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Paris, Glasgow: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward on the U.S. International Climate Agenda
Get PDFAlan Yu discusses the major outcomes of COP26 -- the advances made and challenges that remain, and the Biden Administration\u27s strategy in 2022 and over the medium term to drive global climate action in the decisive decade of the 2020s. Which will be the key countries where Washington will seek stronger and faster action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and what is the plan? How will the United States help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the increasingly grave impacts from the climate crisis? And how will we pay for it?
Alan Yu is a senior advisor for U.S. Special Presidential Advisor for Climate John Kerry, focusing on U.S. climate policy strategy with countries in the Indo-Pacific region. From 2019-21 he was a senior fellow and the director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress (CAP), where he led CAP’s work to advance a progressive agenda to restore U.S. climate change diplomatic leadership in driving global climate action. From 2014-18, Alan served as the Department of Energy’s Director for Asian Affairs, where he coordinated the efforts and resources of the full range of DOE\u27s senior leadership, technical offices and national labs to assure a unified strategy in U.S. energy policy and technical engagement with countries in Northeast, Southeast and South Asia. Prior to DOE, Alan served for 25 years as a U.S. diplomat at the State Department, with postings in Washington, China, Japan and Afghanistan. Alan received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley
Climate Change in the Rural Northwest: Learning from Malden
Get PDFOn September 7, 2020 wildfires raged through northern Whitman County, Washington, fanned by wind gusts as high as 50 mph. The Babb Road Fire consumed more than 15,000 acres of Palouse farmland and habitat and engulfed the towns of Malden and Pine City, forcing nearly 200 residents to evacuate. The fast-moving fire consumed the Town of Malden in only two and a half hours, spewing briquette-sized embers and destroying 80% of the town\u27s buildings, many down to their foundations. Among the rubble are the majority of homes and the town\u27s only post office, town hall, fire station, food bank, and library.
Scott Hokonson is Project Director for the Pine Creek Community Long Term Restoration Group. He is a Malden firefighter and Malden town council member who was working towards his masters in urban planning and social work when Malden burned in the Labor Day fires of 2020. Hokonson will discuss the urgency of planning to be resilient to our changing climate and lessons learned that can help other communities in the Inland Northwest
The Follower as Servant
Get PDFWhat is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word leader? I imagine it conjures images of power and influence. Some think of wealth and status. Some think of specific individuals who represent leadership to them. Often leaders are thought of in very positive ways. Some might even say mythical ways (Bennis, 1999). Everyone wants to be thought of as a leader. In fact, research suggests most people do think of themselves as leaders (Laurent, 1978). Parents want their children to be leaders, not followers. Indeed, when someone says that one is a follower, it is generally not a compliment. However, people actually spend far more time in the position or role of follower (Kelley, 1992). Now, what comes to your mind when you think of the word: follower. I suspect the images are ones of blind obedience, passivity, perhaps even weakness. Sheep are a common metaphor that comes to mind for many. When we combine these first thoughts about leadership and followership, the conception of the relationship between leaders and followers is one of strength and greatness contrasted with and presiding over weakness, passivity, and obedience. While this conceptual paradigm of the relationship between leaders and followers is relative common, it is nonetheless inconsistent with the realities of the leader-follower dynamic. The relationship between leaders and followers is far more dynamic and varied than these default paradigms suggest. This is particularly true when one adds the term servant to the leader-follower dynamic. This article explores the impact of this addition with a particular emphasis on the concept of the servant-follower
Servant-Leaders as Co-Laborers: A Field Philosophy Model
Get PDFIn 2013, Professor R. Edward Freeman joked about his father’s sarcastic witticism in response to his choice of career. The joke is not that philosophy is a feckless art, but rather that its modern practice has been relegated to the realm of theory, with incredibly salient subject matter but a practice that is seemingly ineffectual in the everyday world. Justice is one such area of interest for philosophers; however, abstract theoretical or philosophical justice, especially in relation to environmental resources and in consideration of environmental relationships, is increasingly meaningless for contemporary society. Environmental injustice is lived and experienced, it is realized by marginal populations every day (Shiva, 2006). Philosophers working on environmental justice must both understand and enter into this reality to do effective work. In other words, work done on environmental justice must be first and foremost practice-oriented. The overarching title that has been ascribed to this new branch is “field philosophy,” but the conversation is only nascent