Canada Venezuela Academic Exchange on Sustainability

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Canada Venezuela Academic Exchange on
Sustainability

• Ian Greene
• Research interests
• Project Proposals

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Research Interests

• Democratic administration
• Appropriate public participation in public policy
  development and evaluation of government programs
• Participation from within the public service in
  strategic and operational planning
• Successful sustainability projects require
  appropriate public consultation in order to
  ensure public support for the project

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Appropriate stakeholder input

• Factors for success in participative community
  planning
• Support from top leadership Minister and Deputy
  Minister
• Involvement of all relevant stakeholder groups
• Steering by a representative group of the larger
  group
• Excellent facilitation skills
• A planning process supported by research
  (research will help to settle differences between
  stakeholder groups)
• Agreement to implement recommendations if costs
  remain same
• See Ian Greene Peter Gabor, Factors for
  Success in Participative Community Planning
  Lessons from a Case Study in Child Welfare in the
  Province of Alberta, The Innovation Journal,
  Case Studies, 2002. (http//www.innovation.cc)

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Other research interests

• Judicial administration
• The court system is an institution in which some
  parties often have an interest in preventing
  trial within a reasonable time. An inefficient
  justice system can sabatoge sustainability
  projects. What procedures can be put into place
  that promote timely resolution of disuputes
  without violating human rights?
• Ethical politics
• Principles of ethical politics are based on the
  principle of mutual respect
• Prevention of conflicts of interest
• Prevention of undue influence
• Promotion of honesty
• Ensure that elected and appointed officials serve
  the public interest, not private interests.

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Possible joint projects

• Any project that studies democratic participation
  in the development, implementation or evaluation
  of sustainability projects
• Any project that studies the impact of litigation
  on sustainable development
• Any project that studies the ethics of the
  political process with regard to sustainability
  projects