2019-2020 / ENVT0063-1

Social anthropology of conservation

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

Part 2: Analysis of biodiversity conservation projects

Duration

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development : 18h Th
Part 2: Analysis of biodiversity conservation projects : 6h Pr

Number of credits

 Specialised master in environmental management in developing countries3 crédits 

Lecturer

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development : Dorothée Denayer
Part 2: Analysis of biodiversity conservation projects : Dorothée Denayer

Coordinator

Dorothée Denayer

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

The course aims at examining the representations of nature and environment at different times and in various places and at questioning the investigation tools and the representations of the students themselves. The main thread will be an "animal" entry. The squirrel, the elephant, the vulture , the beaver, the coypu, the bat, the fox (or other pests)... are considered to be frontier runners or to be linking different worlds, consequently allowing us to follow the natural balance, the exchanges as well as the conflicts, misunderstandings , adjustments, silences, contradictions or ruptures. Those are lines, threads or what G. Deleuze calls "des devenirs" , too, revealing the ambivalent , contradictory and ever changing character of the practices and biodiversity management modes and showing as well - the possible conflicts linked to them, - the forms of running of the territory ( some of them may be incompatible), - the scientific controversies , the emerging points of incertitude, - the economic and social priorities, intermingled and sometimes contradictory.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

The course purports to be gathering knowledge and questions connected with the anthropology of nature, socio-anthropology as well as with ecology, studies of animal populations , naturalistic knowledge and practices of territory management.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

cffr

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

Presentation of different case studies / Theoric classes / Flipped classroom

Recommended or required readings

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

Documents about various topics will be distributed for further reading.

Assessment methods and criteria

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

 

 Report :
- case study 
- reflexivity

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Part 1: Conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development

Dr. Dorothée Denayer
Socioecology and Nature Management
Dpt Environmental Sciences and Management
d.denayer@ulg.ac.be 
University of Liège - Campus d'Arlon 
Avenue de Longwy 185, 6700 Arlon 
Tél : 0032 63 23 09 44

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

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