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United to Protect the Environment: University of Redlands & Salzburg Kick Off a Summer Program on Environmental Policy |
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bridges vol. 13, April 2007 / Institutions & Organizations
View of Salzburg's Altstadt (Old City) and the famous Festung (fortress) on the Mönchsberg.
At a recent convocation speech at the University of Redlands, in California, former Vice President Al Gore spoke to a spellbound audience about the realities of Global Warming. With rapid-fire PowerPoint images from his recent book and documentary movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he graphically illustrated past and present images of retreating glaciers and melting ice sheets around the world, and the potential consequences of rapid climate change. One of the most striking images was of the Grossglockner Glacier in Hohe Tauern National Park.
The Franz Josefs Höhe, built in 1906 on what was then the edge of the Pasterze Glacier, now sits perched on the edge of the steep U-shaped valley that the glacier once carved. From the Franz Josefs Höhe Glacierhaus one sees what appear to be ants walking across the toe of the glacier, only to realize that those are people, with a roaring river of melt water pouring out from under them.
Students in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Redlands in Southern California are excitedly planning on coming to Austria to see the Grossglockner Glacier firsthand, and learning more about the many Austrian environmental programs that may represent ways to avoid the impending climate crisis.
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CSAS - Center for the Study of the Americas Opens Its Doors at the University of Graz |
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bridges vol. 13, April 2007 / Institutions & Organizations
Roberta Maierhofer (left), scientific director and Margret Purkarthofer (right), administrative director of the Center for the Studies of the Americas.
With the foundation of the Center for the Study of the Americas, the Karl-Franzens University Graz responds to an internationally rising interest in the changing role of the Americas.
Shifting from a US-centered towards an inter-American approach, the center will dedicate itself to the cross-linked examination of the American societies. The cultural areas North and Latin America will not be considered in isolation from each other. Instead, they will be subjected to an interdisciplinary and intercultural analysis that will explore historical, economic, and sociocultural contexts of this region, thus leading to a supraregional perspective.
CSAS understands itself as a research institution that encourages and promotes research projects that deal with these regions from the above-mentioned transnational point of view and will, in its initial phase, coordinate the following projects:
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