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AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE CAM MEETING HELD ON 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 AGREEMENTS: Master Thesis: •
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At the beginning of November, the coordinator will meet students to explain on how the Master Thesis is worked and the list of available topics and supervisors. A research lines presentation by the supervisors will follow. Students should meet individually the coordinator to confirm on their supervisor and research topic before they can start their Master Thesis’s work. To be eligible as a supervisor, you should commit yourself to participate as a tribunal member in the Master Theses defences. Each professor can only supervise a maximum of 2 Master Theses (depending on registration, this limit can be lower to 1). The Master Thesis defences, both in July and September, will be organised within the established calendar based on the master specialisation. Schedules will be appointed according to the committee organization and the coordinator of each specialisation. Defence calendar: o Second week of February (only for students coming from previous years or taking additional credits to access the PhD) o Last week of June and first week of July. o Second and third week of September. Each Master Thesis defence will consist on a 30‐minute oral presentation, followed by 15 minutes of questions by the committee. Defences will be scheduled at a rate of one per hour. Carme Miralles‐Guasch. October, 2013 ACUERDOS ADOPTADOS EN LA CAM DEL 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2013 ACUERDOS: Trabajos de Fin de Máster (TFM): •
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A principios de Noviembre se iniciarán los TFM con una reunión por parte de la coordinadora con todos los alumnos para explicarles el funcionamiento y las posibilidades de temas y profesores. Posteriormente, se hará una presentación de las ofertas de posibles temas por parte de los profesores. Se hará una sesión de tutoría individual con cada alumno para concretar tema y director del TFM (obligatoria para poder empezar el trabajo). Los profesores que quieran dirigir TFM deberán comprometerse a formar parte de los tribunales de evaluación como presidentes y/o vocales. No se podrán dirigir más de 2 TFM por profesor (en función de los datos de matrícula, este límite podría rebajarse a 1). Los tribunales de TFM de Julio y Septiembre se organizarán por especialidades dentro del calendario establecido. La asignación de día y hora se hará de acuerdo con la organización de tribunales y del coordinador de la especialidad. Los calendarios: Segunda semana de Febrero (sólo para los estudiantes de cursos anteriores o que hagan complementos de formación para acceder al doctorado) Última semana de Junio y primera de Julio Segunda y tercera semana de Septiembre La defensa de los TFM consistirá en una exposición oral de 30 minutos por estudiante, seguida por 15 minutos de preguntas del tribunal. Se programará una defensa de TFM cada hora. Carme Miralles‐Guasch 10 de Octubre de 2013 ACORDS ADOPTATS A LA CAM DEL 26 DE SETEMBRE DEL 2013 ACORDS: Treballs fi de Màster (TFM): •
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A principis de novembre s’iniciaran els TFM amb una reunió per part de la coordinadora amb tots els alumnes per explicar‐los‐hi el funcionament i les possibilitats de temes i professors. Posteriorment, es farà una presentació de les ofertes de possibles temes per part del professors. Es farà una sessió de tutoria individual amb cada alumne per concretar tema i director del TFM (obligatòria per poder començar el treball). Els professors que vulguin dirigir TFM s’hauran de comprometre a formar part dels tribunals d’avaluació com a presidents i/o vocals. No es podran dirigir més de 2 TFM per professor (en funció de les dades de matrícula, aquest límit es podria rebaixar a 1). Els tribunals de TFM de juliol i setembre s’organitzaran per especialitats dins el calendari establert. L’assignació de dia i hora es farà d’acord amb l’organització de tribunals i el coordinador d’especialitat. Els calendaris: Segona setmana de febrer (només pels estudiants de cursos anteriors o que fan complements de formació per accedir al doctorat) última setmana de juny i primera de juliol segona i tercer setmana de setembre La defensa dels TFM consistirà en una presentación oral de 30 minuts per estudiant, seguida de 15 minuts de preguntes del tribunal. Es programarà una defensa de TFM cada hora. Carme Miralles‐Guasch octubre de 2013 EdificiCn – Campus de Bellaterra
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès · Barcelona
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[email protected] · www.uab.cat/icta
Call for an MSc student in Environmental Studies
Mapping indigenous’ observations of climate change
Requisite: Student of the Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental,
Economic and Social Sustainability (MEISAES, ICTA-UAB) or the Joint European
Master in Environmental Studies: Cities and Sustainability (JEMES CiSu).
