What’s at stake when communities have to share natural resources? What factors come into play as states compete for essential commodities that are in limited supply? As an Across Borders fellow, you’ll learn why questions like these should be viewed from many different perspectives and solved through interdisciplinary collaboration.
During the summer of 2012 we will investigate these questions and examine many technological and policy issues. We will make a case study of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, a water system shared by six US states, essential to agriculture, tourism, fishing, industry and basic human needs. We’ll explore how environmental, economic, social and political factors come together to influence the way policies are created and implemented.
What happens when we apply lessons learned in our study of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to cases such as the Jordan River Valley and the Red Sea? Our goal will be to take away lessons and ideas that can help improve natural resource management in the Middle East.
Selected participants from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories will enjoy a rare one-month educational experience in the United States, funded by the US Department of State and hosted by Dickinson College with the cooperation of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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