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Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA):A short summary of persons involved, maincontent and (personal) outcomescontent and (personal) outcomes02. – 26.08.2011, Munich
Katja Heubach
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Organisersg
Global Diversity FoundationDr. Gary J. Martin (Director)(Biocultural Diversity Learning Network)
Rachel Carson Center MünchenRachel Carson Center, MünchenProf. Dr. Christof Mauch (Director)
Munich International Summer University
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21 international participantsp p
Europe: 6North America: 2 Asia: 6
Africa: 3L ti A i &
Oceania: 1Latin America & The Caribbean: 3
Ocea a
Photo: Thor Morales
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25 languagesg g
Source : www globalenvironments orgSource : www.globalenvironments.org
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13 areas of expertisepSocial sciences: Social anthropologistp g Anthropologist Visual Anthropologist Semiotician Semiotician Environmental Anthropologist
Natural sciences:Natural sciences: Plant ecologist Environmental scientist C ti bi l i t Conservation biologist Botanist Biologist Industrial Engineer Geographer Biology and Society
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Approx. 156 mb of literature to workppthrough (or even more..)
No. of articles per subject / issue: Environmental history (U.S.): 15 Environmental migration: 15 Sustainability science: 7 Ecosystem services / protection: 7 Ecosystem services / protection: 7 Biocultural Diversity: 3 Political Ecology: 12 Ecofeminism: 1 Ecofeminism: 1 Neoliberalism: 7 Community‐based adaption: 1 Traditional ecological knowledge 1 Traditional ecological knowledge: 1 Sacred landscapes: 1 Environmental film critique: 1
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Approx. 133 hrs of work per week (with 5 pp p (hrs sleep per night)
Hours Monday 15 August Tuesday 16 August Wednesday 17 August Thursday 18 August Friday 19 AugustSaturday 20 August
Sunday 21 August
8 – 10 am Independent interaction, reading& writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Neuschwanstein, Wieskirche, Museum Glentleiten
Field Trip orfree
Istvan Praet:
Deutsches Museum: Meet at the entrance hall of the museum's library (Bibliothek), which is opposite to the main entrance, at 9.15
10 – 11 am
Gary Martin: Impacts of community conservation and payments for environmental services
Reinhold Leinfelder: A Social Contract for Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Raj Puri: Adapting to Climatic Variability, Lessons for Community-based Adaptation
Istvan Praet: Comparing indigenous and scientific conceptions of disaster
11 – 11:30 am Ethnobotany break
Eth b t b k
Ethnobotany break Ethnobotany break
I d d tEthnobotany break11:30 am – 12 noon
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Independent interaction, reading & writing
12:00 noon – 1 pm
Susannah McCandless: Migrants/agricultural landscapes and forest landowners
Simon Werrett: Making Science Sustainable
Alexa Weik: Imagining Ecological Futures: Ecotopian Visions in Contemporary Cinema
Clapperton Mavhunga: Firearms as Prophylactics against Vermin: African Hunters in the Engineering
Ursula Münster: The Political Ecology of Conservation
Hunters in the Engineering of a Tsetse-Free Environment in Colonial Zimbabwe
1 – 2 pm Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
2 – 4 pm Gary Martin: Freelisting (Optional) Gary Martin: Preference ranking (Optional)
Raj Puri: Weighted Ranking (Optional)
Raj Puri: Common Property Resource Game
Green City presentation and bike ride4 – 5 pm Journal Club (self-organized) Research Café (self-
organized)
Raj Puri: Contemporary Ethnography in Environmental Anthropology: The Will to Improve
Raj Puri: Cultural Domain Analysis
5 – 6 pm Policy Matters (self-organized) Policy Matters (self-organized) Policy Matters (self-organized) Interim evaluation
6 – 7:00 pm Dinner break Dinner break Dinner break Dinner break Dinner break
7:00 - 9:30 pm Free for independent Video screening
Free for independent Video screening
Alexa Weik: Film screening (An Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow or Avatar)
Alexa Weik: Film screening (An Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow or Avatar)
Free Free
Great diversity in teaching modules (extract)Academic staff‐led Participant‐led University‐led
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Field TripLecture with discussion
Personal profile of an
Independent interaction, reading & writing
Ethnobotany breakenvironmental leader
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Ethnobotany break
Journal Club
Rachel Carson Center hour Policy Matters
Research Methods Practical In the News
Creative InteractionData analysis
Cultural Excursion
Data analysis
Video screening
Research CaféConference
Some elaboration about selected modules
Lecture with discussion Research CaféLecture with discussion Research Café
Conference„Environmental Change and Migration
in Historical Perspective“Ethnobotany break
in Historical Perspective
Research Methods Practical Creative Interaction
Policy Matters Video screening
Lecture with discussionNigel Crawhall, IUCNSociolinguistics, University of Cape Town; Skype interview dealing with the trade‐offs of conservation: Protected Areas, land claims, and (inter‐)national economic interest
A th Oli S ith
Illustrated lectures on contemporary issues in environment and society will be delivered by course leaders, followed by a question and answer period and general discussion.Anthony Oliver‐Smith
Anthropologist: disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan
Istvan Praet , Carson FellowA h l i h hi fi ld k A i di h i i l
and general discussion.
