Fall 2022

The theme of the summer school was "Controversies in Ecology: Humans and Nature". Now and again, ecologists shake off any reputation as tree- hugging, always-getting-along-well, aligned-in-cause. Instead, they get involved in a good ‘ole disagreement, flinging barbs back and forth in the journals, and elsewhere. We will consider controversies that the address the biological and cultural relationships between people and their environments as well as classical ecological controversies. Students developed a deep understanding of a number of controversies, probed the role of controversies for diverse impacts of research. For further information see here (PDF, 180 KB).