Mervyn Tano
Mervyn Tano is the director of the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management. He was a member of several national advisory boards including the Environmental Protection Agency Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee, the National Environmental Justice Committee, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Community Leaders Network and Transportation External Coordination Working Group. Tano was also on the technical advisory committee of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation and was a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee to Review Risk Management in the DOE’s Environmental Remediation Program in 1994 and the NRC Committee to Evaluate the Science, Engineering, and Health Basis of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Program in 1995. He is currently on the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Commission on Protected Areas and the AREVA Community Advisory Council.
For the past 35 years, Tano has worked on a wide range of indigenous peoples' environmental, natural, and cultural resources management, political, and legal issues. His work includes the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic research on native peoples; federal facilities environmental restoration; radioactive waste management, intellectual property rights, energy resource development, and climate change.
Related Resources from Mervyn Tano
Developing Agile Tribal Leaders and Agile Tribal Institutions to Adaptively
Manage and Mitigate the Impacts of Global Climate Change in Indian Country
Mervyn Tano, December 2006
Related Resources by Mervyn Tano from the Natural Hazards Library
Protection of the Reservation Environment: Hazardous Waste Management on Indian Lands
With Richar DuBey and Grant Parker, Environmental Law, Voume 18, 1987