In this project local stakeholders and authorities discuss and work together on issues that concern the area, of which environmental issues form an important part.
They have an obvious incentive to work together on shared continental security concerns.
None of these concerns or those raised in the NPCA's report come as a surprise to NPS. "We appreciate the association's work," says David Barna, chief spokesperson for the NPS in Washington, D.C., who notes that NPCA and NPS work together on park issues and concerns.
Rather, we are interested in creating an environment that challenges each of us to become educated in our own traditions, as well as those of others, to promote mutual respect, and to work together on common issues and concerns.
Disaster risk reduction is not a controversial topic but a concern which crosses political, religious, social and economic divides encouraging people to work together on areas of common concern, sharing resources and best practice.
Responding to the outrage stirred by his remarks about black Americans last weekend, President Vicente Fox invited the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson to meet him on Wednesday to discuss ways Mexicans and African-Americans can work together on issues of mutual concern.
To return to Canada's experience, it is instructive to recall that the country had a National Forum of Science and Technology Advisory Councils that met regularly to compare good practices and to work together on issues of common concern.
"We will continue to work together on issues of mutual concern, including things like the six-party talks and the Korean forces that are going to Iraq," said the department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, referring to talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
She said the current arrangement, in which more than 1,000 of the locals from the breakaway unions remain active in state and local labor federations, would not allow the two national federations to maximize their ability to work together on issues of common concern.
But aides said they would set aside their differences to work together on issues of critical concern.
We must work together on this one.
