I studied Environmental Sciences some 15 years ago. I was educated in interdisciplinary sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, economy, psychology, communication) and in the management of complex systems. It was at that time that the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology reacted to environmental catastrophes like Chernobyl or Schweizerhalle by establishing the interdisciplinary study of Environmental Sciences. The study itself was an innovation in the academic landscape and the students were co-designers of the study course.
In the last couple of years a trend seems to have developed towards the use of metaphors related to the environment. I want to introduce just four of these that I’ve encountered during the last few weeks.
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IT and Ecosystem – a new metaphor
Saturday, December 16th, 2006Bruno Oberle wird neuer BUWAL-Chef
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005Gratulation an Bruno für den Aufstieg (Der einzige interessante Artikel dazu: St. Galler Tagblatt)!
Mit Bruno habe ich einige meiner spannendsten Beratungsaufträge in Tunesien und Mali durchgeführt.
Mehr zum BUWAL.
Introducing EIA in Mali
Wednesday, December 31st, 1997
Easter 1997. I had started my trip out of Berlin early in the morning. In the late afternoon I arrived in Bamako, a totally different world. On my way from the airport to the hotel I got my first impression of Bamako, the capital of Mali.
Bamako looked more like a big market-town than the economic centre of a country. The taxi driver stopped his beaten-up Renault at one of the hundreds of mini-markets to buy one litre of fuel in an old water bottle. Taxi drivers only buy fuel one litre at a time in Mali, I noticed.
