Complete Alphabetical
Listing of Publications
Bio-pharming in Colorado: A Guide to Issues for Making Informed Choices.
2004.
Agriculture is in a new era – an era when genetically engineered
crops might be successfully grown not only for human and livestock food,
but also to produce medicine and industrial chemicals. This report provides
a framework by which policy makers and communities can determine the
potential economic development benefits and the health, environment,
and market-related risks of bio-pharming.
Bio-pharming
summary report
Bio-pharming full report
Bringing Health Disparities into Public Policies and Practices: A Template
for Initiating and Expanding Dialogue. 2007.
This template, based on the Connecting Colorado policy brief,
helps decisionmakers and other health stakeholders discover more effective
ways to address health disparities.
Health Disparities
template
Community Capacity Assessment – Designing a Systems of Care
in Child Welfare. 2004.
To help a Colorado county create an integrated social service delivery
system, it was necessary to discover the variety of government, non-profit
and faith-based social service resources unknown to the county. Identification
of the resources uniquely combined two techniques -- cognitive mapping
in conjunction with Geographic Information System (GIS) -- to analyze
the availability, capacity, and distribution of social services.
Community
summary report Systems
of Care literature review
Community full
report PowerPoint
presentation
Connecting Colorado: Overcoming the Disconnects that Lead to Health
Disparities. 2007.
Reducing health disparities means overcoming breakdowns in communication,
understanding, and information among health stakeholders. This policy
brief explores opportunities for better system-wide communication and
integration, with recommendations for health consumers, community-based
healthcare providers, health agencies, funders, and policymakers.
Health Disparities
policy brief
Forest and Rangeland Management in the Intermountain West: Emerging
Opportunities for Collaboration. 2006.
Collaborative resource management has the potential to create innovative
and effective solutions to utilizing and preserving the West's rangelands.
In addition, an inclusive collaborative process creates legitimate and
broadly supported land management policies.
Rangeland paper
Living in the Rocky Mountain West, 2025: Series Preview. 2005.
The Rocky Mountain West is an area of unique resources and opportunities.
This paper introduces a series of six white papers forthcoming from
the Colorado Institute of Public Policy. Paper topics include: Water,
Demographics, Energy, Governance, Public Health, and Development.
Series preview
report
Living in the Rocky Mountain West, Water
2025: Beliefs and Values as a Means for Cooperation. 2006.
The Rocky Mountain West continually faces complicated and rapidly changing
water policy challenges. Today, water issues are fundamentally about
the people of the West, and the diverse beliefs and values that they
hold. To illustrate how beliefs and values are connected to water challenges,
this paper highlights the results of two surveys given to 84 stakeholders
in Colorado.
Water
report
PowerPoint
presentation
Water Research Interpretation and Evaluation Template. 2006.
This template helps users identify the strengths and weaknesses of research
sources and clarify additional information. The template can be
used to compare multiple studies of similar issues, or explore a single
study in detail.
Water Research template
Tactics for Negotiating
Agreements. 2006.
A negotiation framework has many different shapes, drawing not only
from the most traditional negotiation literature, but also from literature
on mediation, facilitation, policy dialogues, consensus processes, decision-rules,
and information and fact gathering processes. This paper explores approaches
to collaborative decision-making with an emphasis on their similarities
and differences to one another.
Negotiation
paper
