CLAS@Pitt Engagement Programming:
K-16 Opportunity: AMAZONIA: KNOW, DEVELOP, PRESERVE (09/09/2022)
For registration, click "HERE"-- Hybrid event.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) promotes global understanding through support for teaching, learning, and research in and on Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diverse diasporic communities of Latin American and Caribbean origin. The region has been characterized by tremendous innovation and approaches to education and public health while facing political, economic and social challenges.
For this workshop we have partnered with the Global Studies Center to introduce topics associated with the sustainability, development and conservation of the Amazon region. This course introduces significant topics associated with the sustainability of the Amazon region, where more than 30 million people live, inside an area comprising part of nine countries in South America. Almost 80% of the Amazon’s population is settled in urban areas.
This workshop engages with preservation and development issues in the Amazon region, promoting critical thinking about its current and future sustainability. We will work through approaches to the region’s role in water and food security, clean energy supplies, and climate change.
Keywords: Amazon region, sustainability, development, and conservation
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to learn issues related to the Amazon region, particularly related to sustainability, development, and conservation
- Improve understanding of a region that affects our daily lives.
- Align curriculum to state standards. This will allow teachers to have resources at hand to teach in their classroom as well as satisfy the requirement of teaching to the standards.
- For K-12 Educators earn Act 48 Credit Hours.
Presenter:
Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein, Doctor of Natural Science – Geography “Magna cum Laude” (2003, University of Kiel, Germany). Professor at the Center of Amazonian Advanced Studies (NAEA) of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) since 1995 and member of the Scientific Council of the Global Adaptation Institute (USA). He was the General Director of the UFPA - Centre of Environment (2014-2015), and Director of the UFPA’s International Relationship Office (2015-2019). He leads the Brazilian Council for Research’s (CNPq) “Research Group for Amazon Region Disasters.” He was President of the Environmental and Engineering Geology Association of Brazil (North Region) 2016-2020 and is Senior Consultant for GIZ (Germany) for Disaster and Climate Change in Brazil.
For more information about the workshop, please email: lavst12@pitt.edu
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