Private Land Conservation: A Primer, and The Role of Agriculture
This short course will be broken into sections; the first four days will provide an intensive look at Land Trust’s: history, structure, legal mandates, funding, strategies, purchase and easement agreements, monitoring and enforcement, community engagement. Students will emerge with a thorough understanding of the role of land trusts in land conservation.
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With local food, sustainability, and a growing awareness of the impact of climate change on our growing systems and communities, week two of this course looks at how land trusts are assisting in farmland conservation. Participants will evaluate key factors, other than traditional land preservation, that are important to ensure farmland protection for working farms and farmers to secure access to quality farmland now and into the future. Through real-life examples and with guest speakers from different land trusts, farmland conservation policy groups, and economic development and affordable access-to-land organizations, participants will better understand the nuances and different approaches to Northeast and New York State farmland conservation. NOTE: The second week requires direct experience with conservation easements, or completion of the first week.
Professor: Judy Anderson. Judy is a consultant and trainer who works with land trust across the Northeast, on climate change issues, internal system and board/governance development, leadership development, fundraising strategies, communication and outreach, cooperative visioning and program implementation, and land protection and stewardship details and transactions. She helps organizations develop programs to connect people and communities with the land, including “conservation closer to home”.
Energy and Environment in Asia
This short course will introduce students to the environmental challenges faced in East Asia: especially, China, but with reference to the development experience in Korea and Japan. Through climate change, but also through greater pressure on natural resources, bringing an additional billion people in Asia out of poverty will have profound global impacts.
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Beginning with basics on geography and culture, the course will critically examine policies being pursued by Asian governments to attempt to achieve sustainable development. The course will conclude with a three-day, regional conference, including keynote addresses by experts from the three countries, in which student teams will be active participants. One Bard student participating in this short course will have the opportunity to pursue a funded internship in Korea.
Professors: Monique Segarra and Eban Goodstein
Monique Segarra Assistant Professor of Policy, Bard CEP
B.A., Brandeis University in Political Science; M.I.A., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Ph.D., Comparative Politics and Latin America, Columbia University. Areas of interest include sustainable development, international environmental politics and the increasingly contentious politics surrounding natural resource management in Latin America. Current research focuses on the politics of water reform in Oaxaca, Mexico and comparative analysis of human and environmental rights movements challenging mineral and oil policies of states and multinational corporations in Ecuador, Mexico and Chile. She has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and edited and contributed to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America. She has a forthcoming chapter on human rights and the environment in Latin America in Human Rights: Challenges of the Past/Challenges for the Future. In addition to research and teaching, she has worked with a range of international development and research institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council. Member, BCEP Graduate Committee.
Eban Goodstein Director Bard CEP and Bard MBA
B.A. (Geology) Williams College; Ph.D. (Economics) University of Michigan. Goodstein directs two national educational initiatives on global warming: C2C and The National Climate Seminar. In recent years, he has coordinated climate education events at over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2010) now in its sixth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England: 2007); and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and Environment, Workplace and Employment, and is on the Steering Committee of Economics for Equity & the Environment. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Follett Corporation, and is on the advisory committee for Chevrolet's Clean Energy Initiative.
