Fire and Water

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
State Department ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation ◽  
American Cities

This chapter begins with the author's experience when she presented her proposal of the floating pool to the Waterfront Committee on July 29, 2004. It recounts her meeting with the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in 1998 and how she convinced regulators that a floating pool was a water-dependent use. It also details how the author presented the concept of a floating pool to a panel at a Waterfront Center Conference in 2001 and discussed methods to open up urban riverfronts for recreation. The chapter mentions the influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, which argued that municipal governments were no longer able to govern effectively. It talks about Jacobs' recommendation of more inclusiveness in the political and administrative processes by creating a subdivision within every public agency whose portfolio affected a locality.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
State Department ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Superstorm Sandy ◽  
Minimal Damage ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation

This chapter recounts how the State Department of Environmental Conservation allowed the Parks Department to open the Floating Pool Lady at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx on June 27, 2018. It points out the appreciation that the author has received since the floating pool started its voyage, emphasizing how people enjoying and having fun provided proof that creating the swimming facility yielded many accomplishments. It also discusses how the Floating Pool Lady weathered two hurricanes and a formidable rainstorm, such as superstorm Sandy in 2012, which only caused minimal damage. The chapter mentions how children in the Bronx from a recreationally underserved neighborhood no longer have to swim in putrid waters now that the floating pool has become accessible. It notes how the Floating Pool Lady had a seasonal record of nearly fifty thousand swimmers in 2019, despite over twelve inches of rainfall in July and August.

DEVELOPING THE STATE ON-SCENE COORDINATORS' COURSE FOR ALASKA

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 1019-1021
Author(s):  
Harry Young ◽  
Larry Dietrick ◽  
Arthur Pilot ◽  
Geoff Harben ◽  
Mark Burger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Response Training ◽  
Unified Command ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation ◽  
Synergistic Relationship

ABSTRACT Before the development of the state on-scene coordinators’ course, spill response training available to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation focused on technical aspects, safety, and the incident command system. To function in a unified command and carry out legislatively mandated tasks, a program was needed to instruct responders in the department's duties. As the course evolved, a synergistic relationship developed, which is redefining the response program.

Reformism and Public Policies in American Cities

1967 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Lineberry ◽  
Edmund P. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
System Variables ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Cities

A decade ago, political scientists were deploring the “lost world of municipal government” and calling for systematic studies of municipal life which emphasized the political, rather than the administrative, side of urban political life. In recent years, this demand has been generously answered and urban politics is becoming one of the most richly plowed fields of political research. In terms originally introduced by David Easton, political scientists have long been concerned with inputs, but more recently they have focused their attention on other system variables, particularly the political culture and policy outputs of municipal governments.The present paper will treat two policy outputs, taxation and expenditure levels of cities, as dependent variables. We will relate these policy choices to socio-economic characteristics of cities and to structural characteristics of their governments. Our central research concern is to examine the impact of political structures, reformed and unreformed, on policy-making in American cities.

Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador’s Southern Andes

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 154-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa A. Velásquez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Mineral Extraction ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
Political Realm

In 2009, farmers in the highlands of Ecuador challenged a proposed water law by staging public rituals to venerate their watershed, called Kimsacocha, as the embodiment of the Pachamama (Mother Earth). They rejected the proposed law because it allowed for mineral extraction in communal watersheds. They argued that human and nonhuman entities are interconnected and that the state should designate communal watersheds as no-mining zones to defend the right to life. While some scholars have argued that indigenous ontologies decolonize the political realm, in fact they have uneven outcomes when mobilized in contentious mining politics. Indigenous ontologies enabled farmers to build a multiethnic movement in defense of life, but this did not lead to the implementation of their demands. Instead, the state appropriated the language of the Pachamama to produce a revised water law that promoted piecemeal environmental conservation. En 2009, agricultores de la zona montañosa de Ecuador rebatieron una propuesta de ley de aguas mediante la organización de rituales públicos dirigidos a la veneración de la cuenca conocida como Kimsacocha, la encarnación de la Pachamama (la Madre Tierra). Rechazaron la propuesta de ley dado que permitía la extracción de minerales en cuencas hidrográficas comunitarias. Argumentaron que los seres humanos se encuentran interconectados con aquellos no humanos y que el Estado debe designar las cuencas comunes como zonas libres de extracción, defendiendo así el derecho a la vida. Mientras que algunos estudiosos han argumentado que las ontologías indígenas descolonizan el espacio político, en realidad éstas tienen resultados irregulares cuando se las emplea en políticas mineras controvertidas. Las ontologías indígenas permitieron que los agricultores construyeran un movimiento multiétnico en defensa de la vida, pero esto no llevó a la implementación de sus exigencias. En lugar de eso, el Estado se apropió del lenguaje de la Pachamama para producir una ley de aguas revisada que promovía la conservación fragmentada del medio ambiente.

