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SUMMARY:E-Learning Course: Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: The Nexus between Water\, Energy and Food
DESCRIPTION:Overview \nIn this course you will become familiar with the ideas of the water-energy-food nexus and transdisciplinary thinking. You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water\, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern\, as well as to map the categories of social actors. We will provide you with the tools to measure the nexus elements and to analyze them in a coherent way across scales and dimensions of analysis. In this way\, your quantitative analysis will become useful for informed decision-making. You will be able to detect and quantify dependence on non-renewable resources and externalization of environmental problems to other societies and ecosystems (a popular ‘solution’ in the western world). Practical case studies\, from both developed and developing countries\, will help you evaluate the state-of-play of a given community or country and to evaluate possible solutions. Last but not least\, you will learn to see pressing social-ecological issues\, such as energy poverty\, water scarcity and inequity\, from a radically different perspective\, and to question everything you’ve been told so far. \n\nLevel: Intermediate\nCommitment: 4-6 hours/week\nLanguage of Instruction: English\nPass all graded assignments to complete the course\n\nView Syllabus Here \nEnrollment and Dates \nEnroll can be completed on the Coursera website. This course is offered a 8 weekly intervals with the upcoming enrollment and start dates: \n\n10 February 2020 (enrollment closing 15 February)\n6 April 2020 (enrollment closing 11 April)\n1 June 2020 (enrollment closing 6 June)\n27 July 2020 (enrollment closing 1 August 2020)\n\nIntended Participants \nThe course is directed toward upper-division undergraduate and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines (environmental sciences\, engineering\, agricultural sciences\, social sciences) as well as professionals (NGOs\, think tanks) and policy makers concerned with sustainable development in both developed and developing countries. \nInstructors \nMario Giampietro\, ICREA Research Professor\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nAndrea Saltelli\, Guest researcher\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nTarik Serrano\, Post-Doc Researcher\nInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) \nCourse Creator  \nThe Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public university located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. International in its outlook\, it is fully consolidated within its local surroundings\, and offers quality education in close association with research activity\, the transfer of scientific\, technological\, cultural and educational knowledge\, the promotion of its human potential and the responsible management of available resources. The UAB currently offers 81 degrees\, 130 official Master Programmes and 183 UAB-specific Masters Degrees. In addition\, it offers 174 lifelong learning programmes and 65 PhD Programmes\, 27 of which have been distinguished through Quality Awards. The UAB has a total of over 3\,500 teaching and research staff\, over 2\,000 administrative staff and over 40\,000 students. \n 
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SUMMARY:AfriAlliance MOOC on Social Innovation in Water and Climate Change in Africa
DESCRIPTION:AfriAlliance is delighted to announce that it’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Social innovation in water and climate change in Africa” will be held from 2 June to 12 July 2020! \nRegister and Learn More Here
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/afrialliance-mooc-on-social-innovation-in-water-and-climate-change-in-africa/
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SUMMARY:Dresden Nexus Conference
DESCRIPTION:*COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) Update\nDNC2020 will now take place as a virtual conference. \nWe hope to use this crisis as an opportunity to enable broader participation worldwide and will thus offer this event entirely free of charge. If you have already registered for the conference\, we will completely reimburse the delegate fees. \nIn order to keep up to date\, please check our website regularly. We will keep you informed about the developments of the programme\, the new digital formats\, and all related procedures. \nThe third Dresden Nexus Conference (DNC2020) will take place 3–5 June 2020 under the theme “Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society”. Dresden is one of Germany’s most dynamic cities; the capital of Saxony is known for its indomitably pioneering approach\, advancements in high technology\, and strong research landscape. \nDNC2020 aims to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy by focusing on identifying and discussing the concepts that nexus thinking offers to support the transition towards a circular economy. A Nexus Approach shares many synergies with the concept of a circular economy – a system that eliminates waste\, keeps resources in use\, and contributes to regenerating natural systems. \nProviding a platform for exchange on this topic is crucial to ensure the findings and good initiatives from the scientific community are communicated to the right actors for implementation – political decision makers as well as local stakeholders and representatives of the business community. DNC provides the scientific community opportunities to inform their initiatives through dialogue about the needs and challenges of political decision makers as well as local stakeholders and representatives of the business community. Across the scientific community itself\, this platform is important because the discussion around the Nexus Approach must be inter- and transdisciplinary\, involving\, for example\, the social sciences as well as practitioners. \nRegistration for the virtual conference will open soon \nFor more information click here
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