About the Program
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The Program on Development, Governance and Nature responds to the need for a shared forum for the many scholars and students on campus engaged in development studies in which nature plays a role. More specifically, we identify the Program as focused upon economic, social and political processes through which knowledge and technical capabilities relevant to development are created, legitimated and disputed.
These aspects of development inevitably depend on intersections of expertise beyond any disciplinary or college boundaries, but require frames and knowledge from natural resources to politics, biology to economics, science studies to ethics -- and much in between.
Development responds to and alters natural process and resources; development policy depends on knowledge of nature, This knowledge is typically incomplete or contested and usually both. Social scientists and natural scientists who work at these intersections benefit enormously from the activities of an ongoing community -- to discuss their work, train their students and provide for external stimulation from areas of the world or substantive knowledge that add value to Cornell’s base.
This program is administered under the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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