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Gravel shortage, recycled concrete - 6 students explored the different views of stakeholders and conflicts over those resources in Switzerland. Their approach was appreciated, by stakeholders and also by students from other disciplines.

http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/news-fordev/2018/07/about-the-future-of-gravel-and-concrete.html

About the future of gravel and concrete Despite being famous for its mountainous landscape, Switzerland is suffering from a shortage of gravel – the main component of concrete. Estimations show that it will run short of mineable gravel resources within the next 40 years.

How our board games can help people realize the consequences of their actions before they happen https://forestsnews.cifor.org/54802/oil-palm-landscapes-playing-keeps?fnl=en

Oil palm landscapes: Playing for keeps - CIFOR Forests News How a simple board game could lead to more sustainable palm oil

ForDev is not the only one using role-playing games. Ulrich Creative Simulations (UCS) organize workshops, game sessions and coachings on the use of serious games.

They run the New Commons Game, simulating challenges to sustainable management in fisheries - well known to most of USYS students at ETH from their first days of studies.

Have a look here for more information about UCS and how they develop games together with business http://ucs.ch/index.html

UCS Ulrich Creative Simulations

This is a new collaboration, with the colleagues from ISTP. Now wondering what's next...

Playing to discover of ? An eye opener, but also a frustrating way of , and at the same time surprisingly helpful. The ISTP students describe their experience with the block course on negotiations by For Dev Read more: http://ow.ly/Rkz330haPuf

New opportunities for master and bachelor thesis

http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/education/bachelor-and-master-thesis-topics.html

Bachelor and Master thesis topics

Today at 13:00 (Rome time): Webinar on the Landscape Approach - jump in and engage in the discussion with experts and practitioners!

http://events.globallandscapesforum.org/digital-summits/what-is-the-landscape-approach/

Digital Summit on What is the Landscape Approach? In anticipation of the forthcoming Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn, a digital summit holds a webinar on the Landscape Approach.

How to define a landscape approach; how to best apply the approach in practice? – register for the webinar and engage in the discussion with Claude Garcia, other experts and a broader community on the Landscape Approach

http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/news-fordev/2017/11/digital-summit-on-what-is-the-landscape-approach-.html

Digital Summit on What is the Landscape Approach? In anticipation of the forthcoming Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn, a digital summit holds a webinar on the Landscape Approach.

Launching Phase 2 - Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes.

What drives changes in the llanos?

Spotlight on the Alarela project: International conference on natural wetlands of Madagascar. 12-14 October 2016
The resilience of natural wetlands would be at the heart of the conference organized by the Alarela project at the École Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques - Université d’Antananarivo.

Yesterday, NADEL invited us to open the semester of their Master of Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation. Great sessions on participatory resource management, using the newest version of the ReHab Game. http://www.nadel.ethz.ch/

NADEL 2016 19 new photos added to shared album

We are developping two different models, one focusing on landscape change and the other on the supply chain. I wonder if they will mix up well...

Bachelor students in environmental sciences at ETH took the political discourse about the wolf in Switzerland as a case study and developed their own role-playing games.
The assignment was given by WWF Switzerland who was looking for a negotiation game about the wolf in Switzerland to use for their training about wolf and bear for hiking guides in the canton of Grison.
During the WWF training, the game was successfully played by 18 hiking guides, subdivided in two groups. In the lively debate, the players exchanged their arguments and tried to find allies in financing the respective measures. Over the course of the game, the realized the importance of listening to each other’s arguments and collaborating to find satisfactory solutions. The participants had a lot of fun and the game was the starting point of discussions far into the night.
WWF was very content with the game. As a further step, WWF is considering to use it as a teaching material for teenage students. This is a good example for how topics that are relevant in the practice can be tackled in a theoretical context and how the results can be brought back to practice – strengthening the exchange between science and practice.
http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/news-fordev/2016/07/conflict-resolution-in-wildlife-conservation.html

Another form of outreach

Un film documentaire en malgache permettant de représenter les divers aspects typiques de la zone, mais surtout de laisser s'exprimer les paysans de l'Alaotra. Ces gens qui dépendent principalement des ressouces naturelles contenues dans le lac, les marais, les paysages ouverts et les forêts selon leur localisation. Ils font face à des défis incontournables suite aux changements (d'ordre climatique, social, économique, écologique, culturel, ...) qui semblent lents mais assez conséquents à long terme. Des formes d'adaptation sont déjà développées par le système socio-écologique qui font leur existence actuelle. Même si il supporte le choc, sa capacité de résilience est visiblement assez limitée vue sa vulnérabilité manifestée par les inombrables problèmes profondément ressentis par la population locale.
Si aucune mesure n'est prise à temps et de manière appropriée, la zone va être en perpétuel état de dégradation. Pourtant, l'Alaotra est très connue pour sa production rizicole et piscicole dans tout Madagascar.
Refléxion ouverte ...

