Category: <span>Asia/Environment</span>

Following the Tea Horse Road: Trade, Tourism and Conservation in Yunnan Province

Monique Segarra, Assistant Professor Bard Center for Environmental Policy With the generous support of the Luce Foundation Asia and the Environment grant to Bard College, I spent two weeks this July in Yunnan Province, located in Southwestern China. Traveling with my colleague, Dr. Bruce Robertson, we designed a trip that …

Local Livelihoods and Environmental Conservation in Southern China

Bruce Robertson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College In July, 2016, I traveled to Yunnan Province, China with my colleague Monique Segarra with the goal of better understanding the socio-economic and political environment shaping the conservation of ecosystems and natural resources in the region.  Our central goal was to use …

Korea Observations: Bruce Robertson

My primary interest in going on this trip was to get a better understanding of the type of environmental issues that were occurring in a very different part of the world, and to contrast these with the challenges faces in North America and use these insights to inform perspectives in …

Grassroots Environmentalism in South Korea

Mr. Jeung Sub Park, 58, has been a fisherman and clammer on Garorim Bay on South Korea’s west coast all of his life. For the last six years, he has been leading a fight against so-called “clean energy”. A proposed tidal energy project at the mouth of the bay threatens …

Korea Observations: Gilles Mesrobian

As the faculty member responsible for addressing leadership development and study for Bard’s MBA in Sustainability I am especially interested in the cross­cultural and inter­generational implications of climate change and sustainable economic development in leadership practice. The conference and site visits hosted by Yonsei University and KFEM provided me with …

Korea Observations: Chris Annear

In addition to being greatly enjoyable and professionally edifying, this workshop and tour provided multiple teaching applications that will broaden my pedagogy to better include East Asian environmental issues. This program was an excellent mix of theoretical discussion and field-based learning. The Yonsei University conference provided a strong basis for …

Korea Observations: Ervin Kosta

The Bard-Yonsei Workshop and Tour was a rare opportunity in terms of a personal introduction to East Asia and several local environmental issues in global context. I had never been to East Asia and, despite sustained interest, did not have personal local experience with the region. The tour made this …

Korea Observations: Dr. Monique Segarra

The Power and Limits of Social Mobilization: Lessons from South Korea Social mobilization plays a powerful role in environmental politics for enabling marginalized groups or citizens who lack access to political influence to place their concerns onto the public agenda. In the United States, the broader environmental movement sparked in …