Dear ECOLOGers, we are happy to announce the first in a series of hangout on air webinars for our Google+ community Biocultural Landscapes & Seascapes (BCLS). This first hangout is jointly organized by the Google+ communities BCLS (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110834970079444098643) and Environmental psychology EP (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109829943096634935392). The hangout will be recorded on air on youtube. If you want to participate or watch it live, please go to the last section of this email (section: further notes).
Topic/Title of the hangout: "How Community psychology can help building resilient communities and biocultural diversity in our landscapes and seascapes" When: August Sunday 18th 12am (UTC/GMT -6 hours: Nashville time) How to access: link will be provided before starting at this adress: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl41jqob7vsuvhjrlo89mqm4f4s Guests: Our guests will be specialists in community and environmental psychology Prof. Douglas Perkins and the clinical psychologist and PhD candidate in Community research and action Nikolay Mihaylov, both from Vanderbilt University, USA. On behalf of the "BCLS" and "EP" G+ communities, the discussion will attend Ethnobiologist Dr. Bernadette Montanari (from Kent Centre of Biocultural Diversity and moderator ofBCLS), the environmental/technology historian Jennifer B. Green (PhD candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology and moderator of BCLS), M.Sc Shaun Campbell (leader of the Biocultural conservation foundation: Save Raja Ampat, Hawaiʻi) and Georgi Stankov (M.A in community psychology, head of The Garden Association, Bulgaria, Moderator of BCLS and creator of EP). Georgi Stankov is the organizer and will be the conductor of the Hang out. Questions covered during the hangout (non exhaustively): - What is community psychology: development and basic principles Don't miss this event? - The interrelation between communities and their environment (ecosystem, biodiversity & community behaviours) - What is the link between environmental psychology, community governance and biocultural diversity in landscapes - The specifics of the bio-cultural communities and the impact of the environmental change on their life and culture. How Community psychology can support local communities to preserve their traditional, environment, identity, and lifestyle. - The biggest threats for small communities today? (Bernadette, Shaun, Jennifer) - Strategies about how communities could not just preserve, but develop and flourish their biocultural way of living - How environmental psychology can be applied toward mobilizing individuals and communities to take up actions to mitigate or adapt to global climate change? How do we motivate individuals and groups to confront the realities of climate change and prod them to move forward with various options and solutions? (Shaun Campbell) - How psychologists, ecologists, anthropologists, biologists, geographers, botanists and so on could work together? What could they do in a biocultural community? Some ideas? More details of questions here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B98VDE3vyUgrbGVjRWZUbXpuT0U/edit?usp=sharing Further notes: An hangout on air is an interactive webinar video conference enabling an unlimited number of viewer (live or recorded on youtube) + up to 10 simultaneous participants to go live and interact. If you intend to watch the hangout on air, or send questions, please, consider the time zones and Daylight Saving Time in some countries. Please contact Georgi Stankov for further information or invitation to participate to the hangout ([email protected]). If you dont have a Google+ account yet and want to participate to the hang out or receive further information on the webinar series, follow these 4 steps to join the BCLS community: 1. Create a Google+ account as explained in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIO3YvylEk 2. Click on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 3. Click on the red icon "join community" 4. Access the event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl41jqob7vsuvhjrlo89mqm4f4s Kind regards, the BCLS community manager Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt Office: +61 (0)7 3833 5680 [email protected] CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Ecoscience Precinct (GC-west), 41 Boggo road, Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia
