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Lara B. Fowler - Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA, UNITED STATES

Lara B. Fowler

SENIOR LECTURER, Penn State Law and the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment | Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA, UNITED STATES

An attorney and mediator who focuses on environmental, energy, and natural resource law, with a specific focus on water related issues

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Biography

Professor Lara Fowler is an attorney and mediator who focuses on environmental, energy, and natural resource law, with a specific focus on water related issues. She has a joint appointment between Penn State Law and the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment where she is working on questions related to water, the Chesapeake Bay, and energy. Prior to joining Penn State, she was an attorney at Gordon Thomas Honeywell LLP in Seattle, Washington, where she focused on mediation and dispute resolution of complex natural resource issues, as well as representing clients facing regulatory hurdles in the environmental and energy fields. She has worked on issues such as who is entitled to store groundwater in the greater Los Angeles area, flooding issues in the Chehalis Basin, Washington State’s second largest river basin, and energy issues in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing a legal career, she was a senior water resources coordinator with the Oregon Water Resources Department.

Education (2)

University of Washington: J.D.

Dartmouth College: A.B.

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Articles (4)

Abuse of power and institutional violence in the ADF: A culture transformed?


Australian Defence Force Journal

Goyne, Anne; Coates, William; Forsyth, Guy; Fowler, Lara; Gibbons, Phillip; Woods, Kevin; Cullens, Jamie

2017 It is vaguely ironic that the two social institutions with the highest reliance on authority are prisons and the military. Both use a uniquely punitive form of authority to enforce conformity to desired norms of behaviour but for starkly different reasons. In a prison, the need for strict discipline reflects a fear that prisoners are dangerous and need to be closely controlled at all times. The fact they are being 'punished' also forms part of the rationale for how they are treated.

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Flood Mitigation for Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities: Community-Scale Impact of Federal Policies


The Center for Rural Pensylvania

Dr. Lara B. Fowler, Dr. Ryan Baxter, Dr. Scott J. Colby, Dr. Maurie Kelly, Kayla Kelly-Slatten, and Dr. Katherine Y. Zipp, Dr. L. Donald Duke, Michele Weitzel

2017 Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are critically impacting Pennsylvania because of its history of flooding, its pattern of development along rivers and streams, the age of its structures, and its system of local government. [...] This research explores the impacts of these changes on Pennsylvania’s rural communities in the following four ways: reviews the legal and policy framework at a federal, state, local and individual level; examines the demographic and geospatial information associated with flood-impacted communities in Pennsylvania; examines the economic impacts to the housing market in floodplains; and explores how flooding, flood insurance, and other federal and Commonwealth programs have impacted Pennsylvania’s rural communities by focusing closely on eight communities as case studies. The research offers a number of recommendations...

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Biofuels Policy


Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA)

Smith, Paul; Fowler, Lara; Dahmann, Kristina

2016 This report reviews how both federal and state governments have affected the biofuels industry in the United States and explores the demand for advanced biofuels from the US military and for commercial aviation.

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Human conflicts and the food, energy, and water nexus: building collaboration using facilitation and mediation to manage environmental disputes


Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Lara B. Fowler, Xiaoxin Shi

2016 The food, energy, and water nexus represents the interaction of three complicated systems, each of which alone provides plenty of fodder for human conflict. In the USA, environmental laws typically address conflicts arising within each system. For example, the Clean Water Act primarily focuses on controlling end-of-pipe water pollution. However, it is less effective in reducing water pollution from nonpoint sources, which requires intensive collaboration of both public and private entities to address. Sector-based regulatory regimes also have similar limitations in the food and energy systems. Once these three systems are considered together, the implications of policies, plans, and projects on natural resources become difficult to untangle. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of managing environmental disputes through facilitation and mediation, where a neutral third party is engaged to help design and manage a constructive problem-solving process.

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