Conferences

Theme: ImPlementing Landscape Ecology for Improved SustAinability and Societal Equity of Social-Ecological Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (PLEASE-SES)

Conference information:

The first summers school in 2021 will relatively be more generic focusing on conceptual issues of landscape ecology and its nexus with SDGs and the overall development agenda in Africa. the processes, underpinnings and trajectories will be addressed with a lens of tropical Africa.

This summer school will cover a number of SDGs including Goals 4,6,13,14,15 and 17. The tentative topics to be covered are depicted in the enclosed schedule.

The first summer school will cover the following topics

• Introduction: Landscape ecology in the Anthropocene: Perspectives, Contexts, States in SSA
• The scientific niche(s) of landscape ecology in the Sustainable Development Goals. Ecological sciences and territorial governance.
• Socio Ecological Systems (SES) under changing conditions. Cultivating plausible paths to resilience
• Harnessing and integration of Geo-Information Science and Citizens Science for systems resilience and sustainability
• Livelihood and ecological security: Tackling footprints, tradeoffs and interfaces in fragile systems
• Case study presentations by participant premised on their research work and experiences
• Field excursion on Mt. Elgon
• Summer school wrap up, evaluation and planning for the next event

https://vwsummerschool.mak.ac.ug/series/summer-school-2021-landscape-ecology-sustainable-development