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Conservation & Sustainability Fellowships 
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June 2008
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Conservation & Sustainability Is for All Our Futures
Welcome to the first periodic update on the groundbreaking work now underway from Alcoa Foundation's Conservation & Sustainability Fellowship Program.

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Marrying Natural, Social Sciences across an Ancient Region
Operating in one of the United Nation's 25 biodiversity hot spots for conservation, Curtin University in Western Australia is marrying the natural sciences with the social sciences to focus on sustainability issues in a region facing significant changes and challenges.

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Exploring the Nexus between Environmental and Social
People are not divorced from the environment, and the work of a social scientist studying four communities within the ecologically diverse Gondwana region in Western Australia will contribute to better understanding people's behavior and attitudes toward their local environment and developing new methodologies to engage the community in meeting local sustainability challenges.

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World Conservation Union (IUCN) Builds Collaboration, Leadership
A decades-long advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to conservation and sustainability research, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) is bringing this experience as well as high hopes for increased collaboration and new leadership to the Conservation & Sustainability Fellowship Program.

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Tapping into Traditional Freshwater Management Practices
In Jamaica, an Alcoa Foundation Conservation & Sustainability Research fellow is examining community-based management of freshwater supplies among the Winward Maroon community.

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Worldwide Convening Connects Science and Sustainability
From November 29 to December 3, 2006, participants in the Conservation & Sustainability Fellowship Program will come together with representatives from business, government, and non-governmental organizations at the first Worldwide Convening in Brussels.

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