All good issues, but I'd turn Matt's comment around for the following "Before
attending to structural and curricular details, I'd want the powers that be
(and/or those willing to finance a university) to explain in very clear
terms what THEIR vision of the country's future looks like". I'd love to
A fascinating question. The first thing that comes to my mind is that
all students should learn the rudiments of systems thinking, at least
at the level of Donella Meadows' book _Thinking in Systems_, and some
should take it much further.
The nationalism you mention is a potential source of seriou
2012 8:40 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] a vision?
A zillion years ago, I attended a workshop on conservation biology here in
the USA. There were three colleagues from Bhutan in attendance. With great
humbleness, they discussed an idea that, if I understoods correctly, was
There are many potentially devilish details to identify and consider. It's
not clear to me from David's scenario that founding a university is a good
investment. The chance that a developing country can begin producing
competitive academic-theoretical expertise in petroleum or hard mineral
extract
A zillion years ago, I attended a workshop on conservation biology here in
the USA. There were three colleagues from Bhutan in attendance. With great
humbleness, they discussed an idea that, if I understoods correctly, was
common in their academic circles: *gross national happiness*.
Peace and we
I wouldn't insist that everyone learn English in a new
University/Program in a highly nationalistic country, I don't think
that would go down too well. However, I would try to ensure that all
University employees had every opportunity and incentive to learn
English.
Cheryl
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at
The focus could be national happiness. See
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness#section_5.
So far as sustainability is concerned, we should start with preserving as much
of the remaining natural functioning of ecosystems that evolved over millions
of millennia. For their own
Interesting question, David. The most important part of the curriculum,
especially for a nation (and university) thinking hard about the future, is
steady-state economics. We need a new curriculum that addresses how to
build an economy that can meet people's needs without undermining the
life-sup
here's not enough information (context) to comment on the other questions.
"God is in the details." --Meis van der Rohe
WT
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Subject: [ECOLOG-L] a vision?
If you had a chance to
If you had a chance to found and direct a university in a developing,
strongly nationalistic country dependent on oil, mining and its
biodiversity (ecotourism, indigenous people), what would you have as its
curriculum? The university would cover all three fields. How should they
influence one anoth
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