UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks; 2009 - unesdoc - Unesco

Argentina/Argentine
UNESCO-Cousteau Ecotechnie Chair (1998)-ID Chair (9)
Host institution: Universidad Nacional de General San Martín
Fields / Disciplines: Environment related disciplines
Objectives:
- To define a multi-field program articulating the environmental variable in the economic
and social development in order to better face the challenge of the contemporary
ecological complexity. A particular attention will be turn to high level research and
empirical analysis through case study.
- To work out new methods and techniques, as well for the process of decision-making as
for the natural resources management. The chair is the focal point of a national network
of UNESCO-Cousteau chairs.
Major activities:
Education/Training:
Master (MGA) y Especialización (EGA) Programme in Environmental Management Course
length: two years and thesis (MGA); three fourth month periods and final work (EGA).
Courses
Permanent Training in Environmental Management
Environmental Economy
Evaluation of Environmental Impact
Urban Environmental Management
Methodology of Scientific Investigation
Environmental Planning
Environment and Urban Space
Environmental Culture
Sustainable Development
Management of Environmental Projects
Management of Protected Areas
Management of the Industrial Wastes
Systems of Environmental Information II
Local Environmental Management
Research and Development:
Pluridisciplinary studies of problematic on the environmental preservation. Integration of actions
of physics and environmental, recycled chemistry of materials and plastics, biological and
toxicológicos analisis, evaluation of the contamination; environmental, education, policy, legal
and economic aspects.
Results/Impact:
Creation of a Sub-seat of the Chair in the Provincia de Jujuy with base in the “Fundación para el
Ambiente Natural y el Desarrollo (FUNDANDES)” with the intention of contributing to
pluridisciplinarios studies associate to the economy, social sciences, the oriented ecology and the
technology to tactical missions for which three initiatives related to actions of UNESCO focus:
Reserve of the Biosphere Laguna de los Pozuelos y Reserve of the Biosphere of the Yungas;
world-wide network of the "Man and Biosphere Program".
UNESCO Chairholder: Prof. Alberto Morán
Contact: Escuela de postgrado, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Director Ejecutivo
Prof. Miguel Angel Blesa, Escuela de postgrado, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Director Académico
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