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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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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


21 international participantsp p

Europe: 6North America: 2 Asia: 6

Africa: 3L ti A i &

Oceania: 1Latin America & The Caribbean: 3

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Photo: Thor Morales


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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


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


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




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

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Ethnobotany break Ethnobotany break

I d d tEthnobotany break11:30 am – 12 noon




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


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

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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)


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


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.


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


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.


Norgaard, Richard B. (2004): Learning and knowing collectively. EcologicalEconomics 49: 231‐241.

Photos: Katja Heubach


Photo: Thais Martin

Photo: Katja Heubach


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