Graduate Program Available
Resilience and Adaptation Program
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program
University of Alaska Fairbanks
For further information, please go to:
http://www.rap.uaf.edu/
Application Target Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2005 (Applications will
continue to be considered after this date.)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks offers graduate training in the
Resilience and Adaptation program (RAP) to train scholars,
policy-makers, and managers to address issues of regional sustainability
in an integrated fashion. This program prepares students to address a
major challenge facing humanity - to sustain the desirable features of
Earth's ecosystems and society at a time of rapid changes in all of the
major forces that shape their structure and functioning. The program
provides training at the Ph.D. and Masters level. It integrates the
tools and approaches of ecology, economics, anthropology, climate
dynamics, philosophy, and community and regional development in a
systems framework to understand the functioning of regional systems. Our
underlying assumptions are:
- The major problems facing the world must be addressed at the regional
scale.
- No solution is tenable unless it is ecologically, economically, and
culturally sustainable.
The program emphasizes high-latitude ecosystems, where current
management issues require an application of the integrated understanding
of these disciplines. The goal is to educate a new generation of
scholars, policy makers, and managers to integrate the perspectives of
natural and social sciences in addressing both the basic understanding
of regional systems and the application of this understanding to
management issues. The program provides training to graduate students
from the University of Alaska and to graduate students at other
universities who wish to enroll for one year of intensive course work in
Resilience and Adaptation at the University of Alaska. Faculty
mentorship and internships in areas outside each student's parent
discipline are also provided.
The RAP program is associated with numerous research programs at the
University of Alaska and in state and federal agencies. These research
programs provide interdisciplinary research opportunities for RAP
students. The program emphasizes cross-cultural communication through
heavy involvement with the Alaskan Native American community and with
managers, businesses, and conservation groups. We offer NSF-funded
fellowships to Ph.D. candidates entering the program. Additional funding
is available to both Ph.D. and Masters students through participating
departments.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.rap.uaf.edu/
or contact:
F. Stuart Chapin, III
E-mail: terry.chapin [at] uaf.edu
The target date for reviewing applications to the RAP program is
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, although applications received after that date
will also receive consideration. Applications from ethnic minorities and
other under-represented groups are strongly encouraged.