The Amazon
An interdisciplinary seminar examining Amazonian conservation and development
[/fullwidth][section_separator divider_candy=”bottom” icon=”” icon_color=”” bordersize=”1px” bordercolor=”” backgroundcolor=”#dddddd” class=”” id=””][fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” parallax_speed=”0.3″ enable_mobile=”no” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][three_fifth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”” margin_top=”50px” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][fusionslider name=”amazon” class=”” id=””][/fusionslider][/three_fifth][two_fifth last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”” margin_top=”50px” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””]LAS 6290/4935 (21CE/111A) The Amazon, Fall 2015
Monday, 9:35-12:35 am, 376 Grinter Hall
Instructors: Dr. Marianne Schmink and Dr. Bette Loiselle
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[/two_fifth][/fullwidth][fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” parallax_speed=”0.3″ enable_mobile=”no” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”10px” padding_left=”0px” padding_right=”0px” hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][three_fifth last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””]This interdisciplinary seminar explores issues and controversies related to the interaction of ecology, history, socioeconomics and politics in shaping conservation and development issues in the Amazon, and the evolution of thinking about history, ecology, and development policies. The Amazon region provides a focal point to discuss major paradigm shifts and methodological innovations, ethical and political discussions, and conceptual debates in a variety of fields. The class explores competing development paradigms, big drivers, small drivers, and the dynamics between them at different times and places, as well as alternative local and global proposals – their promise and dilemmas.
The seminar on the Amazon combines guest lectures, discussion, and individual research papers/proposals. Taught for the first time in 1979, this course has evolved over more than three decades as an engaging interdisciplinary seminar that brings together diverse graduate students and UF faculty to discuss emerging issues such as deforestation, climate change, social movement mobilization and the complex impacts of hydroelectric dams in the region.
In 2015, for the first time the course will incorporate several global classroom sessions conducted in collaboration with graduate students and UF alumni faculty in universities in Brazil and Ecuador. Students enrolled in the seminar will work in collaboration with graduate students from these universities on small projects of mutual interest.
To learn more about when this course will be offered again, please contact Marianne Schmink (schmink [at] latam.ufl.edu) or Bette Loiselle (loiselleb [at] ufl.edu).
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