A one day conference about basic social and human sciences for sustainable development in Bogota, Colombia
Last 17 August, the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with the support of ECONOVA, organized a one day conference to showcase how human and social basic sciences can contribute to sustainable development.
The titles of the talks were as follow:
- Understanding forest degradation in Colombia/Latin America: Perspectives and challenges for sustainable development;
- The native cultures of the Amazon as ecologists-Notes for a history of ethnology in Colombia;
- Bioeconomy in the context of the oil&gas industry;
- The Amazonian indigenous chagra: knowledge and agro-biodiversity in the face of the challenges of climate change
- Environmental Education and the Dialogue of Knowledge
- Local and traditional knowledge of fish and the world of water in the Colombian Amazon
- Forests, territory and man in the biogeographic Chocó of Colombia
Watch the video from 47:36 (in Spanish)
