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African Environment Programme ESRC/NERC Transdisciplinary Seminars and Workshops
Africa faces huge environmental challenges, with ecological, social and economic causes and consequences for management and resilience. Understanding change at different scales, in the context of sustainable and equitable development, will continue to promote the role of research in shaping social and environmental policy, and is critical and timely.
The African Environments Programme (AEP) will host two years of interdisciplinary events, including workshops, seminars and special lectures, which will focus on critical elements of African Environments. Cross-cutting themes on poverty, policy and development, conservation, climate change, livelihoods, history and economics will be addressed in focused meetings. Forthcoming examples include biodiversity and governance, natural resource access and rural livelihood development in post-conflict societies, water management, social and ecological resilience, transformations in dryland environments, including agriculture and pastoralism.
The objective is to strengthen communications between researchers at Oxford and beyond, creating a forum to exchange ideas between academics, students, policy makers and practitioners, including those from Africa. Drawing lessons from case studies on science, policy and management, it is hoped that priorities on major agenda issues can be identified, synergies in research developed, and participants encouraged to think beyond conventional discipline boundaries. Key events will generate think-pieces and collections of papers for journals and a book.
Forthcoming ESRC/NERC Transdisciplinary Seminars and Workshops
- Post-war reconstruction in Central Africa: Beyond the 'liberal peace'
September 2007 [Postponed]
Previous ESRC/NERC Transdisciplinary Seminars and Workshops
- Resilience, realities and research in African environments
18 June 2007, Jesus College, University of Oxford - Climate change and development in Africa: Policy frameworks and development interventions for effective adaptation to climate change
12 March 2007, Oxford University Centre for the Environment - How does environmental governance affect the poor? Global and local forces shaping poverty alleviation in Africa
25 Jan 2007, Oxford University Centre for the Environment - How much data do we need to effectively manage coral reef fisheries?
24th April 2006, Oxford University Centre for the Environment