GESA 2011 Alumni Blog

The Global Environments Summer Academy 2011 celebrates the beginning of its fourth week by launching the GESA 2011 Alumni Blog. The blog will allow the participants, who come from 17 countries and a diversity of academic disciplines, to continue to interact as they return to their field sites, places of work and universities.

Taking notes at GESA 2011 (Photo: Thor Morales)

Nurturing future environmental leaders

The Global Environments Summer Academy 2011 (GESA 2011) will focus on human dimensions of global environmental change, ranging from community management practices and institutions to planetary processes. It will span local to global scales in exploring the most critical contemporary environmental issues from the perspective of biocultural diversity studies, environmental history and sustainability science. Students… [Continue Reading]

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Walking lectures

Leaving the conventional classroom behind, we explore environment and society on walking lectures with GESA faculty members. Frank Uekötter leads a session on the environmental history of Munich that focuses on the renaturalization of the Isar River and various aspects of urbanization. Helmuth Trischler provides a lecture at the Deutsches Museum accompanied by a visit… [Continue Reading]

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Independent interaction

Participants use the early morning hours to read, work on assignments, or discuss readings and lectures with other students.

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Creative Interaction

Participants are given unstructured time to present creative representations of environmental issues through art, music, performance, poetry and other forms of expression.

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Research methods

These interactive sessions will give hands-on practice with methods such as free-listing, structured interviewing, botanical collections, specimen identification tasks, participatory mapping and valuation through rating & ranking.  

Photo by Inanc Tekguc 2011

Profiles of environmental leaders

The life and work of men and women who have made significant contributions to environmental movements, practice and science will be profiled in short illustrated presentations.

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