Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
The Institute of International Studies is pleased to announce the Ford Foundation Environment and Culture Residential Fellowship Program. This program, with the generous support of the Ford Foundation, provides funding to bring scholars/activists to the UC Berkeley campus for periods of one to four months as Residential Fellows.
The Residential Fellowship Program enables individuals who have been deeply involved in practical and applied aspects of environmental politics/policy or resource management to engage in writing projects, to further their training and education, and to take advantage of the faculty, student, and bibliographic resources at UC Berkeley and other Bay Area campuses. Residential Fellows play an integral role in the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.
Institute of Environmental Studies
University of Zimbabwe, Harare
Alois Mandondo will be at UCB for the months of January and February, 2000.
Alois Mandondo is currently completing a doctoral degree at the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. His dissertation is an interdisciplinary study looking at local forms of control (in a broad and inclusive framework encompassing beliefs, social mores, taboos, and more explicit codified rules); how the controls relate to practice; and the implications on woodland ecology. The study was conducted in Nyamaropa Communal Land, Nyanga District, in Zimbabwe. He has a Masters of Science in Tropical Resource Ecology. The dissertation component of the M.Sc. was a socioeconomic-cum- ecological audit of eucalypt woodlots planted under the Rural Afforestation Project in Zimbabwe as part of efforts to halt deforestation in communal areas by boosting fuelwood supply. The Masters project outlined variable management among rural tree-growers with most farmers operating below the technical optimum because of resource constraints, with the overall performance of the trees being generally sub-optimal and far below technical projections expected of such species.
Alois is currently working as a Research Associate for the Centre for International Forestry Research, and as a Research Fellow and Project Coordinator of interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research project on microcatchment management and common property resources at the Institute of Environmental Studies (University of Zimbabwe). He has been a consultant for numerous environment and development projects, and has presented at numerous workshops and conferences. He has worked on community development projects, including serving as the chairman of a local development association and a community-based natural resource management project in his community. Alois has a modest list of published and unpublished articles. He is looking forward to sharing experiences in local local/community-based natural resource management and expects to benefit from theoretical/conceptual debates making their way through U.S. universities and environmental institutions with a rural focus.
Senior Research Fellow
Governance and Sustainable Development Programme
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)
Nairobi, Kenya
Godber Tumushabewill be at UCB for four months, from the beginning of January until the first week of May.
Godber Tumushabe has a masters law degree and has served as the President of Makerere University's Law Society in 1993. Since 1997, he has worked with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) conducting research on a broad range of issues focussing on environmental law and policy, including facilitating the centre's policy research and training programs for government officials in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Prior to working for ACTS, Godber worked with the Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries as an advisor on fisheries legislation, and a legal advisor for the ministry's environmental management programme. Godber has published numerous papers on environmental governance, environmental law, and policy and management of natural resource use conflicts. He has also worked as a consultant on several internationally funded projects on water management, environmental legislation, and hazardous waste management, and on developing guidelines and regulations for environmental impact assessment and hazardous waste management for Uganda. While at UCB, Godber plans to undertake further research focussing on the precautionary principle and its application in national legislation and practice in East Africa, the doctrine of public trust and its application under Uganda's 1995 constitution, and the emerging international bio-safety regime and its implications and concerns for African countries.
Lecturer, Sociology Department
University of Delhi, India
Current Research Project: "Water, Social Stratification, and the State"
Amita Baviskar will be at UCB from April 15 through July 15, 2000.
Amita Baviskar received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Cornell University in Development Sociology. Her research interests are in environmental sociology, the sociology of development, social movements, human rights issues, and the sociology of Indian tribal communities. She has written a book on environment and development entitled In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, reprinted 1999).
Amita has authored numerous articles on tribal politics, women and the environment, and human rights in India. She presented her paper, "Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and Environmental Struggles in Central India," at the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics 1998 Conference on "Violence and the Environment." In addition to her university teaching and research, Amita works with the People's Union for Civil Liberties in Delhi.
While a visiting fellow at UCB, Amita plans to further her study of urban environmental sociology and the ways in which discussions around the environment inform the study of urban contexts. To prepare for her upcoming empirical work on environmental conflict in Delhi, Amita plans to conduct preliminary research at UCB on urban constructions of environmental conflicts and the interface between urban planning and political economy.
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