Environmental Conflicts

 

Welcome to the 2nd Erasmus Summer School on Environmental Conflicts and Justice! 

Climate and ecological changes, economic crisis, and growing injustices are exacerbating conflicts over access and use of environmental resources around the world. Understanding the causes of conflicts and resolving them equitably requires a multi-disciplinary approach.

The second Summer School on Environmental Conflicts and Justice brings together some of Europe´s leading academics in the politics, ecology and economics of environmental conflicts to teach the next generation of researchers on these issues. The School will be held at the premises of ICTA, UAB in Barcelona from the 3rd to the 16th of July 2011. The School is coordinated by the Eco2BCN group (www.eco2bcn.es) of the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (icta.uab.es) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It is a joint project with the participation of the Universities of Manchester and Lund, the Central European University in Budapest and the Vienna Institute of Social Ecology, financed by the Spanish Organismo Autónomo Programas Educativos Europeos under the Erasmus program of the European Commission's DG for Education and Culture. Thirty students from the five participating institutes, all developing Masters or PhD research on the study of environmental conflicts, will receive specialised theoretical, methodological and empirical courses from authorities in the field to advance their research and professional skills.

The school is also supported with teachers from the European research projects CLICO (Climate Change Hydro-conflicts and Human Security, www.clico.org) and EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade). In the second week of the course a series of classes will focus on the evaluation and analysis of water-related conflicts and discussions on the interface of human security, climate change and water, as part of the teaching curriculum of the CLICO research project.

Website Information

In this website you can find a detailed program of events, and information about the participants (professors and teachers) and their research projects. This website is intended to work as a teaching tool for those who do not have the chance to participate in the school but want to learn more about the study of environmental conflicts. You can get access to the syllabus for the school as well to a "virtual classroom" where you can access previous summer school material.