Browsing by Author "Mejicano, Elizabeth"

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    Long-Term Sustainability of Natural Resources in Brooklyn Park
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Lanoux, Chad; Kutschke, Liz; Mejicano, Elizabeth; Kenote, Thomas; Werbeach, Shannon; Gurke, Kate
    This project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Brooklyn Park does not currently have a comprehensive natural resource management plan. The goal of the project was to develop a management plan based on best practices for natural resource management. Brooklyn Park project lead Jody Yungers worked with the students in Dr. Mae Davenport’s ESPM 5245: Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy course to produce recommendations for managing Brooklyn Park's natural and cultural resources, with a focus on planning for protected areas and promoting equitable access to parks and trails. The final report and presentation are available.
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    Workforce Diversity in Federal Natural Resource Organizations
    (University of Minnesota, 2022-02) Mejicano, Elizabeth; Dockry, Michael J.; Kilgore, Michael A.
    Natural resource management in the United States has long suffered from a lack of workforce diversity, with women and minorities generally underrepresented in natural resource careers. Workforce diversity is particularly important for federal natural resource organizations given their importance as major environmental employers and policymakers as well as their legal obligation to ensure a representative federal workforce. This analysis examined workforce trends in gender (from 1998 to 2018) and race/ethnicity (from 2006 to 2018) for nine federal natural resource departments and agencies. Employee demographic data were examined intraorganizationally over time and inter-organizationally in comparison with the federal government overall and the civilian labor force. The results demonstrated that over the last two decades: (1) federal natural resource organizations experienced large losses of employees, in contrast to gains in the number of employees in the federal government overall and the civilian labor force; (2) the percentage of female and minority employees in federal natural resource organizations increased even as the number of employees decreased; (3) federal natural resource organizations had lower percentages of female and minority employees than the federal government overall and civilian labor force; and (4) gaps in female and minority employment between the federal natural resource organizations and the civilian labor force generally remained stable or grew larger over time. Overall, the results indicate that federal natural resource organizations have continued to experience remedial levels of workforce diversity compared to the federal government overall and the civilian labor force.