INFOTERRA: 2002 Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program
Attached, please find a description of our postgraduate fellowship
opportunity, the Watson International Scholars of the Environment
Program. Focusing upon mid-career environmental leaders from developing
nations, we are again providing an intensive, 3.5 month curriculum at Brown
University (Providence, RI, USA). The opportunity is offered in
collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
Henry Luce Foundation. May we please trouble you to forward this so that
it reaches the appropriate individuals from relevant non-governmental
organizations, university faculties and/or governmental agencies?
We seek an unusual range of practitioners applied scientists, policy
experts and technologists from within the diverse fields of environment who
can find linkages among the complex array of global environmental
challenges we now face. The Program participants will benefit from an
intensive, integrated curriculum. The opportunity we offer is relevant and
transferable to developing nation contexts of biodiversity conservation,
ecosystem management, global climate change, environmental health and
ecological economics. Current approaches and tools they will acquire
include (among others): geographic information systems (GIS), remote
sensing, environmental conflict resolution, rapid biodiversity assessment,
ecological risk assessment, monitoring and predictive modeling.
An active field component in Washington, DC and the greater Boston, MA
region involves the World Resources Institute, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Conservation International, the environment division of
the World Bank, Cultural Survival, the Smithsonian Institution, the
Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole), several
consulting firms and additional universities.
Approximately 12-15 participants will be selected for this year's program,
running from 23 January - 8 May, 2002. Those completing the curriculum
successfully will receive UNEP/Watson certification in global ecosystem
science, policy and management. All should be fluent in English and
capable of leading supported workshops upon returning to their home
countries, enabling further dissemination of the curricula, methods and
perspectives gained. The program is very challenging, hours are long and
fellowship support is conservative. Accordingly, home institutions and
governments generally enable leave-with-pay, airfare to/from the U.S. and
purchase of books and winter clothing.
Our grant from the Henry Luce Foundation is also supporting Program
graduates to implement portions of their training in-country, upon
returning home. Brown University undergraduates, graduate students and
faculty are actively involved in this process of North-South dialog and
environmental science, policy and technology collaboration.
Thank you for considering this request for assistance in distributing the
appended invitation to apply, which applicants must return to us, fully
completed, by 10 October, 2001.
Sincerely,
Richard E. Wetzler, Ph.D. ([email protected])
Director, Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program
Kevin W. von See Dahl ([email protected])
Program Coordinator, Watson International Scholars of the Environment
Program
Global Environmental Program, Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University, Box 1970
172 Meeting Street, Room 209
Providence, RI, USA 02912
Telephone: 401.863.9932 Fax: 401.863.3808
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Sponsor:
The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, in
collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
Henry Luce Foundation
Dates:
23 January - 8 May, 2002
Participants:
12-15 mid-career environmental leaders from non-governmental organizations,
university faculties, and government agencies of developing nations, in
full-time residence throughout the program's semester duration.
Objective:
Rapid expansion of environmental science, policy and management capacities
among developing nations in which much of the world's biological diversity
is at risk within imperiled ecosystems. Environmental capacity-building is
sought through close work with carefully selected leaders, their
institutions and nations. Participants return to their home countries
ready to disseminate the strategic approaches and tools acquired during
their residency in the Global Environmental Program at Brown University's
Watson Institute. With their expanded integrative skills, such leaders
play critical roles in the formulation and implementation of the world's
500+ international environmental treaties.
Scope:
An intensive postgraduate curriculum linking relevant approaches of
ecosystem assessment, biodiversity conservation, environmental conflict
resolution, environmental health, applications of geographic information
systems (GIS), regional response to global climate change, coastal resource
management, watershed dynamics, ecological economics and participatory
rural appraisal. Interdisciplinary focus involving case studies,
discussion sessions, field visits, simulations, project development, and
acquiring critical tools. Science, policy and technology interfaces are
explored within core curricula, specialized modules, elective course work
and global environment seminars in the program, at Brown and throughout the
Boston region. Extensive liaison with international research and
sustainable development agencies of the Boston-Washington region. Focus on
linking tools and approaches from across disciplines provides excellent
preparation for the upcoming "Rio + 10" meetings in Johannesburg and other
global environmental conventions.
Certificate:
Successful completion of the intensive curriculum results in awarding of
the UNEP Certificate in Integrated Environmental Management.
Cost:
Program fees, materials, software, health insurance, housing, meal plan and
books total $17,809. Participants home institutions and governments
generally provide airfare, leave with pay, book and winter clothing
allowances. Support in the form of several partial or full fellowships is
available through the program and through external agencies upon
application.
Admission:
Admission is highly selective and competition for fellowship support is
intense. Applications for admission can be requested by:
-Downloading the application from our website:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/programs/hhpe/ise/WIS…
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elcome.html
- Emailing request to: [email protected]
- Faxing request to: 401.863.3808
- Mailing request via courier to: Watson Scholars Program, Global
Environment Program,
Watson Institute, Box 1970, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912,
USA. Please allow
enough time and include email or fax information.
Deadline:
For full consideration, application forms must be received by 10 October,
2001.