Je suis en thèse

At the threshold of the second year of my PhD journey, I realise Je suis en thèse and I mean it. One of the evidences is that I am not only questioning emerging thoughts and synapses between them but also the process of thinking.

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What makes a landscape a cultural landscape?

The rice terraces of Philippine Cordilleras, the Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere, the Champagne Hillsides with their houses and cellars. What do they have in common? They are cultural landscapes revealing much about our evolving relationship with the natural world.

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Pedagogy of Cooperation in a Volatile World

If the Greeks had six forms of love- eros, philia, ludus, agape, pragma and philautia -, the Buddhists, four sublime states of mind - metta, karuna, mudita and upekkha -, how many forms of cooperation does the volatile world need today? And how to cultivate them?

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Women’s role in political glocal leadership is growing

The nature of policy is change. Change from whose point of view? The picture around the world is one of increasing participation of women in setting the policy agenda. In the European Parliament, the percentage of women members has increased from 16.6 per cent in 1979 to 36.1 per cent in 2019.

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Transformative Learning for a Living Planet

Facilitating a rich exchange between Findhorn Ecovillage striving to demonstrate regenerative, place-based values & practices for human settlements to thrive and Ilha das Couves nested in the Atlantic Forest biome suffering the pressure of unbridled tourism while aspiring to become a centre for regenerative design.

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Seeds for the Argonauts of the Pantanal

In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland with a high concentration of rare or endangered species, weeks of raging fires driven by climate change and policy contempt have decimated wildlife populations and territories where Indigenous communities live.

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