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Institute of Science and Public Affairs |
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Institute of Science and Public Affairs |
The Institute of Science and Public Affairs (ISPA) of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, matches university resources and expertise to public and private sector problems. The staff within ISPA includes experts in many areas of specialists including in the fields of biology, chemistry, geography, land use planning, public administration, physics, economics, and law. These centers carry out the public service responsibility of the university through programs in education, training and applied research.
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NEW NAME
In February of 2001, we changed our name from the Environmental Management Unit of the Florida Center for Public Management to the Program for Environmental Policy and Planning Systems (PEPPS) at the Institute of Science and Public Affairs. This change was made to better reflect the type of service that we provide to clients.
MISSION
The Program for Environmental Policy and Planning Systems provides consultation, training, and technical assistance to public sector agencies at the international, national, regional, state, and local level. Primary services include strategic planning, issue analysis, development of indicator systems, comparative risk assessment, and the use of these tools in policy and decision-making.Chemical and Pesticides Results Measures (CAPRM)
In this project, the staff of the Program for Environmental Policy and Planning Systems (PEPPS) is continuing the work of a cooperative agreement with the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intended to generate a set of environmental indicators measuring key dimensions of environmental issues concerning chemicals and pesticides.
Waste Indicator System for the Environment (WISE)
PEPPS has entered into a cooperative agreement with the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) to develop, in cooperation with a group of external stakeholders, an environmental indicator system that can be used by states, tribes and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the EPA to describe and understand environmental trends and conditions associated with waste issues.
TRibal Environmental Indicator System (TREIS)
The Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) (both of USEPA) have separately engaged the Institute of Science and Public Affairs of The Florida State University in cooperative agreements to assist stakeholders in developing indicator systems. These two projects, Chemical and Pesticide Results Measures (CAPRM) for OPPTS and Waste Indicator System for the Environment (WISE) for OSWER both begin with strong direction to include tribal indicators as a component of the broader indicator development process. ISPA is now beginning the tribal portion of both of these projects and is proceeding by jointly looking at indicators for both projects. ISPA is presently in an exploratory mode, searching for known tribal indicator systems and for data sets capable of supporting tribally relevant environmental indicators for chemical, pesticide, and waste issues. The ultimate purpose of these projects is to provide tribes with some examples of how they can develop a set of indicators for their own use from existing standard, national databases. There may be as well some indicators provided purely as examples of indicators that were assembled by specific tribes for their own use.
