Craig Diamond, Sierra Club Conservation Policy Committee, retired

Join us for the livestream November 1st, 11:45am ET: https://youtube.com/live/ye77_O_E6Dc?feature=share

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ABSTRACT

Diamond reflects on the past 40 years of his work in public policy and environmental economics as influenced by his time and interactions at the Center for Wetlands. He will provide snapshots of a number of his key projects and activities that relied on systems thinking, modeling and simulation, ecosystems science and emergy; how these projects resonated (or not); and the challenges of operating in the marketplace of ideas. 

BIO

Diamond has more than 40 years’ experience in the fields of water resources, natural resource economics, and GIS applications, as well as land use and transportation planning. He retired as Regional Manager, Economics, for the Balmoral Group, a consultancy for the public sector. Diamond worked as a local and regional government planner and served as Chief of State Planning at the Florida Department of Community Affairs. He was a senior researcher at Florida Atlantic University and adjunct faculty within the state university system teaching environmental sciences, water resources and resource economics. He serves on the board of the Apalachicola Bay & Riverkeeper focusing on resource management matters and is a member of the Sierra Club’s national Conservation Policy Committee.

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