Project Management and Contribution to Policy

This ENTITLE Specialized Intensive will be held in Barcelona between 20-23 January, 2015. ENT Environment and Management, which is a small-sized environmental justice consultancy working closely with local and national administration and NGOs, is organizing the course with the collaboration of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The course covers project management and contribution to policy changes, with the participation of several outstanding lecturers and with open debates and panel sessions. The themes discussed include how research and especially research on political ecology may influence policy change through various organizations such as universities, social movements, NGOs, foundations or environmental consultancies and how to develop the skills necessary for developing and managing successful research projects.

Public conference Coffee, Frogs and Workers: From Political Ecology to policy for tropical biodiversity, by Prof. Paul Robbins, 22 of January.

Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will give a public speech on conservation biology from a political ecology perspective, next Thursday, 22 January at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus Bellaterra. The event will also be broadcast live on UAB online channel (11.30 am, GMT + 1:00).

Prof. Robbins is currently investigating biodiversity, plantation export economics, and labor migration in the booming commodity production landscapes of coffee, rubber, and arecanut in southern India. “As era of wildlife "enclosures" draws to a close and the frontiers of conservation begin to extend into wholly humanized landscapes, basic questions arise about the survival of people and other species. This research concludes that wild species are thriving in places that are not wilderness at all, but their fates depend on policy directed at the condition and aspirations of the rural working poor”, says Robbins.

Panel on how research enters into social movements - the case of Guanyem, and labour movements – climate change

This open event on how social and environmental research enters into social movements focusing on the case of “Guanyem Barcelona” and on labour movements and its relation with climate change will take place on Thursday 22 January, between 18:00-19.30 pm (GMT + 1:00) at the ICTA-IPC building, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Two members of the local citizens’ platform, and Stefania Barca, senior researcher from the Centro de Estudos Sociais will lead the discussion. The session will be held in English.

Watch the videos from the course below