concerning how and what philosophy in the field looks like for traditional philosophers (Frodeman, 2010). To that end I have constructed a model that aims to fold together justice as praxis, with the deep and historical roots of philosophy as community-life. This model is built upon the tenets of servant-leadership practice, as promulgated by Robert Greenleaf (2002), and addresses both the practical and theoretical elements of environmental justice in an effort to enhance philosopher’s utility as servant-leaders. Here I argue for two reasons why servant-leadership serves as the basis for this field philosophy model. The first is because of the overlap in the pursuits of environmental justice philosophers and those of servant-leaders while the second is because the actions of those doing the work of environmental justice philosophy most often display servant-leadership qualities. Servant-leaders who work with the aim of improving the lives of the least privileged and most disadvantaged in society, working to make others more free, autonomous, wise, and healthy (Greenleaf, 2002). For field philosophers in environmental justice I call this the practice of co-laboring with the marginalized and oppressed. In this paper, I present two such co-laborers who have engaged in the work of field philosophy for environmental justice as servant-leaders: Marisol de la Cadena and Adam Briggle. Their efforts support and explain the model offered here, which others could emulate and adopt in pursuit of environmental justice reforms as servant-leaders
The Cooperation Databank: Machine-Readable Science Accelerates Research Synthesis
Get PDFPublishing studies using standardized, machine-readable formats will enable machines to perform meta-analyses on demand. To build a semantically enhanced technology that embodies these functions, we developed the Cooperation Databank (CoDa)—a databank that contains 2,636 studies on human cooperation (1958–2017) conducted in 78 societies involving 356,283 participants. Experts annotated these studies along 312 variables, including the quantitative results (13,959 effects). We designed an ontology that defines and relates concepts in cooperation research and that can represent the relationships between results of correlational and experimental studies. We have created a research platform that, given the data set, enables users to retrieve studies that test the relation of variables with cooperation, visualize these study results, and perform (a) meta-analyses, (b) metaregressions, (c) estimates of publication bias, and (d) statistical power analyses for future studies. We leveraged the data set with visualization tools that allow users to explore the ontology of concepts in cooperation research and to plot a citation network of the history of studies. CoDa offers a vision of how publishing studies in a machine-readable format can establish institutions and tools that improve scientific practices and knowledge
The Very Model of a Modern Teacher-training Program
Get PDFGonzaga University\u27s MA/TESOL program developed organically from within the university\u27s ESL program, guided by a philosophical model comprising of three modes of authority: compassion, scholarship, and invention (Jeannot, 1997). This article assesses the success of the model from the faculty and student perspectives
Protocol versus Practice: Deviations from 2 Guidelines in Low-Risk Twin Deliveries in the United States
Get PDFBackground
Medical guidelines recommend vaginal delivery for low-risk twin pregnancies because cesareans increase the probability of maternal morbidity and mortality. Yet, vaginal delivery rates for twins are considerably lower than for comparable singletons. One explanation for this disparity argues that greater risk associated with twins warrants increased surgical intervention. An alternative explanation is that twin deliveries are more likely to deviate from protocols that advise vaginal birth. Methods
Using the 2017 Natality Detail File (N = 3,197,401), we measured alignment of vaginal birth and trial of labor (TOL) with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ guidelines for twin and singleton no-indicated-risk births. We calculated predicted probabilities for the population and by maternal race/ethnicity to assess whether low rates of vaginal births among twins are explained by associated risk factors, or by deviations from recommended delivery methods. Results
Overall, 31.2% of twins were born vaginally compared with 79.4% of singletons. Controlling for indicated risks, the predicted probability of vaginal birth for twins was 0.49 and 0.85 for singletons. The predicted probability of TOL for twins was 0.18 and 0.47 for singletons. Maternal race/ethnicity was only weakly associated with mode of delivery. These findings indicate that no-indicated-risk twin pregnancies, across maternal racial/ethnic categories, have lower probabilities of vaginal birth and TOL than would be expected with widespread adherence to current guidelines. Conclusions
Given the life-threatening consequences that may result from unnecessary surgical procedures, our findings highlight the need for further research to illuminate medical and nonmedical mechanisms driving nonadherence to clinical guidelines for twin births
Tracing the Nine Servant-Leadership Anthologies from 1995 to the Present
Get PDFIn this article, Shann Ferch, Jiying Song, Philip Mathew, and Larry C. Spears share some thoughts and reflections on the series of nine servant-leadership anthologies on which they have had direct involvement to-date; and, to provide some background on how each book came to be published