COOPMAR - cooperação transoceânica: políticas públicas e comunidade sociocultural ibero-americana

COOPMAR é uma rede de investigação e desenvolvimento financiada pelo CYTED (Programa Ibero-americano de Ciência e Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento) que promove formas ativas de diplomacia científica, visando potenciar sinergias existentes entre vários parceiros em torno de uma agenda de "mar e sociedade" para o desenvolvimento. CoopMar dá prioridade à circulação de conhecimento entre diferentes atores (universidades, museus, fundações, empresas, instituições públicas e sociedade em geral) e visa contribuir para uma sociedade do conhecimento, transnacional e transdisciplinar. Assume a troca cooperativa de valores e visões como um valor intangível que funciona como capital social capaz de beneficiar cidades portuárias - chave da região ibero latino americana.CoopMar is a research and development network funded by CYTED (Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development) that promotes active forms of scientific diplomacy, aiming at increasing existing synergies between various partners around a "sea and society" agenda for development. CoopMar enhances the circulation of knowledge among different actors (universities, museums, foundations, companies, public institutions and society in general) and aims to contribute to a transnational and transdisciplinary society of knowledge. It assumes the cooperative exchange of values and visions as an intangible value working as social capital capable of benefiting key port cities in the Ibero-Latin American region

Think globally, act locally : environmental history as global history in the first global age

The paper is oriented towards a reflection on the epistemological extension of world history. This discipline is currently opening up for new subjects and new foci of interest, with environmental history being one of them. The paper debates the interaction between the global and the local as one of the main issues of world history. It analyses the impacts of the interconnectivity of diverse regions as well as different geographical and cultural complexes, during the period between 1500 and 1800. Assuming that the sea in its economic, cultural and environmental dimensions contributed actively to world history, and is, in itself, a major factor of globalization, the paper intends to highlight interdependencies which fostered connections between the local and the global. It further submits to discussion which was the impact of an on-going globalization process, based on maritime dynamics, on the environment. Through an analysis centered on the impact of European overseas expansion, some environmental impacts will be analyzed. The paper aims at questioning environmental history as an emergent theme of world history, based on the historical experience of connecting worlds developed in the First Global Age (1500-1800)

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