Graduate Program in Environment and Society

State University of Campinas

Ciudade Universitária 'Zeferino Vaz'
Geraldo - SP
6194
Brazil https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/english
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Graduate Program in Environment and Society

Action category:  Education and Curriculum
Associated keywords:  environment,  Society,  Brazil,  South America,  graduate
Latest update: 05/31/2017

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goal : Responsible consumption & production
Sustainable Development Goal : Quality education
Sustainable Development Goal : Climate action
Sustainable Development Goal : Affordable & clean energy

Presentation

The graduate program is an academic training in Environment and Society.

Objectives

  • to provide the means and instruments for specialists from different areas to be able to establish a dialog

  • to provide a theoretical and methodological grounding that allows an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues, their consequences in the field of conservation and the different dimensions of sustainability

  • to provide theoretical and methodological support for students so that they can work with specific problems associated with different alternatives in the search for sustainability

Main activities

Major in Biological Aspects of Sustainability and Conservation

  • Characterization and conservation of biodiversity
  • Energy and sustainability
  • Use of natural resources (scarcity and abundance): knowledge, conflicts and institutional political aspects

Major in Social Aspects of Sustainability and Conservation

  • Lines of Research
  • Social, demographic, political, territorial and economic dynamics of sustainability

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