Many thanks to Bea Johnson for sharing her enthusiasm, ideas, passion and inspiring many of us to embark on the "zero waste" journey

ForDev and ETH Sustainability are thrilled to welcome Bea Johnson at ETH Zurich on June 6th at 5pm !

Register now: https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/nachhaltigkeit.html/

Ready to embark on my 3rd international speaking tour! I'll be spreading the good news about my lifestyle through 8 countries in the next few weeks! I am excited and I hope to meet some of you along the way! For cities and dates, check out the blog ( zerowastehome.com ) or my event FB page. ----- Je suis prete a demarrer ma 3eme tournee internationale de conferences. Je partagerai les bienfaits de mon mode de vie a travers 8 pays dans les semaines qui suivent. J'espere rencontrer certains d'entre vous le long du chemin! Mon programme au complet sur le blog ( zerowastehome.com ) ou l'onglet evenementiel de ma page Facebook. ---- http://ift.tt/1qNrji7

Zero Waste Lifestyle talk with Béa Johnson

Registration now open:
https://form.jotformeu.com/60522579595365

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/uBRy5iQJWGizgDJQVqm0BN/Coffee-for-conservationhow-one-womans-quest-is-saving-spec.html

Coffee for conservation—how one woman’s quest is saving species So, how do you make sure that your favourite beverage is responsibly sourced?

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/383641/icode/

FAO - News Article: Freebee: How bees can help raise food security of 2 billion smallholders at... 19 February 2016, Rome -- What do cucumbers, mustard, almonds and alfalfa have in common? On the surface very little. But there is one thing they share: they all owe their existence to the service of bees.

We tried a little contest while in Shipstern. Chris Kettle, some of students, and Joel, CSFI...Joel won with this shot. :-)

Great Friday guys!! As you can see in the image below not everyone is asleep at night. We are glad to see that the wildlife in our reserve is alive and well, just like this cute ocelot. The image was taken by one of our new camera traps a couple of days ago in Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve. Enjoy!

Portrait of Arnaud de Grave

Arnaud De Grave

With Caspar Bijlevld and Chris Kettle, and the students of ETH, in the mangroves of Belize.

I like the subtitle: If only it were that simple... good work Charlotte!

Beekeeping to prevent the pollination problem? Wild bees pollinate our crops, and in doing so produce much of the food on which the world depends. But the destruction of their natural habitats, mostly due to agricultural spread and intensification, means we are losing these valuable insects. Promoting beekeeping to compensate for the loss of wil…

New internship opportunity on ecological compensation in the Congo Basin for the CoForSet projecthttp://www.fordev.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/usys/ites/fordev-dam/Pdf/Biotope_OffreStageM2_CoForSet2016.pdf

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New master thesis opportunity in India on bee genetics
http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/education/bachelor-and-master-thesis-topics/master-thesis-opportunity-in-india.html

Master thesis opportunity in India

As if one was not enough! Gazull, Laurent from CIRAD, Montpelllier meets Ghazoul, Jaboury from ETH Zurich.

Laurent came all the way to give a lecture on the role of Fuelwood in driving forest dynamics in Africa. One of the outcomes: a panel in the forthcoming ATBC 2016 Conference..
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A Documentary Film - coming in 2016
This is a film about the PEOPLE living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the CHANGES in their social and natural environments.
This is also a film about the BANDRO, the Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), that can survive only in the marshes surrounding the lake, and that is facing extinction due to these changes.
This is also a film about RESEARCH; on how to tackle complexity and grasp change. The AlaReLa (Alaotra Resilience Landscape) project aims to understand the various livelihood strategies of people like farmers or fishers, who use the lake, the marshes, and the land surrounding the lake to produce food and charcoal and other sources of energy. The scientist's goal in the AlaReLa project is to engage with and inform decision makers responsible for the governance of such complex socio-ecological systems as the Alaotra.
Follow us to some of Madagascar's hidden places - far away from the touristic centers - to find out what can happen when derivates of our modern times seep slowly into traditional ways of living. What can be done to strike a balance between yesterday and tomorrow; between conservation and development?

A film by Julia Dordel & Guido Tölke
Director of photography: Guido Tölke
Produced by Dorcon Film
Executive producer: Patrick Waeber, Madagascar Wildlife Conservation; ETH Zurich
Supported by Indian Ocean e-Ink, nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Alaotra Resilience Landscape project (AlaReLa) & Madagascar Wildlife Conservation (MWC)

For more information see:
Dorcon Film: www.dorconfilm.com
AlaReLa project: http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/research/re...
Madagascar Wildlife Conservation: http://www.madagascar-wildlife-conser...
©2016 Dorcon Film, all rights reserved

TEASER: ALAOTRA - Endangered Treasures of Madagascar A Documentary Film - coming in 2016 This is a film about the PEOPLE living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the CHANGES in their social and nat...

Coffee and landscape have a friendly relationship at the GLF2015 http://www.landscapes.org/glf-2015/