[TimorLesteStudies] Seminar cancelled: DEFORESTATION AND CATCHMENT RESPONSE IN TIMOR-LESTE

[Jennifer Drysdale]

My apologies. This seminar, scheduled for this week, has been 
cancelled. It will take place at some stage. I will advise when it is 
re-scheduled.


>>DEFORESTATION AND CATCHMENT RESPONSE IN TIMOR-LESTE: CONVERGENCE OF
>>COMMUNITY VIEWS AND SCIENCE, OR DELUSION?
>>
>>Narciso Almeida de Carvalho, MAFF; Francisco Inicio MAFF; Alexio
>>Leonita Amaral MAFF; Andrew McWilliam, ANU; Frank Tirendi AIMS;
>>Professor Robert Wasson. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Charles
>>Darwin University.
>>
>>The government of Timor Leste is concerned that deforestation and
>>upland erosion is negatively affecting the rivers and coastal
>>resources of this mountainous country.  Set within the bounds of this
>>upland-lowland debate, consultation with focus groups in four centres
>>within the catchment of the Laclo River resulted in a generally
>>consistent set of concerns and explanations from the local
>>people.  Many of these descriptions and explanations of change in
>>this catchment are consonant with scientific understanding from the
>>Western tradition.  Some scientific findings are not mirrored in the
>>knowledge of local people, and the spiritual account of landforms and
>>catastrophic floods is usually excluded from the scientific studies.
>>The comparison of local and scientific understanding in the Laclo
>>catchment will be analysed within the ongoing debate about whether or
>>not traditional / indigenous / local knowledge is different from
>>scientific / universal knowledge.
>>
>>
>> >Presenter: Professor Robert Wasson
>> >Time: 12pm - 1pm Thursday 23 March 2007
>> >Venue: Seminar Room, Level 6, WK Hancock Building (43)
>> >Biology Place (off Sullivans Creek Road)
>> >Australian National University
>
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>Jenny Drysdale
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