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)
The School is endorsed by the
following
institutions:
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link to go to the
6th Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Timisoara, Romania, in
2008.
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5th Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Barcelona, Spain, in
2008.
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4th Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Khon Kaen, Thailand, in
2007.
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2nd Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Sangonera la Verde,
Murcia, Spain, in
2005.
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1st Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Deutschlandsberg,
Austria, in
2004.
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