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The ATREE Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies in collaboration with Pitchandikulam Forest, Auroville, Kalpavriksh and the South Asian Bioregional Working Group is happy to announce a 3-day certificate course.
Unit I: What is a bioregion?
Understanding through subconcepts like catchment, watershed, biome, geological structures, climatic zones and cultural and aesthetic rootedness to a place to learn about bioregions in India and the world.
Unit II: Diverse perspectives of Bioregionalism
Introduction to the concept of a bioregion from diverse perspectives- Historical, Conservation science, Social movement, decolonial perspective and decentralised governance perspective
Unit III : Visioning a bioregion in India
Using cartography to understand crucial bioregions like Sunderbans, Himalayas, East Coast
Unit IV : Place-politics-ecology
Understanding the influence of colonial, nation-state and industrial/development paradigms on bioregional understanding.
Unit V: Bioregionalism in practice
Field visit to Nadukuppam Village in the Kaluveli (coastal) Bioregion, TamilNadu
Unit VI: Marine Bioregions
Imagining a bioregionalism for the coast and the adjacent ocean
Unit VII : Environmental policy from a bioregional perspective
Importance of a bioregionalism framework and its implications today? History and present and future work done in India
Unit VIII: Bioregionalism, civil society and environmental governance
Unit IX: Toward a bioregional future in times of climate change
Discussing ways to get involved in the context of habitat degradation, land and coastal erosion, and pollution.
