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Students publish group work results on IUCN NL website
A group of students that participated in the course Environmental Justice in Practice (WRM51806) taught by WRM in Period 2 worked 8 weeks intensively on an assignement for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) The Netherlands, analyzing two contested hydropower dams in Bolivia. The results were now published on the IUCN website.
As part of the course Environmental Justice in Practice, Britt van Engelen, Melle van Eijk, Holly Fieldsend, Roos Selman and Marielle Buis analyzed the contestations surrounding two hydropower dams currently being constructed in the Bolivian Amazon: El Bala and El Chepete. They scrutinized the devastating effects these dams would have for local communities and biodiversity, and critically analyzed the contradictory reasoning of the Bolivian Government for constructing these dams at all costs. A summary of the results of the group work were now published on the website of IUCN NL, which facilitated the group work:
https://www.iucn.nl/en/news/will-bolivia-prioritise-energy-over-indigenous-livelihoods-and-biodiversity/
The outcome of another group's work on contested dam construction on Peru's Marañón River can be found on Youtube: They have produced a beautiful video about the rockpaintings that will be lost if dam construction plans go through as envisaged by the government and involved companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idcu3_IRyJk
These are two examples of what 'Environmental Justice in Practice' and challenge-based learning at WRM can look like.