Nature-Society Relationships in transition
Action Research methodologies to collectively deal with experience and utopia
VI ARALIG PhD-course, Portugal, 3-7 June 2012
This course focuses on the perspective of sustainability in nature society relations as a continuous process of transition. Transitions are long-term, co-evolutionary and multi-actor processes that require changes both on system and actor level. Action research underlines a connection between theory and practice, between understanding and change, and an active cooperation between researchers and participants, and contributes with methodological approaches that can work within a change perspective.
The course aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of people interested in action research, in the relation between practice and reflective learning and, broadly, in transition processes, in order to share, discuss, and reflect on their experiences with different methods and activities.
Credits: 5 ECTS
Deadlines:
The deadline for applications and abstracts is 15th March
The deadline for extended abstracts and synthesis presentation is 13th May
Submission and contacts:
Vanja Karadzic – karadzic.vanja@gmail.com;
You can also contact Maria Albertina Raposo – albertina@ipbeja.pt
Fee: 250 euros (only for accommodation, meals and fieldtrip)
Download the course application (doc file, 13 kb) and course announcement (doc file, 51 kb)
Exploring tradeoffs around farming livelihoods and the environment - using farming systems modelling (3 ECTS credits)
13-17 August 2012. Ultuna, Uppsala
This is a course on farming systems analysis and modelling, using the NUANCES framework as an example. NUANCES is an integrated crop-livestock modelling tool that has been developed in an African context. Analyses carried out include trade-offs in the short and long term e.g. for allocation of land, labour and organic resources for the individual farmer and for villages. It can be used as a cost effective support tool for future choices for land management taking into account preservation of natural resources and food security. The course introduces the framework and gives hands-on assignments that facilitate its exploration. The course is primarily intended for PhD students undertaking studies related to natural resource management. To take full advantage of the course, knowledge in agronomy or equivalent corresponding to an MSc is needed. The course will include a one week pre-assignment followed by a one week on-campus part with lectures and exercises given at Ultuna, Uppsala, 13-17 August, 2012.
The course consists of three parts
1) A literature based pre-assignment to bring all participants to a similar level. Introduction of simulation modelling and the need to analyse farming systems, concepts of farming systems and farm typologies.
2) Three days of lectures and exercises where farming systems analysis and modelling, and the NUANCES framework is presented and explored.
3) Two days with hands-on case studies where participants can use own data if available.
Teachers
The on-campus part of the course will be led by Dr. Mariana Rufino, International Livestock Institute (ILRI), and Prof. Pablo Tittonell, Wageningen University, both members of the team that developed the NUANCES framework. The pre -assignment will be handled by Dr. Sigrun Dahlin (Department of Soil and Environment, SLU).
Registration
Expression of interest before June 15th, 2012 to Sigrun Dahlin (Sigrun.Dahlin@slu.se). Confirmation of participation by June 30th. Maximum number of participants 25.
This is a course on farming systems analysis and modelling, using the NUANCES framework as an example. Analyses carried out include trade-offs in the short and long term e.g. for allocation of land, labour and organic resources for the individual farmer and for villages.
The course is primarily intended for PhD students undertaking studies related to natural resource management.
PhD course - Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
7,5 ECTS
Time: September 10 – October 12, 2012, 100%, daytime
What role do gender equality and democracy have in processes of environmental governance and the attainment of sustainable development?
This multidisciplinary course provides students, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of environment and development studies with gender sensitive tools and skills necessary to understand issues of gender and power in their area of work and to carry out successful research and program development in natural resource management, agriculture and development.
The course will 1) Introduce you to gender issues in and explore interconnections between gender, environmental governance and development in multiple contexts and spaces. 2) Provide you with methods and tools for power and gender analysis in an increasingly interconnected and world and 3) Allow you to focus on a project in course discussions that is directly related to your research and area of work.
Teachers: Seema Arora-Jonsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Course coordinator)
Cindi Katz, State University New York
Andrea Nightingale (prel.), Edinburgh University
(a detailed programme as well as the reading list will be put up shortly on http://www.slu.se/sv/fakulteter/nl-fakulteten/om- fakulteten/institutioner/sol/lbutv/)
To register for the course and for more information, contact: Seema Arora-Jonsson, Seema.Arora.Jonsson@slu.se. Tel. +46-018-67 11 92 or
Elinor Carlbrand, Elinor.Carlbrand@slu.se, Tel +46-018 671443
Department of Rural and Urban Development, SLU, Box 7005, 750 07 Uppsala
You can download the course flyer here (pdf, 50 kb)
Next: Joint course together with SIANI/SEI on Land Use, Land Use change
1-5 October 2012
The course will include a full day symposium focusing on “Poverty, Land Use and Land Use Change”with invited keynote speakers on 4th October 2012.
More information about the course will be published here very soon.
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