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Summer course

The aim of the CML summer course is to provide 3rd year undergraduate students (and master students) the possibility to gain experience in working in an international and interdisciplinary team on a problem-oriented assignment in a developing country. The focus will be on learning practical fieldwork skills and practicing research methods and techniques.

This year's summer course is made possible by contributions of CML Leiden, Isabela State University, CVPED and The Asia Europe Foundation.

Theme 2007
Indigenous peoples' rights and protected area management:

In the global policy arena, there is much attention for the relation between biodiversity conservation and the rights of indigenous peoples. Granting land rights to indigenous communities is now seen as an integral part to protect nature in developing countries. But this strategy is also questioned: Who is indigenous and who’s not? Are indigenous communities indeed the environmental stewards as is often suggested? Is it fair to pose environmental restrictions on indigenous land claims? Or does the struggle of indigenous peoples distract environmentalists from the real problems? In short, how effective is the alliance between indigenous peoples and conservationists? And how does it work out in practice at the local level?
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DIARY

27 June - By Noortje van GEENEN - SCHRAUWEN

We got up really early and left towards the Sierra Madre hills. We sat on top of the jeepney and drove on a really bumpy road with a spectacular view. The jeepney was parked on a basketball court of a small village where our several hours long walk was started. It was quite exhausting because of the heat and the sun. We kept our speed and enjoyed the landscape around us. We saw grasslands, rice fields and at some distance we could still see some of the original forest. We arrived in the village of Balete with some bamboo huts. We talked to people, who kindly provided us with coffee, and we played volleyball with the youngsters. We saw carabaos pulling logs from the forest, but the only thing I felt was sympathy. After all the critical lectures about biodiversity, I saw these people were just making a living, not aware of the rules set by other people. When we left it started raining. I really loved it because it was refreshing. We had to cross some rivers and in the last one we swam, so good!
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SUMMERCOURSE 2006
XPLORE PHILIPPINES CULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

The summer of 2006 was the first time this Summer Course was organized. It was an initiative of the Cagayan Valley Programme on Environment and Development (CVPED), a joint undertaking of Isabela State University (Philippines) and Leiden University (Netherlands). The course was aimed to teach the student the process of designing, implementing and analyzing research and field studies. The title of this course was 'xplore the cultural and biological diversity of the Philippines'. During this course international students worked together with a filipino counterpart. The course was multidisciplinary and an intercultural event designed for international students of different disciplines and cultural background.
visit the 2006 website here.