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ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology

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'ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical, analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis of: environmental conflicts; environmental movements; natural disasters; changes in the commons; and environmental justice and democracy. Research is based on a series of empirical-based investigations of a geographically and thematically diverse set of case-studies. The researchers of the network will collaborate to offer a theoretical and methodological framework for the empirical research and will synthesise the results of the individual cases in a series of publishable outputs. Research will be action and policy-oriented culminating in a series of Action and Policy Briefs targeting civil society organizations and policy-makers. Training includes an integrated curriculum of local and intensive network courses, summer schools, secondments and training through work. Researchers will be seconded to and recruited by one SME and two NGO partners of the project, building bridges between academia and practice. ENTITLE builds on an on-going collaboration in training between the participating institutions, manifested in a series of successful summer schools. It brings together some of the world´s top scholars in the field, and overcomes the fragmentation of existing political ecological research in Europe, offering a critical mass of research and training. It is integrated with a number of related FP7 research projects, and builds on a network of reliable and capable partners with considerable experience in EU project management. The researchers trained in the network will be employable in academia, public administration, NGOs and the consultancy sector'

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Political ecology (PE), the study of relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes, is a relatively newly emerging field. An EU initiative aims to put the interdisciplinary nature of PE on the European research map.

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To further theory and approaches, and to raise its standing as a field of study, the EU-funded http://www.politicalecology.eu (ENTITLE) (ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology) project is setting up a European network from the private sector and non-governmental organisations to perform research and receive training in PE.

The project supports the PE training of 18 doctoral and postdoctoral fellows from various disciplines and research backgrounds. The focus of the research is on commons, conflicts, democracy, disasters and social movements.

At the halfway point of the project, fellows attended two dedicated training courses on the skills and tools needed to carry out interdisciplinary PE research. They also took part in two summer schools. All researchers are currently on secondment in various civil society organisations.

By mid-2014, all researchers had begun their fieldwork drawing on commons, political economy or ecological economics. Career development between fellows and mentors is set to begin during the next phase of the project.

The impact of the project is already being felt as the consortium is intensifying its dissemination activities. Project members participated in 55 conferences, 35 seminars, 23 workshops and 11 public events. In addition, a series of papers, articles and chapters have been published in various journals, the mainstream press and books.

ENTITLE is also fostering international collaboration. It organised the first-ever Latin American conference on political ecology in 2014 and participated in the University of Kentucky's annual conference in the United States in 2013. This second event led to the creation of an international forum for discussion and exchange between political ecologists from various disciplines.

By pioneering the European PhD programme in PE, ENTITLE is helping to build a critical mass of research and training. It also aims at changing how the causes of environmental problems are viewed and how best to respond to them. Watch the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLVE69QZt5w (project video) here.