A couple of years ago I took a class on Participatory Action Research (PAR). At that time I was just interested in it as a research methodology and only heard about PAR being used in urban education settings. Lately, I have been wondering if PAR is used in other community settings (like environmental justice) and […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, social justice on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
In Malinowski’s ethnographic study of a coral garden population some miles from New Guinea he writes this about his field work:
“The principles of social organization, of legal constitution, of economics and religion have to be constructed by the observer out of a multitude of manifestations of varying significance and relevance. It is these invisible realities…which […]
Filed under: environmental planning, goals on February 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning in my Environmental Planning course at Columbia part of our discussion focused on the driving forces of environmental change and the positive and negative role of cities. The discussion touched on many economic and population statistics but a few ideas stuck out to me:
1::According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) “the combination of […]
Filed under: environmental planning on February 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
