Abstract

ENTITLE is an EU-funded Initial Training Network under the Marie Curie actions of FP7, coordinated by ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (www.eco2.bcn) and with the collaboration of 8 Universities, 2 NGOs and 1 SME. ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical, analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis of: environmental conflicts; environmental movements; natural disasters; the commons; and environmental justice and democracy. Research is based on a series of empirically-based investigations of a geographically and thematically diverse set of case-studies. Research will be action and policy-oriented culminating in a series of Action and Policy Briefs targeting civil society organizations and policy-makers.

Training of the network's fellows includes an integrated curriculum of local and intensive network courses, summer schools, secondments and training through work. Fellows will be seconded or recruited by one SME and two NGO partners of the project, building bridges between political-ecological research and practice. ENTITLE builds on an on-going collaboration in training between the participating institutions, manifested in a series of successful summer schools (www.environmentalconflicts.com). It brings together some of the world top scholars in political ecology, and overcomes the fragmentation of existing political ecological research in Europe, offering a critical mass of research and training. The researchers trained in the network will be employable in academia, public administration and NGOs.
 

Funding Body | Agência de Investigação Europeia
 

Partners | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) - Coord. | Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) - Universidade de Coimbra | The University of Manchester | University of Lund | Humboldt -  University zu Berlin (UBER) | Harokopion Univ. of Athens (HUA) | University of Bogazici (BU) | University of Chile | Serveis de Suport a la Gestio, S.L. Environment and Management (ENT) | Centro di Documentazione sui Conflitti Ambientali (CDCA) | EcoPeace- Friends of the earth middle East (FoEME)

Researchers: Boaventura de Sousa Santos | José Castro Caldas | Laura Centemeri | Marco Armiero | Rita Serra | Stefania Barca (coord)
 

Keywords | political ecology, environmental conflicts, commons, (un)natural disasters, environmental justice movements