TRAINING

The workshops offered by AeHA are primarily practice-oriented: we aim for participants to experiment, observe, analyse, and apply practical tools in real contexts. The theoretical basis is presented in an accessible and concise way, as a reference framework each participant can explore in depth at their own pace and according to their interests.
Our main goal is that the training helps discover new perspectives in environmental management from the standpoint of environmental humanities, develop useful skills, and open learning paths that continue beyond each workshop.

Currently, we offer three 10-hour online workshops:

•Working with Environmental Conflicts: theoretical and methodological approaches from environmental humanities.
• Social Knowledge in Rural Areas: knowledge, practices, and relationships between people and the natural environment.
• History of Earth and Environmental Sciences: how scientific knowledge is constructed.

For more information, contact: info@humanidades ambientales

Workshop 1. WORKING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS

Objectives

This workshop offers a plural and interdisciplinary approach to environmental conflicts from the perspective of humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Participants will acquire basic conceptual tools to understand the diversity of approaches to environmental conflicts and work on case studies in simulated scenarios. The goal is to develop a critical and complex perspective to analyse environmental conflicts in their social, cultural, ecological, political, and territorial dimensions.

Provisional Programme

• What do we mean by environmental conflict?
• Typologies and approaches from social sciences and humanities as a multi-dimensional phenomenon
• Introduction to environmental mediation
• Stakeholders and challenges in protected areas and species: relationships between nature and society
• Spatial control, social mobilisation, and socialisation process

Workshop 2. SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE IN RURAL AREAS

Objectives

This workshop highlights collective, traditional, and contemporary knowledge present in Spanish rural areas and its role in understanding human–nature relationships. Participants will explore how this knowledge coexists, dialogues, or conflicts with knowledge guiding environmental management, and acquire tools to integrate local communities’ experiences, attitudes, and aspirations into socio-economic and environmental management initiatives. The course also invites reflection on processes that build shared territorial visions and strengthen territorial solidarity.

Provisional Programme

• Natures in plural: common goods and private property in rural areas
• Relations with protected natural areas
• Qualitative techniques and their integration into quantitative environmental studies
• Designing fieldwork from the perspective of environmental humanities
• Analysis of results in a Biosphere Reserve
• Workshop for exchange and collective discussion
• Active listening, empathy, and reflexivity: rethinking the role of expert knowledge

Workshop 3. HISTORY OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Objetives

This workshop provides a historical perspective on the construction of Earth and environmental sciences, from the Scientific Revolution to the consolidation of modern knowledge. It analyses the relationships between scientific knowledge, society, and territory, with a focus on rural areas, and explores the role of Earth sciences and environmental policies in territorial transformation, as well as historical mechanisms behind socio-environmental consensus and conflicts.

Provisional Programme

• Historical natures: from a created Earth to a measured Earth
• From cosmology to geoscience: the shift from an ordered world to a dynamic Earth
• From human history to natural history: the birth of geology and biology
• Hydrolgraphy, climatology, and their role in land management
• Common goods, property, and natural resources in environmental history
• The emergence of the concept of the environment and protected areas