Profile: Multidisciplinary training related to Environmental Sciences, elementary
cartographical skills, interest on ethnoecological research.
Description: While climate models are very effective at providing global information
on climate change, their ability in detecting impacts at the local scale is less reliable.
Recent studies throughout the world are documenting that indigenous peoples are great
observers of recent climatic changes, probably because their livelihoods depend on
natural resources that are directly affected by impending changes. For this reason,
indigenous peoples are increasingly being recognized as potential allies to understand
climate change at the local and regional scales. In this sense, indigenous knowledge
held by local communities can benefit climate science and policy. Local knowledge can
help policy-makers to design mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change
that are more finely attuned to the specific characteristics of particular social-ecological
systems. Yet, international programs -such as the IPCC- have put little consideration to
the understandings of climate change by indigenous societies, arguably because most
information is still fragmentary and disperse and no systematic compilation of
observations and case studies has been performed at the global scale.
Objective: The proposed MSc thesis will consist of a literature review on the topic of
indigenous peoples and climate change. The overall objective is to build a global map of
indigenous observations of climate change, on the basis of all the published information
on the topic and by means of cartographical software. A systematic account of all the
changes recorded by indigenous peoples (e.g. changes in temperature, snow cover,
species composition or phenology, among others) will be also part of the student’s MSc
thesis.
Technical details: This thesis will be directed by Victoria Reyes-García (ICREAICTA) and Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares (ICTA). The review will be submitted as a
paper to the ICR Journal “Climatic Change” (Springer).
Deadline: the 17th November 2013
If you are interested in participating in this project, please
[email protected] and/or [email protected]
write:
EdificiCn – Campus de Bellaterra
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
CALL FOR A MASTER STUDENT IN
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Easterlin in the woods.
A test of the Easterlin paradox among a hunter-gatherer population
Requisite: Student of the Master of Environmental Studies (ICTA) or the
Joint European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES). Strong
background in economics and familiarity with Stata will be valued.
Description: In a seminal paper published in 1974, Richard A. Easterlin
argued that although at any particular time richer individuals are happier
than poorer ones, over time societies do not become happier as they
become richer. This so-called Easterlin paradox has generated a growing
body of literature with conflicting evidence. Because a full test of the
Easterlin paradox requires time series data, studies on the connection
between individual income and happiness have been mostly done using
time series measurements from European and North American countries.
Due to the difficulty of collecting long term data among rural populations,
our knowledge is much more limited on how this relation works in other
cultural contexts, where different mores, social norms, religious beliefs,
and livelihoods likely affecting notions of the relative importance of
income and subjective wellbeing.
The proposed master thesis would analyze the connection between income
growth and subjective wellbeing using 8 years of panel data collected
among the Tsimane’, a hunter-gatherer population in the Bolivian Amazon.
The student will use these data for her/his Master thesis. The thesis will be
directed by Victoria Reyes-García (ICREA-ICTA). It is expected that a
refined version would be submitted to an international peer-reviewed
journal.
If you are interested writing your thesis on this topic contact:
<[email protected]>
Deadline: 15 November 2013
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
The role of storage in the resilience of social-ecological systems.
A literature review
Joint European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES).
Description: The capacity to store food is a relatively recent acquisition in
human history that is intimately linked with food processing and
conservation. The accumulation of food through storing is fundamental for
resilience and food security. Storing allows preservation of food over
longer periods of time, also reducing dependency on seasonal conditions.
The ability to store food might also increase resilience by helping societies
to smooth food consumption when facing expected (i.e., seasonal) or
exceptional (i.e., droughts, floods, or freezes) environmental events
affecting food production. Despite the importance of food storage for long
term food security and sovereignty, to date, we lack a clear understanding
of how this particular strategy has contributed to the resilience of socialecological systems.
