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Sustainable Development at AIT

Sustainable Development at AIT. ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION. School of Management (SOM). School of Engineering and Technology (SET). School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD). AIT CENTERS Vietnam Indonesia. AIT EXTENSION. SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT (SERD).

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Sustainable Development at AIT

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  1. Sustainable Development at AIT

  2. ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION School of Management (SOM) School of Engineering and Technology (SET) School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) AIT CENTERS Vietnam Indonesia .............. AIT EXTENSION

  3. SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT (SERD) Development Studies, Energy and Environmental Management, Resource Management Field of Studies Agricultural Systems and Engineering Pulp and Paper Technology Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management Gender and Development Studies Regional and Rural Development Planning Energy Natural Resources Management Urban Environmental Management Environmental Engineering and Management Interdisciplinary Programs Agribusiness Management Integrated Tropical Coastal Zone Management Integrated Watershed Development and Management Modeling Tools in Environmental Resources and Management Cleaner Production

  4. Sustainable Development @ AIT • Environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions of sustainable development are integral elements of AIT programs • Grounded research and outreach at local, regional, national and international levels • Active links in more than 15 countries in the region

  5. Challenges • How to better integrate sustainable development throughout the curricula, particularly into Management and Technology areas • Funding the programs These two issues are closely linked

  6. New Master program on Sustainable Development • 2-year master program • Minor program to integrate with other curricula • launch in Aug 2008 • Targeting policy makers, planners and actors in development • Providing: • in-depth knowledge on philosophical and practical aspects of sustainable development • skills for analysis and formulation of sustainable development policies and programs. • Developed in partnership with Roskilde University (Denmark)

  7. New Master program on Sustainable Development Core courses: • Sustainable Development Theories and Practices • Sustainable Development Economics • Sectoral Policies for Sustainable Development • Gender and Development • Analytical Methods for Sustainable Development

  8. New Master program in Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Mgt • Interdisciplinary program designed to accommodate students with a wide range of backgrounds • Two programs • 2-year master program • 1-year professional master program for professionals with significant experience • Launch Aug 2008 • Doctoral program will follow later

  9. New Master program in Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Mgt • Partners • Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) • ITC, Netherlands • Int’l Center for Urban Safety Eng, U of Tokyo • Coastal Resource Center, U of Rhode Island, USA • University of Washington, USA • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) • UNOCHA, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific • Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University

  10. Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Mgt Curriculum • Planning and Implementation for Emergency Mgt • Mitigation of Earthquake Disasters • Floods and Droughts • Tsunami Science and Preparedness • Climate Forecasting and Early Warning Systems • Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Risk Mgt • Community-Based Disaster Risk Mgt • Coastal Resiliency and Natural Disaster Preparedness • Human Conflicts and Humanitarian Emergency Mgt • Health and Ecological Risk Mgt

  11. Wetland Alliance: Building local capacity for sustainable wetlands management • brings together strengths of four institutions in: • education • training • conservation • development • research • focusing on wetlands in and around the Mekong region

  12. Focusing on … • The importance of aquatic resources • Key element in poor people’s livelihoods, but relatively little is known • Can help local agencies to better collect and interpret basic information on these resources • Find better ways of linking local data to national, regional and global databases

  13. ICT4D • ICT for Development (ICT4D) • Objective: • The effective and appropriate use of ICT for development • Multidisciplinary: • Infrastructure: communications, open source software, databases • Applications: knowledge management, e-learning, e-gov, e-health, e-commerce, all ICT components of development projects • Capacity Building: information and knowledge sharing, education • Policy: government strategies, digital divide

  14. ICT4D • Infrastructure in Developing Countries • communications networks, open source software, GIS • E.g. Digital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband OLSR (DUMBO) • Development Applications • e-government, disaster management, entrepreneurship • E.g. GIS for disasters, for bird flu tracking • Capacity Building • knowledge sharing, e-learning, training • E.g. technology transfer of commercializing freshwater aquaculture in NE Thailand (Wetlands Alliance), API advanced seminar on international environmental studies (UNU and other AP partners) • Policy • National government strategy on ICT • E.g. IT for rural planning in Thailand, poverty indicators for rural development in Cambodia

  15. UNEP Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development • Partnership between UNEP and Tongji University (Shanghai, China) • AIT is a member of the supporting Asia-Pacific Regional University Consortium • Other members are NTU Singapore; Griffiths University, Australia; University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Wollongong, Australia; Yale University, USA; and UNU, Tokyo • International Master’s Program in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development • AIT delivers courses and hosts students of the programme

  16. 2008 ASEAN/AIT Roundtable on the MDGs • The UN/NGO Section is at the origin of an international initiative promoting the development of pedagogic tools and materials for the teaching and training of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. • Roundtable meeting planned at AIT in March 2008 • Insert MDGs in academic training and teaching in the ASEAN region’s institutions • Involve the ASEAN institutions in the larger network of academia and NGOs promoting and spreading MDG training/teaching materials, through Centres of Excellence on MDGs

  17. 2008 ASEAN/AIT Roundtable on the MDGs • Creation of an AIT/ASEAN Centre of Excellence on MDGs • to promote, educate and train on MDG issues, throughout the region, by developing pedagogic modules, educational materials, and tools for MDG training in academic institutions, civil society, and NGOs operating in the field, in close cooperation with similar experiments by other Centres of Excellence on MDGs operating elsewhere in the world with UN-NGO-IRENE

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