The class schedule consists in courses in GIS, Biostatistics, Applied Biogeography, and Integrated Land Use Management. The student projects vary from being reviews of rodent research across the country to being about the effectiveness of Integrated Land Use Planning across Namibia.
I was especially interested in learning about the program and its role in doing research across Namibia because it seems like so much of the biogeography research done in the country are foreign scientists going in, collecting data and then publishing their data from far overseas. It makes sense and should be that Namibia is also training their own researchers and scientists of tomorrow that can make the observations and collect the research of their own country.
During our time in Namibia I would love to reach out to the program and connect with a couple of students to see what they are learning/ how they view the environment of their homeland differently than we do.
- Chris LeBoa
http://www.unam.edu.na/faculty-of-science/biological-sciences/postgraduate-qualifications/biodiversity-management-research
Do other universities have programs like this? Are environmental studies and management more popular in some countries than others?
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