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Integrated Land Use Systems 2018 Summer School
Starting Date 18.06.2018

Integrated Land Use Systems 2018 Summer School

Name of Institution University of Freiburg
Country Germany
Course Type Certificate course
Duration 18 June - 06 July

The rapidly growing world population and changing consumption patterns are placing increasing pressure on agricultural and forestry production systems. However, the classic intensification approach to increase the yield of food and biomass by genetic standardization, mechanization and application of agrochemicals has led to ambivalent results. In many places, negative environmental...
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IPROMO 2018 Summer School: Bioeconomy in mountain areas – an opportunity for local development
Starting Date 18.06.2018

IPROMO 2018 Summer School: Bioeconomy in mountain areas – an opportunity for local development

Name of Institution Mountain Partnership, University of Turin and University of Tuscia
Country Italy
Course Type Certificate course
Duration 18 June - 2 July 2018

The IPROMO summer school will focus on several aspects that contribute to the fruitful management of mountain areas in the framework of bioeconomy, ranging from environmental conservation and water supply, to income generation and food security. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of a participatory approach whereby local...
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The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda
Starting Date 15.06.2018

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda

Name of Institution UN Climate Change–UNSSC
Country
Course Type Online course
Duration 6 Weeks

The online course offers a holistic and integrated approach to climate change. It demonstrates the interlinkages and interdependencies between sustainable development and climate change to make informed policy choices towards low-carbon and climate resilient sustainable development.  The course will frame climate change impact and action around five core cornerstones of the...
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Equitable Forest Governance: A Practical Approach
Starting Date 05.06.2018

Equitable Forest Governance: A Practical Approach

Name of Institution School of International Development, University of East Anglia
Country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Course Type Certificate course
Duration 9 days

This new short course provides managerial level professionals with state-of-the-art knowledge, skills and tools needed to design, implement and monitor more equitable and just forest governance schemes. Policy debates and on-the-ground work on new forest governance schemes, such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), payments for environmental services...
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Social Protection for Sustainable Development
Starting Date 04.06.2018

Social Protection for Sustainable Development

Name of Institution United Nations System Staff College
Country
Course Type Online course
Duration 04 June - 06 July 2018

The course comprises 5 modules over 5 weeks.  Week 1: Basics of social protection;  Week 2: Social protection and the 2030 Agenda;  Week 3: Global trends and good practices in extending social protection;  Week 4: Designing and implementing social protection systems;  Week 5: Tools at our fingertips. By the end of this online course, participants will...
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Geomatics for a Sustainable environment
Starting Date 04.06.2018

Geomatics for a Sustainable environment

Name of Institution University of Geneva
Country Switzerland
Course Type Certificate course
Duration June to September 2018

Give double competencies to professionals and students in geomatics and environmental fieldsAcquire knowledge for a set of tools linked to Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), Web mapping (e.g. Geoserver, Geonode, Geonetwork) and programming (e.g. Python for geoprocessing, R for geostatistics);Acquire specific knowledge on tools available to assess biodiversity, ecosystem...
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