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Session Information:
This session may be of particular interest to:  Practicing and Applied Anthropologists     Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges   
Program Number: 3-144A
Type: Session
Session Title: MAKING COGNITIVE APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY COUNT: BRIDGING FINDINGS TO POLICY
Session Sponsor: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Session Date/Time: Sat., 1:45 PM-5:30 PM
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Organizer(s): SUSAN CRATE (George Mason University), SHIRLEY FISKE (Adjunct Prof/Consultant), MICHAEL PAOLISSO (University of Maryland) 
Chair(s): SUSAN CRATE (George Mason University), SHIRLEY FISKE (Adjunct Prof/Consultant) 
Participants:  
1:45 PM: NORBERT ROSS (Vanderbilt University) -- Cultural models, Distributed Cognition and Behavior: Relevance for Policy Makers  
2:00 PM: MICHAEL PAOLISSO (University of Maryland) -- Cultural Models and Cultural Consensus: Integrating Cognitive Approaches to Study and Guide Restoration of Chesapeake Bay Oysters  
2:15 PM: CARLOS GARCIA-QUIJANO (University of Rhode Island) -- Using cognitive methods to bridge Local and (Western) Scientific Ecological Knowledge in the management of multispecies Caribbean fisheries  
2:30 PM: JEFFREY JOHNSON (East Carolina University), DAVID GRIFFITH (East Carolina U) -- Simultaneous Application of Traditional and Scientific Ecological Knowledge in the Arctic  
2:45 PM: CHRISTINE FEURT (Wells Estuarine Reserve) -- Protecting Our Children's Water - Using Cultural Models and Collaborative Learning to Frame and Implement Ecosystem Management  
3:00 PM: PETER RUDIAK-GOULD (University of Oxford) -- Radiation and rising seas: Cognitive approaches to environmental action and inaction  
3:15 PM: SCOTT GOODWIN (University of Maryland) -- Rising Waters: Environmental Justice, Adaptation, and Mitigation Responses to Sea Level Rise in Rural Maryland and Urban Massachusetts  
3:30 PM: BREAK  
3:45 PM: BENJAMIN BLOUNT (SocioEcological Informatics) -- An Assessment of the Usefulness of Cultural Models for Environmental Studies  
4:00 PM: RICK STEPP (University of Florida) -- Plants, Language and Cognition: Bridging Findings to Policy  
4:15 PM: SUSAN CRATE (George Mason University) -- Considering and Attributing Culture for Effective Regional Climate Policy in Northeastern Siberia  
4:30 PM: ELIZABETH OLSON (University of California, Merced) -- Cultural Consensus as a Tool for Integrated Conservation and Development Programs on a Protected Area in west central Mexico  
4:45 PM: ALLISON HOPKINS (University of Florida) -- Combining Cultural Consensus Model and Social Network Analysis to Inform Environmental Policy  
5:00 PM: DOUGLAS HUME (Northern Kentucky University) -- Cultural Models of Farming, Rice and Nature: Guiding Policy using Cognitive Anthropology in Eastern Madagascar and Northern Kentucky  
5:15 PM: DISCUSSANT: WILLETT KEMPTON (Center for Carbon-Free Power)  
5:30 PM: End of Session
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