The proposed master thesis would consist of a literature review on the topic
of storage and resilience (largely drawing on literature from anthropology,
archeology, and environmental history). The student will use these data for
her/his Master thesis. The thesis will be directed by Victoria Reyes-García
(ICREA-ICTA) and Erik Gómez-Baggethun (ICTA). The review will be
submitted as a paper to a Special Issue on storage in the international
journal “Environmental Archaeology. The Journal of Human
Palaeoecology” (http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/env/). The
Special Issue is being edited by Dr. A. Balbo (CaSEs at IMF-CSIC).
Deadline: 15 October 2013
If you are interested in participating in this project contact:
<[email protected]> and/or <[email protected]>
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
A road through TIPNIS & TIM (Bolivian Amazon).
The historical political ecology of an environmental conflict.
Joint European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES). Basic
knowledge of remote sensing and GIS will be highly valued.
Description: Despite recent progressive policies in favor of indigenous
rights and conservation, Bolivia’s development policies continue to present
conflicting interest with those ideals. The proposed Master thesis will
combine insights from historical political ecology and environmental
remote sensing to analyze one of the current major conflicts in the
Amazon: the construction of a road through the Isiboro-Sécure National
Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) and the Multiethnic Indigenous
Territory (TIM), a major transport highway project from Bolivia to Pacific
ports, part of a Brazilian-led effort (IIRSA), the Initiative for the Regional
Integration of South America
The proposed Master thesis would collect background literature to analyze
the role of different stakeholders in this environmental conflict. The student
might also have to conduct basis analysis with existing processed remote
sensing data in the context of the environmental history of the area. The
student will use these data for her/his Master thesis. The thesis will be
directed by Victoria Reyes-García (ICREA-ICTA) and also supervised by
Jaime Paneque-Gálvez (CIGA-UNAM, Mexico), and/or Martí Orta (ICTAUAB). It is expected that a refined version of the thesis would be submitted
to an international peer-reviewed journal.
If you are interested writing your thesis on this topic contact:
<[email protected]>
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
No-Net Loss Policy in Spain: Emerging discourses and valuation conflicts
Requisite: Student of the Master of Environmental Studies (ICTA) or the Joint
European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES). Interest in
ecosystem services and environmental conflicts research is valued. Written and
oral proficiency in English is appreciated.
Description: Green economy proponents suggest that governments should
develop and mainstream regulatory frameworks to compensate for the
unavoidable impacts of built infrastructure, in order to strengthen regulations on
impact assessment and on-site remediation measures. This is not a new idea, as it
has been under implementation in the USA since the early 1990s (Robertson
2000) and several of the EU Nature Directives (Birds, Habitats), the
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and the Environmental Liability
Directive explicitly refer to terms related to compensation, such as 'compensatory
measures', 'compensation for adverse effects' and 'remedial compensation',
respectively Since 2011, when the European Commission adopted a new strategy
to halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services by 2020, discussions on
how to develop an integrative "No-Net-Loss" (NNL) policy framework by 2015
started, and consultations with potentially involved actors were undertaken in
2012, with a preliminary, independent report being issued (Conway et al. 2013).
Any NNL policy should be founded upon a complex legislative and institutional
architecture that some EU countries like Spain have just begun to design. NNL
requires identifying sites for compensation and remediation, the development of
ecological parameters that allow for comparison between impacted and protected
or remediated sites and, of course, the development of an economic exchange
system that quantifies the cost of remediation and transfers the correspondent
resources from developers to offset implementers. The NNL principle and
Spain's early development have already spurred media attention and varied and
conflicting responses from multiple actors from government and civil society.
The proposed master thesis would thus consist of examining the history and
rationale of the Spanish NNL initiative (i.e. related laws and policy programs)
and engage with policy-makers, affected private sector parties, and potential or
actual beneficiaries of conservation actions through semi-structured interviews to
identify competing discourses around ecosystem services valuation,
compensatory measures, technical challenges and other issues.
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
The research will conceptually extend the work of Robertson and Lave's on
wetland banking and stream restoration in the USA (Lave et al. 2010; Lave 2012)
- informed by political ecology and Science & Technology Studies - to unearth
the potential but also the contradictions of accounting and valuing ecosystems'
impacts and offsets, as well as the effect that the implementation of NNL may
have on corporate behavior and public perceptions of environmental change.
