Learning experience/ capacity building / scholarly activity

Scholarly activity is of central importance for our centre. We offer and develop modules that link research and practice with teaching, and that foster our cooperations with partners. On this page we are going to present our teaching activities related to econics and ecosystem management.

In June 2013 the annual course on Adaptive Conservation Site Management in Eberswalde, for the first time, was delivered in cooperation with WWF Germany. Three student teams analysed project sites in South America, which are related to the project Amazonia viva. WWF staff, Dirk Embert and Nioclas Boenisch, delivered lectures and provided insights into real-life conservation work. The students, who study International Forest Ecosystem Management, applied the instrument of adaptive conservation management "Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation" to the project sites in Peru and Colombia. In Eberswalde the Open Standards are taughtfor many years now. Former students have become professional coaches and work with in research projects or with conservation NGO.

In summer 2012, the students learned to apply the Conservation Measures Partnership's Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to the situation of Sierra del Lacandón National Park in Guatemala. This park is one of our partners. OroVerde e.V. supports the park and the NGO Defensores de la Naturaleza, among others implementing a project potentially preparing a REDD+ activity.

Earlier this year, we also used the example of this park in Guatemala to test, discuss and develop our MARISCO method (Adaptive Management of Risk and Vulnerability at Conservation Sites) with students of the Global Change Management course.

Co-organizers of the 2011 module: Lena Strixner and Daniela Aschenbrenner, Eberswalde, with Xavier Escute

In the week from June 20-25 2011, Xavier Escute, from Barcelona, Spain (Obra Social de CatalunyaCaixa. Area de Territori i Medi Ambient), coach with the European Coaches Network, together with staff of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management has given the module Adaptive Conservation Site Management. This module is an elective module of the curriculum of the International Forest Ecosystem Management Bachelor study programme at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development.

The module has been organized in cooperation with the European Coaches Network and the Student Coaches Network (student coaches: Daniela Aschenbrenner, Nico Boenisch, Felix Cybulla, Laura Geiger).

The Adaptive Conservation Site Management is one of the core modules to be further developed by the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management.