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Tropilunch 11/12/2024 – Transdiciplinary Participatory research exchange program
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Tropilunch 11/12/2024 – Transdiciplinary Participatory research exchange program
Tropilunch presentations are recorded weekly when possible and posted to TCD’s YouTube Channel. Tropilunch is a weekly seminar run by graduate students from the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program. It provides a forum for a range of discussions and presentations related to student and faculty work and research. Students are provided with an opportunity
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Recent published paper by TCD’s Marianne Schmink; alum Danny Pinedo and collaborators on Transformative change for Amazonian socio-bioeconomies.
Access the article “Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomy’s for people and ecosystems in the Amazon” here. Current social-technical and political conditions threaten the integrity of the Amazon biome. Overcoming these lock-ins requires structural transformations away from conventional economies towards ‘socio-bioeconomies’ (SBEs). SBEs are economies based on the sustainable use and restoration of Amazonian
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Transdisciplinary Research in the Amazon Program Fieldwork
Updates from Bolivia by Program Coordinator Marliz Arteaga. The time has come for our five research teams to head into the field. They consist of 5 UAP students, 3 UF researchers, 5 academic mentors, 2 field mentors, and 1 program coordinator. They are set to spend the next two weeks in the Alto Madeira watershed.
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Check out the new interactive map of the TCD community
We are working on building an interactive map of the worldwide TCD community. We have started to populate it with info about our current TCD students and hope by the beginning of the new year to have both Faculty and Alumni information updated as well. This map will illustrate the geographic and thematic diversity of
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TCD present at COP16
TCD is excited to be present at COP16 – 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – as we share experiences and learn how we can better adapt academic research and education to advance biocultural conservation and move towards more just and equitable approaches to conservation. Our
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Remembering a beloved member of our TCD community
We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Meshach Pierre, a recent UF/TCD/Sociology alum who received a Master’s degree and a TCD graduate certificate. For his Master’s degree Meshach examined the human dimensions of human-jaguar conflict in the Rupununi region of Guyana, his home country. He applied the interdisciplinary conservation criminology framework in
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Thank you from the TCD Student Group
We would like to thank the TCD community very much for attending our Taste of the Tropics on Sunday, April 28th! As expected, it was a great gathering. We shared good food and had lots of fun while collaborating as a community with the TCD program. We want to thank our TCD program coordinators, faculty
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Fall 2024 TCD Orientation & Gathering
Join us to learn about the TCD Program and TCD Student Group and hear about events , opportunities and reconnect / meet current and new students and faculty! Friday, August 30, 2024@ 12-4 pm in Smather’s Library, Room 100Join us for lunch *RSVP HERE* TCD FALL ORIENTATION/GATHERING August 30, 2024 (12:00-4:00 w/ lunch) Library East
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