Summer Course 2010 Group Work DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A LOW CARBON WORLD : Preparing Professionals for Participatory Approaches in Planning and Implementing Climate Change Policies <Others: A preface for featured articles>

This course is the second summer course in the Global Environmental Leaders Education Program for Designing a Low Carbon Society (GEL's Program), launched in 2008. This course highlights forestry management and planning and implementation of climate policies for cities as cases for the potential application of participatory approaches (PAs) as an effective tool in coping with the challenges of climate change in developing countries. In this course, the participants are required to formulate country-specific guidelines on PAs for the Indonesian case of forestry management and climate change policies for cities by conducting group work. As an output of the group work, eight case studies are published as research notes in the special issue of IDEC Journal.