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UMass-Boston Professor Helps Clean Boston Harbor

Barbara Shepard — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:48:31 +0000

This summer Anamarija Frankic, assistant professor of coastal ecosystem management at UMass-Boston and Director of the Green Boston Harbor Project, worked with local youth to clean up the ocean right next door. Bridging academia and practice, Anamarija teaches biomimicry and leads Boston youth in summer volunteer projects to clean the harbor and learn about the environment.

Anamarija has created opportunities to engage her students with real-life problems and concrete solutions. This summer, she worked on a boat at the UMass docks that pumped 1,500 gallons of sewage from pleasure boats in Marina Bay, planted clam seeds at Thompson Island and led 14 environmentally minded teenagers from Hyde Park on a canoe trip down the Neponset River.

Click here to see Anamarija’s work in a local Boston newspaper.

The Green Boston Harbor Project is an initiative housed at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Center is co-directed by Dr. Maria Ivanova and Dr. Craig Murphy.

Engaging Civil Society – Interview with Maria Ivanova

Sara Svensson — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:48:06 +0000

An interview with GEG Project Director Maria Ivanova on Engaging Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance was recently published on The New Security Beat, a blog maintained by the staff of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A momentum has started to build behind the idea of global environmental governance, much thanks to the involvement of various civil society groups and the dialogue between environmental policy makers and academia. Civil society have demanded a more substantial role in the design and execution of environmental policy, and there are signs that environmental leaders at the international level are listening. Read the full interview with Maria Ivanova on the future prospects for GEG, Rio+20 and how the environment-development dicothomy can be reframed through bold leadership and a mobilized civil society.

New Original Documentary: The Quest for Symphony

Admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:14:16 +0000

The Quest for Symphony outlines the past, present, and future of global environmental governance in an engaging fifteen minute documentary centered on interviews with key participants at the 25th United Nations Environment Programme’s Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in February 2009. Produced by Maria Ivanova and Joe Ageyo, The Quest for Symphony has been called â€œthe white paper on global environmental governance in images,â€ and is unique as a documentary focused solely on the challenges and successes of the GEG system and the options for reform. Watch it now:

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