ECOTURISMO - CHILE
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SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION RAD UDD 2014
EVOLUTION
CLIMATE CHANGE
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL
ETICHS
ENTRYWAY
TO THE
ANTARTICA
(CAPE HORN BIOSPHERE RESERVE)
(CAPE HORN BIOSPHERE RESERVE)
Avec la participation d’un groupe de scientifiques étrangers, nationaux et détachés professionnels, cette expédition il se veut comme une expérience directe de réflexion et concience des sujets proposés avec de conférences et activités intégrés au sens et objectif central du voyage.
EXPEDITION PRESENTERS
RICARDO ROZZI (PHD)
Chilean. Ecologist and philosopher, professor at North Texas University and Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG). He participated in the creation of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. He is the co-director of the Subantarctic Biocultural Conservation Program.
LUIS ABDÓN CIFUENTES (PHD)
Chilean, Civil Engineer, director at GreenLabUC. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Cimate Change (IPCC) that was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
JOHN GORDON
Cofounder of Intelligence Sqaured, the renowned international debate forum, Contagius, a digital media consultancy firm, and Globalista, a travel information service, among others.
RICHARD WRANGHAM (PHD)
Primatologist, professor at Harvard University. Recognized for his work on primates’ social system, the evolution of human aggression, and self- domestication.
ALVARO FISCHER
Chilean. Director and co-founder of Resiter, environmental technology solutions provider for mining, industrial and food companies. He is the President of the Science and Evolution Foundation and a member of the New York Academy of Science.
MAURICE VAN DE MAELE
For over 30 years he has carried out anthropological and archaeological research on the Yagan ethnicity and their last living representatives, who inhabit the Beagle Channel, as well as on the flora and fauna of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.
JORGE MONTENEGRO
Chilean. Commander of the Beagle Navy District and Maritime Governer. Expert navigator in the subantarctic and Antarctic zone. Commander on the Viel Icebreakaer and he manned logistical ships during multiple Antarctic campaigns, including the iceberg extraction for the Seville Expo in 1992.
Quelques sujets du programme:
John Gordon will speak about Disruptive Thinking—how technology is rapidly changing the way we live today. Every sector, including science, tourism, the media, and services, has been challenged to make changes, to incorporate multimedia and explore new answers.
Alvaro Fischer will discuss “The extreme south: Darwin and XXI Century Chile.” The importance Chile and the extreme south, in particular, bore for Darwin and his scientific development; the opportunity this represents for Chile, as a natural laboratory, and for special interests tourism.
Presentation on Omora Ethnobotanical Park by Ricardo Rozzi.
Presentation by Luis Cifuentes on “Climate Change: Consequences and challenges for Chile”. Make evident the climate change the planet, and Chile in particular, is suffering; understand the urgency; and explore the challenge we face as a society in order to implement mitigation
During this guided visit led by Ricardo Rozzi, we will explore the Los Bosques en Miniatura path and the Los Bosques Australes path. Once immersed in the forest, we shall engage in the activity “Thinking Like a Mountain” prepared by the Subantarctic Biocultural Conservation Program team.
Presentation by Richard Wrangham at the Lakutaia Hotel in which he will present “The Role of Fire in Human Evolution”. He will cover genetic-cultural co-evolution in which fire is the technology that facilitated the expansion of the human brain, taking us from Australopithecus to Homo Sapiens, as well as its impact in inter- gender relations.measures.
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