If you love nature, this is an opportunity you will love. Take the decision and live with unique experience. Take a three weeks course in Environmental History and Nature in Brazil.

Make the best of this opportunity. At the end of the course, you would be able to:

• Understand the role of nature and society issues in shaping Brazilian History.
• Have acquired basic knowledge about the different Brazilian ecosystems.
• Understand the basic characteristics about Brazilian Savannas and Rainforest, and recognize the differences between them.
• Understand how different natural and demographic factors may shape the History of forest devastation.
• Understand the concept of sustainable development and the different ways through which it may be accomplished.
• Understand the processes that may drive development policies to cause environmental conflicts and how these conflicts may be dealt with both from preventive and restorative perspectives.
• Understand the interactions between Health and Environment in tropical settings.
• Understand the specific Health issues affecting riverside populations living near the riverside in the Amazon.
• Understand the culture of the population living near the riverside in the Amazon.

During your course, you will do field studies and visit highlights of the Brazilian Savanna and the Amazon River, such as the Rio Quente Resort in Caldas Novas in the Brazilian Savanna, Historical Routes in the city of Manaus and a Journey by river to visit Amazonian indigenous and riverside communities and to a field site with an ongoing conservation project.

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