COVID-19: Ecothropic is closely monitoring COVID-19 considerations and will do everything possible to ensure the safety of participants and local partners. We will work closely with registered participants to adaptively manage program dates, logistics, and location as the current global health crisis and its repercussions necessitate. Ecothropic is also offering a very flexible policy to allow you to register and change plans if the pandemic affects your ability to join us. Please contact us with any questions or for further details.

Overview

We are inviting up to ten Sustainability, Environmental Studies, and Geography professors to critically explore sustainable strategies for adaptation to climate and global change during the 2021 Ecothropic Cross-Poly Conference which will be hosted in La Paz, Baja California Sur, México, January 3-9, 2021.

This professional development opportunity is an intimate and interdisciplinary traveling conference, allowing participants to share their research, and be part of a sustained conversation and reflection on the nexus between research and practice .

Each day participants will partake in a program of excursions and site-visits. Each evening, two participants will present their research.

Daytime topics and activities will include:

• Social-ecological systems and adaptive capacity

• Global/local food-systems

• Access to clean water and watershed management

• Agroecology and food sovereignty in the context of climate change

• Politics and indigenous rights

• Social-political capital and women’s cooperatives

• Toniná: Natural resource management and the pre-hispanic Maya

As an organization, Ecothropic works on the ground with community-based climate adaptation and natural resource management.   Complementing this work, we have run accredited field studies to Chiapas for the last five years as a way of connecting students directly with global realities and front-line solutions. Similarly, we offer study abroad opportunities to Cuba with new offerings to India, Chile, Jordan, Puerto Rico, and Oaxaca, Mexico.   

Building on our experience and the itinerary we offer to university students, this professional development opportunity is designed to get professors back into the field to re-contextualize and reinvigorate their research and teaching, while creating the opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue and relationship building.

Details:

Dates: January 3-9, 2021

Registration and travel fee: $2800 (includes all in-country transportation, accommodation*, meals, water, local experts, activities and excursions, translation, guest lecturers, and Ecothropic facilitators) Airfare, travel insurance (recommended), additional activities, additional meals, and additional beverages are NOT included. *Based on double occupancy. Private rooms are available for a supplemental fee.

To Apply:

Please submit a 200-400 word Abstract and Letter of Intention to brittbasel@ecothropic.com.  

Deadlines:

Space is limited. Please send your Abstract and your Letter of Intention at your earliest convenience. If you are unsure of how COVID-19 may impact your ability to join us, but would like to reserve a space, please apply now and we will work together to accommodate COVID-19-related changes.