Monday 24.August 2009
Dr. Bjorn Gunnarsson, Rector of RES, lectured in the International Summer School on Environmental & Resource Management in Ljubljana this summer.
The International Summer School on Environmental & Resource Management was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 20th of July to 2nd of August, 2009. Dr. Gunnarsson lectured in the Ljubljana
Summer School for the third time.
The School is offered through the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, University Graduate Programme in Environmental Protection. The Head of the Summer School is
ProfessorFranc Lobnik and the schools webpage. Eighteen students from Europe and Americas attended the two week long program.
Students with three of the professors of the International Summer School and additional staff members, in front of Medical Faculty Building of the University of Ljubljana. In the second row
from the top is Dr. Blum (BOKU, Austria), then Dr. Gunnarsson, and Dr. Lobnic (University of Ljubljana) all the way to the right (in blue shirt).
The 2009 International Summer School was divided into three lecture series and student workshops: Workshop 1 was on Environmental Management, Economy & Governance; Workshop 2 on Climate
Change & Low Carbon Society; and Workshop 3 on Sustainable Land Use & Resource Management All together twelve lecturers taught in the program.
Dr. Gunnarsson lectured in Workshop 2 on the topic of Environmental Security: Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic. He emphasized both climate change impacts on future extraction of fossil
fuels in the Arctic, and increased shipping in the Arctic Ocean due to melting of sea ice and opening of new trade routes between the North-Atlantic and North-Pacific Oceans. Dr. Gunnarsson also
participated in a field excursion to the Koper – Dragonja Valley, held on Saturday July 25th.
Field excursion to Koper – Dragonja Valley. Dr. Wiggering (ZALF, Germany), second from the right, explaining land use planning in the Dragonja Valley to Summer School
students.
Professor Franc Lobnic, the Head of the Summer School, in good company (Prof. Martina Pintar of the University of Ljubljana to the far right).
For information about the next International Summer School in Ljubljana in July 2010, please contact Prof. Franc Lobnik.