The MSc dissertation will be directed by Esteve Corbera (Ramón y Cajal-ICTA)
and targeted for publication in an international peer-review journal. If the student
proves responsible and competent, there may be opportunities for undertaking a
PhD on the topic, starting September 2014.
If you are interested please contact: <[email protected]>
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
The miombo woodlands in Tanzania: ecology, livelihoods and politics
European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES). Interest in African
rural development is valued. Written and oral proficiency in English is
appreciated.
Description: Miombo woodlands are a type of tree-dominated African savannah,
which is present in the central, southern and eastern parts of the continent,
covering parts of Tanzania, DRC, southern Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
and Mozambique. The miombo is dominated by the genera Brachystegia,
Julbernardia and/or Isoberlinia and it has historically been influenced by the
livelihoods and resource management practices of more or less mobile rural
groups and settlements. Among such practices, induced and (un-)controlled fire
management plays a central role in establishing non-permanent farming areas,
reconfiguring landscape patches and influencing resource availability over the
annual seasons. To date there have been some attempts to synthesize existing
literature on the evolution of miombo socio-ecological systems (notably
Campbell et al. 1996) but no thorough attempt has been made for Tanzania alone.
The proposed MSc thesis would thus consist of a literature review on the latest
published research (1995-2013) referring to the evolution of the ecology, the
livelihoods and the politics of rural development in Tanzania's miombo
woodlands. The research will draw on grey and academic literature from
anthropology, ecology, ecological economics, human geography and political
ecology to identify key developments and trends in the co-evolution of
Tanzania's miombo woodlands and their people, paying particular attention to the
role of policy in shaping such evolution. The thesis will be directed by Esteve
Corbera (Ramón y Cajal-ICTA) and Kaysara Khatun (ICTA). The review will be
submitted to an international journal and inform an international project ongoing
in the region (www.mcdiconservation.org)
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
CALL FOR A MASTER STUDENT
ANTHROPOLOGY / ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Migration, Kinship and Friendship networks in a pastoralist
community of India: Literature review and data analysis
Requisite: Student of the Master in Anthropology (to be confirmed) or of
the Master of Environmental Studies (ICTA) or the Joint European Master
program in Environmental Studies (JEMES)
Description: If social networks analysis has gained full recognition as an
indispensable tool to grab the relational dimensions of social life, few
studies until now have applied this perspective to semi-nomadic pastoralist
communities. One key feature of nomadic and semi-nomadic livelihoods
rests in the specific social organization that migration implies, through the
constitution of migratory collectives. The objective of this work is therefore
to understand which relations play a determining role in forming migratory
collectives and how these relations survive outside the migratory context.
The proposed master thesis would consist of a literature review on this
topic, and of the analysis of social network data that has been collected in
Gujarat (India) among communities of semi-nomadic shepherds (the
Rabari/Raika), within the framework of the SimulPast project
(www.simulpast.es). The thesis will be directed by Matthieu Salpeteur
(ICTA). It is expected that a refined version of the thesis would be
submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal.
If you are interested writing a thesis on this topic contact:
<[email protected]>
Edifici Cn – Campus de Bellaterra
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
Does Community-Based Conservation really work?
European Master program in Environmental Studies (JEMES). Interest in biodiversity
conservation and rural development is valued. Written and oral proficiency in English is
appreciated.
Description: Over the last two decades, evidence on the role that indigenous and rural
communities around the world play in the conservation of biodiversity and natural
resources has exponentially increased (e.g. Ostrom, 1990; Agarwal et al. 2011).
Coupled with evidence that conventional protected area conservation was leading to
conflicts and impoverishment of affected local populations (e.g. Adams and Hutton,
2007), and with a growing number of countries working toward the recognition of
indigenous peoples' rights and tenure systems (e.g. Corbera et al., 2011), the pursuit of
conservation has increasingly encompassed the development of formalized, indigenous
and community-based conservation areas. As of today, however, no systematic analysis
of emerging, peer reviewed case-study evidence on community-based conservation
areas has been conducted. It is thus critical to start collecting available case-study
evidence from around the world and to analyse the extent to which these conservation
approaches result, on the one hand, in effective biodiversity conservation and, on the
other, in the improvement of indigenous peoples' wellbeing. In doing so, it will be
possible to identify the drivers and variables that lead to (in)effective biodiversity
conservation and that impact on development outcomes.
