Event

The Challenges of Sustainability and Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Lessons From the Nariva Swamp.

Across the country, citizens are confronting proposals for aluminium smelters, water desalination plants, unregulated quarries and steel mills, and the possible risks of heavy industrialisation. In this context, where the nation is questioning the balance between sustainability and development in government policy, The Centre for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies is pleased to announce a special showing of its documentary videos, The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland – Issues of Gender and Sustainability and Living With the Nariva Swamp: Participatory Research with Kernahan and Cascadoux.

The Nariva Swamp: A Contested Wetland – Issues of Gender and Sustainability examines the competing demands of conservation and development. Further, it explores the significance of gender and social analysis to environmental research and policy. Living With the Nariva Swamp: Participatory Research with Kernahan and Cascadoux focuses on using ethnographic research and qualitative techniques when exploring the relationship between women, men, boys and girls, and the ecosystem in which they live. Both contribute to understanding the ways we can research, document and learn more about the relationship between humans and natural ecosystems.

This event will take place on Thursday 24 April 2008, from 10am to 12pm in the Centre for Language Learning at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine.

This events is free but videos will be on sale for TT$200 (for local participants) and US$50 (for international participants) each.

 

Please confirm your participation by contacting  or Mrs. Glenda Ottley at 663-1334 ext. 2533, 3548, 3549 or emailing  by April 18, 2008.