Teaching

Prof. Dr. Philippe C. Forêt has taught graduate seminars on the transition from knowledge to action, on the Anthropocene, and in environmental history. His students have explored with him the changing relationship between environment and society: ambiguity, conflicts, solutions, power relations, individual attitudes, public policy, the management of resources, and the distribution of costs and benefits.

At the University of St. Gallen, Dr. Jovana Dikovic offers seminars that aim to investigate thoroughly sustainability discourse and how it affects the ethics and perceptions of relevant actors such as farmers, policymakers, environmentalists, consumers, and industrial producers. The seminars explain tense relationship between individual actors and their rationales and why do they often fail to contribute to concerted attaining of environmental goals.

At ETH Zürich, Dr. Philipp Aerni teaches the seminars 'Technology and Innovation for Development' (TI4D) and 'History of Food and Agriculture' (HFA). The lecture examine the evolution of agriculture and its impact on social structures, human health and the environment from an anthropological, a cultural, a political and a technological point of view.

At the University of Zurich, Dr. Philipp Aerni offers lectures that aim to familiarise students with different perspectives on sustainability at the local and global level and to critically examine different forms of sustainability rhetoric in the private sector, in civil society and in governmental organisations.