Dear colleagues,


We have the pleasure to announce an international PhD master class on the 
topic:
“Environmental and Landscape Change: Addressing an Interdisciplinary 
Agenda”.


The course will be held in Scotland from 2-8 October 2006.


It offers opportunities for PhD students to be exposed to and actively 
discuss approaches from the
natural and social sciences to the humanities with a team of international 
experts in environmental
and landscape change. In recent decades the speed of environmental and 
landscape change has
accelerated and human induced change has reached higher impacts. Processes 
of change are
investigated by many different disciplines; however, due to the 
interrelatedness of natural and
human systems, environmental and landscape change need to be researched 
with an integrative
(interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary) effort. The course will 
specifically address the challenges
facing students who wish to integrate knowledge across disciplinary 
boundaries and between
knowledge communities. Techniques for overcoming practical and theoretical 
problems will be
presented by the course teachers and discussed in relation to the concrete 
projects of the
participants.


The PhD master class has three main objectives:


1) It will discuss latest research on environmental and landscape change 
and present techniques
for overcoming practical and theoretical problems in the concrete projects 
of the PhD students.
2) It will train skills on how to integrate knowledge across disciplinary 
boundaries and between
knowledge communities in order to address environmental and landscape 
change,
3) It will help to individually prepare and submit a paper for publication 
in an international peer-
reviewed publication.


PhD students from all countries that are involved in projects addressing 
environmental and
landscape change are invited to participate. The course will focus on PhD 
students who are at least
in their second year of study. The participation is limited to 25 
students. Interested PhD students
can now register for the course. Detailed information on the course and 
registration are available
at: http://www.intels.cc/phd.


With kind regards,


Bärbel Tress
Gunther Tress
David Miller


University of Aberdeen and Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, United 
Kingdom


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Bärbel Tress and Gunther Tress
Department of Geography & Environment
University of Aberdeen
Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen AB24 3UF
United Kingdom
Phone: (+44) 1224 272370 or (+44) 1224 273719
http://www.tress.cc
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