Anthropologist: ethnographic fieldwork among Amerindian shamanism, ritual
Reinhold LeinfelderHistorical geology, Anthropocene; WBGU‐Gutachten: “Die große Transformation – ein Gesellschaftsvertrag”
Octaviana Trujillo, University of Flagstaff, U.S.Indigenous language, community, in Northern Arizona
Rajindra Puri, University of Kent, UKEcological anthropologist, rainforest valley in IBorneo for last 15 years
Eleanor Hayman, Carson Academic AssistantEnvironmental ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, ecological feminism Photos: Rachel Carson Center
ConferenceConference on „Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective“, August, 5-6, 2011, RCC Munich
ANTHONY OLIVER SMITH:
Selected contributions
ANTHONY OLIVER‐SMITH:
ENVIRONMENTAL MIGRANTS? SOCIETY, NATURE AND POPULATION DISPLACEMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE
ANNELIES ZOOMERS:
CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, AND “NEW MOBILITIES” IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDESCHANGE
• environmental migration is not “naturally driven”, but the outcome of human impacts on natural systems
Clii t Ch (CC) i di th t d
ANDES
• questioning migration as a failure to be able to cope with environmental changes
• Cliimate Change (CC) is expanding threats and hazards: CC-induced displacement and resettlement
Conclusion: adaption or structural change?
• Zoomers posits two types of migration• source of income / livelihood: going outwards – remittances• outmigration = second residence (richer people) in order to live modern and
Political imperative to bring about socio-economic reforms to address deep-rooted poverty:
people) in order to live modern and provide children with good education
migration is not in first place a coping strategy in order to flee environmental changes but in
l t i li lih d !“CC mitigation and adaption strategies are just wishful thinking unless global inequalities / imbalances are addressed in the process.” (Marcus Oxley)
general to improve livelihoods!
Migration is part of a cultural toolkit to improve / secure livelihoods (Oliver-Smith)
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Research Methods Practical
These interactive sessions will give hands-on practice with methods such as free-listing, structured interviewing, botanical collections, specimen identification tasks, and valuation throughspecimen identification tasks, and valuation through rating & ranking.
Photos: Thais Martin, Thor Morales
Cultural Domain Analysis • Freelisting, Preference Ranking• Analysesoftware: AnthropacAnalysesoftware: Anthropac
Participatory Research • Participatory Resource Mapping
Socio economics Socio‐economics• common property resource game
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Policy Matters
Participants will present PowerPoints on ‘policy matters’ – the institutions, initiatives and instruments that guide ethical ways of interacting with local communities.with local communities.
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Sustainable use ofagrobiodiversity in India
Research Caféagrobiodiversity in India, Isabelle Kunze In the last week of the summer academy, we will
have self-organized sessions during which GESA participants and RCC associates are welcome to present their current research during a 20-minutepresent their current research during a 20 minute session (including Q&A).
Photos: Isabelle Kunze
Photo: Nickson Otieno Photos: Tamer Khafaga
Conservation of key bird habitats in Kenya, Nickson Otieno
Bedouin culture and management of arid zones in Egypt, Tamer Khafaga
Ethnobotany break Creative Interaction
On two evenings each week, we will leave unstructured time for participants to present creative representations of environmental issues through art, music, performance, poetry and other
Instead of coffee breaks, we will ask participants to prepare something to share that is chosen from their culinary traditions or ‘foodways’ and to give a short presentation on what it is and how it is through art, music, performance, poetry and other
forms of expression.short presentation on what it is and how it is prepared.
Photos: Thais Martin
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Video screening
In addition to short videos used to illustrate other presentations, we will screen longer environmental videos on two evenings each week, followed by a discussion period.discussion period.
Photo: Thor Morales
Take home My personal two “key papers” of the Global E i t S A d 2011
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Environments Summer Academy 2011:
Pretty, J. et al. (2009): The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration. Conservation and Society 7(2): 100‐112.
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Norgaard, Richard B. (2004): Learning and knowing collectively. EcologicalEconomics 49: 231‐241.
Photos: Katja Heubach
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Photo: Thais Martin
Photo: Katja Heubach
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Join the experience!