3rd Liphe4 Summer
School 2006
3rd Summer School on Developing
Toolkits on Integrated and Participatory Analyses of Sustainability
July 16th-22nd, 2006, CEMACAM Torre Guil,
Sangonera la Verde, Murcia, Spain
With the special
support from CEMACAM Torre Guil
Scope of the summer school
The purpose of the summer school was providing a reference point on the state
of the art in the field of sustainable development studies to young researchers
and advanced students. In particular, the school presented a complete
overview, both theoretical and applied, of recent analytical and participatory
approaches for promoting sustainable development. The main objective of the
school was providing an understanding of the fundamental character of the
interaction of social and natural systems and of interventions aiming for
enhancing sustainability. Resources drew from the fields of Integrated
Assessment, Social Multicriteria Evaluation, Integrated Analysis of Social
Metabolism, Participatory Approaches, as well as Spatial and Biophysical
Analysis.
Participants
The summer school was attended by 20 PhD and Master students, as well as young
professionals, interested in problems related to sustainable development and
natural resource management. Participants came from different countries such as Austria, Germany, Peru, the USA, Italy, Puerto Rico, Russia, Grrece, Serbia, Portugal, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.
Organization of summer school
The summer school was scheduled from 16th to 22nd July 2006. The program was
organized along five days of morning presentations and related interactive
afternoon sessions, plus introduction and conclusion.
The summer school took place at CEMACAM Torre Guil, an Environmental
Education Centre of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, in Sangonera la Verde,
close to the city of Murcia, Spain. For a look at the Torre Guil facility go to
http://obrasocial.cam.es/medio/torreguil/guil.htm and then click on
Multimedia and Galeria de Imagenes.
Themes for the 2006 summer school on
integrated and participative analyses of scenarios in relation to
sustainable development.
(i) Integrated Assessment for sustainability - epistemological and conceptual
issues
(ii) Resource use patterns in both industrialized and developing countries
(iii) Tool and methods for organizing scientific information for decision
making
(iv) Resources, time, and land - operationalizing the analysis of biophysical
constraints
(v) Geographical Information Systems applied to the Integrated Analysis of
Sustainability
(vi) Participatory approaches and Multicriteria Evaluation Methods
In the facilitated working groups the participants applied the theoretical
inputs to case studies. The case studies were referring to the sustainability
of regional development in the South of Spain where competing socio-economic
activities of agriculture, tourism and the building sector leading to severe
problems in water availability, landscape and soil degradation and social
disintegration. The working groups will seek to identify useful narratives based
on multi-scale integrated analysis to be used in a debate about sustainable
pathways of development for the region. The same was applied to case studies in Germany and Czech Republic.
List of resource persons
(i) Mario Giampietro (Complex Systems)
(ii) Jesus Ramos Martin (Ecological Economics)
(iii) Heinz Schandl (Social Ecology)
(iv) Clemens M. Grünbühel (Ecological Anthropology, Rural Development)
(v) Richard Aspinall (GIS, geography)
(vi) Begüm Özkaynak (Participatory Approaches)
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