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Program Contact
Peter Newton
peter.newton@colorado.edu
The Sustainable Development in Brazil’s Forests: Education and Exchange program responds to requests from several Brazilian institutions: the former and current governors of the state of Amazonas, the State University of Amazonas (UEA) and the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Bahia. In 2018, UESC and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) established an interdisciplinary education and exchange program. In 2019, UEA and CU Boulder established collaborative opportunities around a new Rainforest Social Business School.
This education and exchange project focuses on conservation and sustainable development in Brazil’s forests. Governments, NGOs, universities, communities and businesses in Amazonas (in the Amazon forest biome) and southern Bahia (in the Atlantic Forest biome) are grappling with the challenge of how to conserve tropical forests while promoting sustainable pathways to low-emissions development. Their aim is to develop diversified forest-centric bio-economies that can achieve climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable livelihood objectives while avoiding the business-as-usual trends of deforestation, fires, biodiversity loss, poverty and inequality.
For Amazonas and Bahia to be successful, they need to a) train a cohort of skilled, motivated and experienced young professionals to work at the science-policy interface and b) develop international partnerships that support their objectives. This project addresses these needs by a) training graduate students from UEA, UESC and CU Boulder; and b) creating opportunities for lasting partnerships between these students and their professors. To achieve these aims, we will offer an interdisciplinary field course on sustainable development in Brazil’s forests in May 2023.
Course Development and Planning
Additional Info
The course will be planned by Dr. Peter Newton, Dr. Colleen Scanlan Lyons, and Dr. Bernard Amadei (CU Boulder), Dr. Jair Maia (UEA, Brazil), and Dr. Romari Martinez (UESC, Brazil).
Location
on campus
Dates
Ongoing
Public or Private
Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)
Program Fee
Not Applicable
Education Abroad class in Brazil
Additional Info
The course will take place during Maymester 2023.
Location
outside colorado
Dates
5/15/2023 - 6/3/2023
Public or Private
Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)
Program Fee
Yes
Sponsoring Units
College of Arts & Sciences
- Environmental Studies Program
College of Engineering & Applied Science
- Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
Other
Research Institutes
- Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)
Program Partners
- Governors' Climate and Forests Taskforce (CU Boulder)
- State University of Amazonas (UEA), Amazonas
- State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Bahia
Audiences Served
- Adult Learners
- Government
- Indigenous Populations
- International
- Rural Communities
- Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
Topics:
- Adult Education
- Climate Change/Global Warming
- Business/Economic Development
- Anthropology
- Environmental Policy
- Business Analysis/Forecasting
- Ecology
- Globalization
- Ecosystems
- Foreign Language and Literature
- Economics
- Environmental Science
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Studies
- Engineering
- Human Geography
- Sustainability
- Environment and Sustainability
- Political Science
- Life Sciences
- Politics and Public Policy
- Social Sciences