CLAS@Pitt Engagement Programming:
K-16 Opportunity: AMAZONIA: KNOW, DEVELOP, PRESERVE
Friday, September 9th at 5:30PM. Hybrid Event in 4130 Posvar Hall & Zoom.
Register here
K-12 Educators earn Act 48 Credit Hours
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.
CLAS has partnered with the Global Studies Center for "Amazonia: Know, Develop, Preserve" to introduce topics associated with sustainability, development, and conservation of the Amazon region. The Amazon is home to more than 30 million people, inside an area comprising nine countries in South America.
Participants will engage in critical thinking about issues in the Amazon including preservation, development, and sustainability. Examples include 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 about issues related to the Amazon region with a focus on sustainability, development, and conservation
- Improve understanding of a region that affects our daily lives and our future
- Align curriculum to PA state standards
- 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). Current Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Urban Studies. Since 1995, Dr. Szlafsztein has been a Professor at the Center of Amazonian Advanced Studies (NAEA) of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) 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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