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Policy West focuses on urban greenspace, water rights, ocean fisheries
and the trade-environment junction. The consultancy's policy
assessment work is overseen by Director Paul Stanton Kibel. As
projects require, Policy West collaborates with experts in city
planning, land use design, natural resource economics, aquatic sciences
and foreign affairs.
Policy West assesses strategies to expand and improve open space resources for urban low-income minority residents with limited access to parkland. The consultancy's work includes policy assessments of equity-in-access at the East Bay Regional Park District, Marin County Department of Parks and Open Space and California State Department of Parks and Recreation, and reuse of former industrial lands along city waterways as open space.
Policy West assesses strategies to ensure that freshwater diversion is ecologically compatible with habitat and water quality needs. The consultancy's work includes policy assessments of urban river and riverfront restoration, California land use-water supply legislation, Mexico-United States allocation of crossborder rivers and aquifers, the property interest in water under the United States Constitution and North American Free Trade Agreement, and the status of irrigation subsidies under international trade rules.
Policy West assesses strategies to strengthen the international regime to rebuild depleted high seas fish stocks. The consultancy's work includes policy assessments of marine protection under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, linkage of dockage rights to fishery conservation measures under the Law of the Sea regime, and emerging coastal state fishery claims in the North Passage of the Arctic Ocean.
Policy West assesses strategies to reconcile international trade rules to the need for conservation of scarce natural resources such as water and fisheries. The consultancy's work includes policy assessments of freshwater resources under the investment and subsidy provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and World Trade Organization, citizens submissions under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation on fishery and water resources, and the relation of Law of the Sea fishery provisions to export-import rules.
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