The proposed master thesis would thus first consist of developing a set of research
questions and hypotheses related to community-based conservation areas. Second, it
would require collecting all available peer reviewed literature on community-based
conservation areas based on a number of search criteria and key words in Science
Direct, Scopus and Web of Knowledge. Third, the dissertation would entail reading all
or some of the articles found and systematizing the information in a previously designed
database. Fourth, data will be analysed to test the pre-defined hypotheses and discuss
the effectiveness of community-based conservation areas in protecting biodiversity and
supporting rural development.
The MSc dissertation will be directed by Esteve Corbera (Ramón y Cajal-ICTA) and
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén and targeted for publication in an international peer-review journal.
The publication will also inform the EU-FP7 project COMBIOSERVE
(www.combioserve.net) and may result in a report targeted at the conservation and
environmental policy communities in the EU and beyond.
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
Analysis of CO2 emissions from the trips generated at UAB
Description: UAB conducts a survey of mobility behavior of the university community
since the year 2000. This year (2013) data is already available for its seventh edition.
One of the results provided is the modal distribution of the daily trips that have the
university campus as a destination. A fact which is directly related to CO2 emissions.
Goal: the aim would be to measure the generation of this kind of emissions departing
from the data made available by the whole university community. Or what is the same:
the demand of trips. This is a new approach when considered the traditional measures
that only take into account the supply of transport. Using this dataset allows to relate
greenhouse gas emissions with some characteristics of the studied groups such as
social structure, gender or age.
Requirements: Knowledge of SPSS software is essential
Análisis de las emisones de CO2 por parte de los viajes generados
en la UAB
Requisitos: Student of the Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental,
Descripción: la UAB realiza una encuesta de hábitos de movilidad de la comunidad
universitaria desde el año 2000. Este año (2013) se tienen los datos de su séptima
edición. Una de las informaciones que sus resultados facilitan es el reparto modal de
los desplazamientos cotidianos que tienen al campus universitario como destino. Un
dato directamente relacionado con las emisiones de CO2.
Objetivo: Se trataría de medir la generación de estas emisiones desde la información
que proporciona comunidad universitaria, es decir la demanda de desplazamientos.
Un enfoque nuevo, si se considera que las mediciones tradicionales se contemplan sólo
desde la oferta de transporte. La utilización de esta base de datos permite relacionar
las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero con la estructura social, el género o la
edad del colectivo estudiado
Condiciones: Impresindible conocer el SPSS
The work will be directed by Dr. Carme Miralles-Guasch (ICTA and Department of
Geography) and Dr. Loui Lemkow (ICTA and Department of Sociology).
Contact person: [email protected]
Tel.:(+34) 93 581 29 74 · Fax: (+34) 93 581 33 31
Contribution of organic matter to the Sea
by airborne pollen and spores
Requisite: Student of the Master in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental,
Description: The aim of the project is to evaluate the contribution of organic
matter originating from airborne pollen and spores deposited in the
Mediterranean coastal ecosystem. To do such an estimate, a time series of daily
pollen and spores counts from Blanes (Girona) will be used. The student's work
will involve measuring the size distribution of pollen and spores using light
microscopy and /or use directly the results of the aerobiological analyses and
make calculations of the biomass and organic matter they contain based on
literature review data. Meteorological parameters and wind trajectories will be
used to estimate the contribution in the marine coastal zone. These estimates will
be compared with measurements of total atmospheric deposition in the area.
The work will be co-directed by Dr. Jordina Belmonte (ICTA and Department of
Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology) and Dr. Francesc Peters (Institute of
Marine Sciences, CSIC).
The results will be used in the project ADEPT (Aerosol deposition and ocean
plankton dynamics, CTM2011-23458).
Contact person: [email protected]

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