[Gender] Watson Institute program at Brown University

[Paula Zuñiga]

Dear Gender List,

 

Please see below details on an intensive advanced training, for your
information and distribution.

 

Best Regards,

 

Paula Zúñiga Díaz

 

 

 

The Watson Scholars program
(http://www.watsoninstitute.org/GE/Watson_Scholars/) brings environmental
leaders from university faculties, governments, and nongovernmental
organizations throughout the developing world to Brown University for
advanced training in land-change sciences and policies, providing them with
tools to enhance the sustainable development capacity in their countries. 

 

The program offers an intensive program in sustainable land-use science to
provide mastery of critical concepts, relevant tools, and transferable
processes necessary for successfully managing land and ecosystems. Supported
by a $550,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (http://hluce.org/), the
program offers Scholars time away from their daily responsibilities to learn
new skills with a community of scholars applying both theoretical and
practice approaches to real world environmental issues.



Full time for three and a half months, participants are involved in courses,
workshops, field trips, symposia, mentorship, professional networking, and
research projects. The Watson International Scholars of the Environment are
active participants, not passive students. Instruction focuses upon relevant
case studies of land-use patterns, and successful and unsuccessful
approaches to maintaining delivery of ecosystem goods and services from
throughout the world. The opportunity for participants entails increased
levels of effectiveness, informing sound decision-making by enhancing
abilities to rapidly integrate data from across disciplines. 

 

Investment in these leaders is strategic: participants are men and women
capable of creating lasting and immediately favorable impacts on the
sustainable development of their home institutions, eco-regions, and
nations. Accordingly, participants are expected to be at a mid-point within
their careers in environmental science, policy, and technology fields. The
program seeks individuals who want to forge new linkages among ideas and
issues, to develop networks among leaders facing similar land-use issues,
and to explore alliances with relevant colleagues and institutions for
improved personal and institutional effectiveness in meeting the needs of
humanity.

 


Please view the website to learn more: 
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/ge/watson_scholars/

The deadline for receipt of completed applications is 15 October 2006.
Please feel free to contact me with questions.

Best wishes,


Laura Sadovnikoff
Program Coordinator
Global Environment Program
Watson Institute for International Studies
Box 1970
111 Thayer Street
Brown University
Providence , Rhode Island   02912
tel: 401-863-9932
fax: 401-863-9733



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