Shoreline Surveys at the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: The State of Alaska Response

1991 ◽  
Vol 1991 (1) ◽  
pp. 519-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Gundlach ◽  
Eugene A. Pavia ◽  
Clay Robinson ◽  
James C. Gibeaut
Keyword(s):  
Surface Coverage ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Exxon Valdez ◽  
Database Queries ◽  
Linear Extent ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation ◽  
Oil Penetration ◽  
Oil Thickness

ABSTRACT The state of Alaska needs information on the shoreline impacts of the Exxon Valdez incident to determine the linear extent of affected shoreline and the degree of oil penetration into the beach versus surface coverage, to assist the shoreline treatment effort, and to monitor oil persistence. Three principal methods were used to obtain data. Low-altitude helicopter surveys were made repeatedly during the first months of the incident to define shoreline impacts as heavy, moderate, light, and “no observed oiling.” A total of 140 ground stations in Prince William Sound, and over 60 stations in the Kenai and Kodiak areas, were set up to make specific measurements of surface coverage, oil penetration, and oil thickness along a topographic profile. An extensive (more than 1,400 km) walking survey was mounted after the 1989 treatment season to determine the extent of oil remaining and to guide the 1990 cleanup effort. More than 160 km of shoreline remained moderately to heavily oiled in the three regions at the end of 1989. Collected data were entered into the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation geographic information system to enable map production, database queries, and report creation. On an as-needed basis, data derived from these surveys were presented to the state on-scene coordinator, other state and federal agencies, and the cleanup operation.

Initial State of Alaska Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

1991 ◽  
Vol 1991 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-323
Author(s):  
Randolph Bayliss ◽  
John H. Janssen ◽  
Albert Kegler ◽  
Marshal Kendziorek ◽  
Daniel Lawn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The State ◽  
Exxon Valdez ◽  
Air National Guard ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill ◽  
Salmon Fry ◽  
Department Of Environmental Conservation

ABSTRACT The first weeks of the Exxon Valdez oil spill were critical to the defense of state resources. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) implemented the state spill response plan upon notification in the early hours of March 24, 1989. A local ADEC representative boarded the vessel within three and one-half hours of grounding. Experienced ADEC spill response staff, other state agencies, and two cleanup contract firms were notified that morning and were arriving through the first day. The Governor of Alaska and the Commissioner of ADEC surveyed the wreck that same day. Within 33 hours, ADEC had 30 persons on site. The state notification procedure and plan functioned effectively. Key roles undertaken initially by the state were aerial and computer spill tracking; liaison with fishing groups and local villages; and protection of sensitive habitats, especially salmon hatcheries. Notably, ADEC worked with the Cordova District Fishermen United (CDFU) to defend a critical salmon hatchery directly in the path of the spreading oil. Using the Alaska Air National Guard, two Alaska state ferries, and fishing boats, CDFU volunteers, local Chenega villagers, ADEC staff, and contractors used miles of boom to defend the hatchery. The hatchery was spared from oiling just as millions of salmon fry were released.

Politični položaj na Slovenskem leta 1919

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2020) (2) ◽  
pp. 359-394
Author(s):  
Jurij Perovšek
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
New Era ◽  
Party Organisation ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
First Time ◽  
Similar Development

For Slovenes in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the year 1919 represented the final step to a new political beginning. With the end of the united all-Slovene liberal party organisation and the formation of separate liberal parties, the political party life faced a new era. Similar development was showing also in the Marxist camp. The Catholic camp was united. For the first time, Slovenes from all political camps took part in the state government politics and parliament work. They faced the diminishing of the independence, which was gained in the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and the mutual fight for its preservation or abolition. This was the beginning of national-political separations in the later Yugoslav state. The year 1919 was characterized also by the establishment of the Slovene university and early occurrences of social discontent. A declaration about the new historical phenomenon – Bolshevism, had to be made. While the region of Prekmurje was integrated to the new state, the questions of the Western border and the situation with Carinthia were not resolved. For the Slovene history, the year 1919 presents a multi-transitional year.

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