Morandi, Bertrand

Practicing interdisciplinarity: A review of the Second Austral Summer School on vulnerability of coral reefs heritage (EEA VulPaRe 2016) - 2019.


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In November 2016, the Second Austral Summer School “Vulnerability of coral reefs heritage” (EEA VulPaRe 2016) took place at Toliara (Madagascar). The school was funded and organised by IRD (French Research Institute for Development) and IHSM (Institute of Halieutics and Marine Science, University of Toliara), and proposed an interdisciplinary approach to the study of coral reefs. Environmental issues, different types of knowledge and valorisation of coral reefs were addressed by means of lectures, seminars, discussions and fieldwork. In this paper, the participants of EEA VulPaRe 2016 provide a critical feedback on this original interdisciplinary research training.