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Research & Training
Community Based Natural Resources Management Education
Click here to visit CBNRM's section of our website
Capacity Building in Tourism Education
Click here to visit the Tourism section of our website
Trans-Saharan Elections Project (TSEP)
Click here to visit the TSEP section of our website
Interdisciplinary Working Groups
The Center for African Studies, with funding from a USED National Resource Center grant and from the UF Office of Research, sponsors a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary working groups. These thematic-oriented groups provide a forum for faculty and graduate students to pursue research and funding initiatives that cut across standard academic units. Group activities have also included symposia, mini-conferences, invited lectures, and fieldwork/methodology workshops.
Africa Architecture Initiative - contact: Prof. Donna Cohen dcohen@ufl.edu
Cultural Heritage Management in Africa - contact: Prof. Steven Brandt sbrandt@ufl.edu
Development Working Group - Click to visit their website.
Governance Working Group - contact: Prof. Brenda Chalfin bchalfin@ufl.edu
Islam in Africa Working Group - contact: Prof. Susan O’Brien smobrien@ufl.edu
Natural Resource Management in Africa Working Group - contact: Prof. Brian Child bchild@ufl.edu
Urban Languages of Africa Working Group - contact: Prof. Fiona McLaughlin fmcl@ufl.edu
CAS & APP Consortium
Power and Politics in Africa is a five-year program of research and policy engagement launched in 2007. It brings together research centres and think-tanks in Africa, Europe and the USA with funding from the UK Department for International Development and the Advisory Board of Irish Aid. It is led by staff of the Overseas Development Institute, London. For more information on CAS participation, visit the project website.
UF Representatives Attend Wetlands Symposium in Botswana
UF PhD students and faculty affiliated with the National Science Foundation's Integrated Graduate Research, Education and Training Program in Water, Wetlands and Watersheds (AMw3-IGERT) presented their research at the international symposium "Wetlands in a Flood Pulsing Environment: Effects and Responses in Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning and Human Socety" in Maun, Botswana, the gateway to Southern Africa's storied Okavango Delta. For more information, click here.
AM:W3
Adaptive Management: Wise Use of Water, Wetlands & Watersheds is an NSF-funded IGERT program at the University of Florida. The IGERT program in Adaptive Management links four colleges, fifteen academic departments, and three research centers at the University of Florida with international wetlands research centers in Africa, Mexico, South America, Australia, and south Florida. Visit the program website here.
View the new film by IGERT grad students - Living with thirst: People and wildlife in southern Africa's variable climate.
Part One.
Part Two.
