GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY PART 1: Amazon Region

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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY 
PART 1: Regional and Global Governance Pertaining
to the Preservation of the Amazon Region

The University of Pittsburgh and the International Studies Consortium of Georgia (ISCOG) invite you to join the introductory session in an ongoing series focused on development, conservation, and sustainability contrasting dynamics and processes in different world regions. The sessions have been designed to help educators develop and enhance global content complementing their curricula. In addition to learning about thematic local/global intersections, educators will also explore Pitt’s Historical context, Ethics, Language proficiency, Media literacy, Social science methodologies (HELMS) framework for the area, and global studies. This collaborative series is funded through U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center grants.
 

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Online Event:

Global Sustainability
PART 1: Regional and Global Governance Pertaining to the Preservation of the Amazon Region
This series engages and promotes critical thinking about Amazonia’s current and future sustainability. We will work through approaches to the region’s role in water and food security, clean energy supplies, climate change, art, music, and cultural expressions.
 

Friday, April 14, 2023
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

We will also explore the ways the rest of the world “deals” with it; how does a region that seems so remote affect living beings all over the world? And, how policies created elsewhere aim to solve the sustainability and conservation challenges that Amazonia faces—such as Global politics and national leaders in the Amazon; International Organizations and development; Asian Investments in Amazon’s Agribusiness; European Chocolate, biodiversity in cocoa production and sales; global energy/global politics or Comparing Russian environmentalism and forests in Soviet times; decolonizing conservation in Africa among many other subjects and topics. Join us on this thoughtful exploration of different world regions and their importance to life on earth.

 
PARTICIPANTS: K-16 educators, MSIs, HBCUs, CCs educators, and administrators.
For PA K-12 Educators Earn Act 48 Credit Hours. 
 
KEYWORDS: Amazon region, sustainability, development, and conservation
 
OBJECTIVES: Participants will be able to learn about issues related to Amazonia, particularly related to development, sustainability, and conservation. Improve understanding of diversely different and clearly interconnected dynamics that affect daily lives all over the planet. This will allow educators to have resources at hand to teach in their classroom as well as satisfy the requirement of teaching to the standards.

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For questions, please email lavst12@pitt.edu or visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/outreach/events/global-sustainability

SPONSORS:

University Center for International Studies
   Center for African Studies
   Asian Studies Center
   European Studies Center
   Global Hub
   Global Studies Center
   Center for Latin American Studies
   Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

International Studies Consortium of Georgia (ISCOG)