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THE 2000 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COASTAL MANAGEMENT!!

 

When: May 29 - June 23, 2000

Where: The Coastal Resources Center At the Coastal Institute
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882, USA

In cooperation with:
The Center for Environment Bureau for Global Programs
U.S. Agency for International Development

 

The URI Summer Institute in Coastal Management
The URI Summer Institute in Coastal Management is an intensive four-week program for resources management professionals offered at The University of Rhode Island. The Institute has been held biannually since 1992. Its purpose is to provide participants with the practical skills required to design, implement and learn from integrated coastal management programs. Participants learn how to formulate effective strategies for the management of coastal ecosystems and to apply integrated, interdisciplinary approaches to solving coastal problems. The course emphasizes the challenge of managing coastal environments in developing nations.

Course Content
The Summer Institute emphasizes issues of concern to coastal planners and managers, including:

  • Implications of ecological and socioeconomic trends
  • Coastal development activities such as mariculture, tourism, shorefront construction, and their impacts
  • Common coastal problems such as loss of habitats, coastal hazards, erosion, degradation of water quality, use conflicts, overfishing, and sea level change
  • Effective implementation strategies

Participants learn how to design strategic coastal management programs utilizing:

  • Sustainable development as the primary objective
  • Situation analysis to identify key issues
  • National level and special area planning
  • An array of regulatory and non-regulatory implementation techniques such as environmental impact assessment, permit programs, zoning, policy driven research, economic incentives, public works, public education and voluntary action
  • Techniques to build broad public support for programs
  • Co-management techniques that foster community empowerment and public-private sector partnerships

There are also short skills building sessions on topics such as how to design and deliver effective presentations; how to craft powerful messages about your coastal management program and communicate clearly and to the right people; how to deal with conflict; and how to use reflection and "outside-the-box" thinking to deal with issues and solve problems.

The Training Approach

The Summer Institute uses a training approach which builds upon each participant's experience and education, and encourages an exchange of ideas and transfer of knowledge between participants, technical experts and faculty. Training sessions include lectures, field exercises, simulations, case studies and group discussions integrated into intensive but varied daily schedules. Numerous examples of how issues are being addressed at the national and local levels in a variety of industrialized and developing countries from both temperate and tropical regions are used. Trainers also integrate cases from participants' countries into selected sessions.

Participants
This course is for practitioners and other professionals interested in integrated coastal management, including:

 

  • Professionals in natural resources, fisheries and environmental agencies
  • National, regional, district and municipal level planners
  • University lecturers and researchers
  • Staff from non-governmental environmental and community development organizations
  • Project managers in bilateral and multilateral development organizations and regional development banks
  • Professionals currently on leave from their jobs and studying at the graduate level in the U.S.

Participants typically have a wide variety of educational backgrounds in the natural and social sciences. Previous participants range in age from their early twenties to early sixties. Most have advanced degrees in addition to substantial professional experience.

Institute Faculty
Course instructors are drawn from the group of coastal management practitioners at the URI Coastal Resources Center. CRC associates from field programs in countries such as Ecuador, Africa, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines also act as course trainers. In addition, faculty from other URI departments, including Marine Affairs, Oceanography, Geology, Resource Economics, Ocean Engineering, Natural Resource Science, and Political Science participate in specialized sessions. Guest speakers from other universities, national organizations, state coastal management agencies, local town governments, and the private sector participate in selected sessions.

Academic Credit Option
The program may be taken for 3 graduate credits at an additional cost of US $75.

Financial Aid
It is the participant's responsibility to identify a sponsoring agency and obtain funding to cover the entire cost of the program including the program fee, travel, and personal expenses. Participants to previous programs have been funded totally or in part by bilateral or multi-lateral development organizations, their own agencies, private foundations, or are self-supported.

Housing
Housing is in on-campus accommodations (sorority house) in double occupancy rooms. A limited number of single occupancy rooms are also available at an additional charge of US $853.

Language of Instruction
The language of instruction is English.

For more information

Contact Lesley Squillante:
Tel: (401) 789-9555
Email: lsquill@gso.uri.edu
Fax: (401) 789-4670

Fees
Program Fee: US $4,900

The program fee covers all costs of the training program including meals, housing, field trips, reading materials, and special events such as a traditional New England style clambake. Fees do not include travel to and from Rhode Island. Participants should bring additional funds to cover personal expenses. Medical and accident insurance coverage is provided to all participants for the duration of the course, but does not include travel to and from the course.

The University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is one of the world's premier coastal and marine-related research and educational institutions. The breadth of coastal and marine-related programs and faculty extends to all colleges and a broad range of departments in the natural, social and applied sciences.

Coastal Resources Center
The Coastal Resources Center is dedicated to developing strategies for the effective management of coastal environments. Over its 25 year history, it has addressed a wide range of coastal management issues. CRC has coastal management experience in East Africa, Ecuador, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines, Central America and the United States. CRC programs combine policy assistance, research, public education and training, while encouraging information sharing, creation of practitioner networks, and international university partnerships. CRC has implemented dozens of training programs for audiences in the United States as well as for international coastal management professionals from 54 countries worldwide. CRC's mix of activities in the U.S. and internationally is based on the belief that coastal resource planners and managers from around the world face many similar challenges in managing their resources and have much to learn from each other.

Application Procedure

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Fill out this page or a copy, detach and mail or fax to:

Training
Coastal Resources Center
Narragansett Bay Campus
The University of Rhode Island
Narragansett, RI 02882 USA
Telephone: 401-874-6489
Fax: 401-789-4670 or 874-6920
Internet: lsquill@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu

 

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