Past Programs

The Center mounts international summer programs for fellowship students funded by the National Science Foundation. Two have been organized thus far. And a third is scheduled for 2003. The La Frontera Program, conducted in association with El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) focused on the sustainability problems facing the California-Mexico border zone. The particular research assignment dealt with Ecoparque, a community sewage park, and its impact on reducing erosion and landslide risk through revegetation facilitated through the park's greywater output systems. A second summer program was fielded in France, linking students to scientists at the Universite de Marne-la-Vallee and their research efforts. Students also spent time at Germany's Center for Technology Assessment, highly renowned center developing Agenda 21 implementation plans for the Baden-Wurttemberg region. A third international program, in East Asia, was mounted in 2004, based in Hong Kong, and this program allows students to travel in mainland China to research environmental issues in the Pearl River Delta zone, and the emergence of nonprofit environmental organizations and their role in civil society and the evolution of sustainability policies.

• Environmental Challenges in La Frontera Summer
• Study Program in France
• Emergent Role of Environmental NGO's in China