I)
Panel: The Federal Role in Diffusing Collaborative Resource ManagementExamples and Questions from Cooperative Conservation and Community Fire Planning Policies
Chair: Susan Iott, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Discussant: Christina Cromley Bruner, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Office of Inspector General
Susan Iott, U.S. General Accountability Office
Christine Feehan, U.S. General Accountability Office
Discussion
4:15-5:15 Improving the Performance of Resource Management Agencies (Part II)
Panel: Improving Professional Practice in Resource Management AgenciesCase Studies of New Interventions
Chair: Doug Clark, University of Alberta
Doug Clark, University of Alberta
David Lee, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
David Mattson, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, and Yale University
Discussion
Saturday, Oct. 27
Bauer Center Forum, Claremont McKenna College
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee and muffins
9-10:30 a.m. Panel: Law Science and Policy Recent Developments
Charles Norchi, University of Maine, Harvard University
Andrew Willard, University of Iowa and Policy Sciences Center, Inc.
Jay Heffron, Soka University of America
Discussion
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel: Framing, Convening and Addressing Nutrition ProblemsWho, How and With What Outcomes and Effects? The Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative
Chair: David Pelletier, Cornell University
David Pelletier, Cornell University
Renee Hill, Cornell University
Alexandra Lewin, Cornell University
Edward Frongillo, University of South Carolina
Wendy Gonzalez, University of South Carolina
Discussion
12:15-1:30 Lunch (individual plans)
1:30-3 p.m. Panel: Large Carnivores, People and GovernanceAppraising Decision Process
Chair: Murray Rutherford, Simon Fraser University
David Mattson, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, and Yale University
Doug Clark, University of Alberta
Seth Wilson, Yale University and Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative
Emily Chamberlain, Canadian Wildlife Service
Murray Rutherford, Simon Fraser University
Discussion
3-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Society Business, Planning and Self-Reflection Chair: Andrew Willard, President of the Society of Policy Scientists
In this session, we will appraise Society growth and explore and discuss
future options. Trends in membership, attendance, and activities, including
collaborations with other organizations, will be discussed. Engagement
with non-academic practitioners may be an alternative worth pursuing.
Other topics are welcomed.
4:45-5 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Bill Ascher, Institute host
Murray Rutherford, vice president and chair of the program committee