Across Borders: Managing Trans-Boundary Environmental Resources in the Middle East and the United States” is an international exchange program for Emerging Young Professionals (EYPs), sponsored by the US Department of State’s office of Citizen Exchanges, and delivered by Dickinson College in partnership with the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.
This highly selective, 4-week study-abroad program is designed to foster a substantive understanding of how environmental, economic, social and political factors converge to influence policy and practice in the management of trans-boundary environmental resources, with a particular focus on the Middle East and United States.
During the 2012 Across Borders program, selected participants from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories will enjoy a rare one-month educational experience in the United States, funded by the US Department of State and hosted by Dickinson College.
The participants during the summer of 2012 will be able to explore the case of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, a water system shared by the three US states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, essential to agriculture, tourism, fishing, industry and basic human needs. They will also explore how environmental, economic, social and political factors come together to influence the way policies are decided upon and implemented.
The participants will be able to consider if the lessons learned in their study of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed is applied to cases such as the Jordan River Valley and the Red Sea? The goal will be to take away lessons and ideas that can help improve resource management in the Middle East.
Last date for submission of applications is October 1, 2011
For more information and details, please visit this link.
