This curriculum is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate media students at Indian media training organizations and universities, and for the media professionals. This curriculum is designed to be a standalone course to be delivered over a semester or an intensive 3-day training for the media professionals. Because of its modular structure and participatory training methods, it provides enough flexibility and can be customized for delivery as a module within an existing course at training Institutes or as a dedicated session at a Media training workshop as well. The curriculum is also suitable for a field training expedition for the media professionals. The curriculum is intended to develop a strong knowledge base about coastal and marine biodiversity and appreciation for conservation among media professionals
The overall framework is based on a competencies-based curriculum with strong emphasis on hands-on exercises using participatory methods of training and learning. The training material is developed by a competent team of experts drawn from forest, fisheries and media sectors, bringing in a truly cross sector perspective to the whole process of capacity development. Competencies-based curriculum is a way of approaching professional training that places primary emphasis on facilitating the participants in further developing their competencies, which are required to enable them in performing their jobs more efficiently and effectively. It aims at preparing people more effectively for real workplaces.
Media Professionals
By the end of the course, the participants are able to:
Senior-level undergraduate media students
By the end of the course, the participants are able to:
Entry-level undergraduate media students
By the end of the course, the participants are able to:
Module 1: Introduction to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
This module provides the basic introduction to the concept of biodiversity and the interconnectedness of human beings and biodiversity. Concept of ecosystems services is the central focus of this module. The module provides details of different facets of the concept of biodiversity and different examples of coastal and marine habitats and species. The module also touches upon the concept of conservation shortcuts such as keystone species, knowledge of which is a must for media processionals.
Module 2: Setting the context: Why are the coasts important?
This is the most comprehensive and time-intensive module of the course, and it sets the foundation of the issues of coastal and marine conservation for media. This module places the topic of coastal and marine biodiversity conservation into the overall development context, and looks into the interrelationship of conservation and economic development, the positive benefits that coastal and marine biodiversity brings to human societies via ecosystem services, the challenges in balancing conservation with the economic development, and a detailed understanding of the threats that the coastal and marine ecosystems are facing.
Module 3: Coastal and Marine Protected Areas
This module provides the much needed information on marine protected areas (MPAs), the differences between MPAs and terrestrial protected areas, the categories and types of MPA, as well as their management systems and also an overview of the element of management effectiveness. The module covers the key issues of fisheries and indigenous communities in the context of MPAs. Apart from providing information on different types of MPAs in India and their location, the module also elaborates on the benefits of and challenges for MPAs.
Module 4: Governance, law and policy framework for coastal and marine biodiversity
This module gives an outline and a brief history of the diverse governance, legal and policy frameworks for managing coastal and marine ecosystems, which have been presented in two sections. The first section deals with global conventions and guidelines that provide a framework to the maritime countries to draft national policies and legislation for conservation and management of coastal and marine habitats and species. The second section provides an overview of the major policies, law, rules and guidelines in India.
Module 5: Why do we not hear more about the coast?
This module will help media students and professionals in reflecting on the way media communicate coastal and marine conservation issues. Conservation is not in the media priority and therefore issues related to coastal and marine conservation come into news rarely and only when an event happens at the coast. The module will help the media professionals and students to understand how to integrate coastal and marine conservation issues into the mainstream media stories and products. The module is built around case studies, examples and information on successful cases where media has played a proactive and strong role in supporting coastal and marine biodiversity conservation.
This module provides the conceptual background and introduction of mainstreaming biodiversity. To ensure that biodiversity-related issues and concerns become a part of the larger development planning process in the country, there is a need to incorporate it into policies, strategies and action plan. There is also a need to use science-based tools to understand the impact that projects can have on the environment and ensure that spatial planning incorporates measures for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity. This module provides the basic concepts and examples of such tools knowledge of which is useful for the media professionals while they work on related stories.
This module provides important information on the two most pressing issues of our times: climate change and natural disasters- their basic science, vulnerability and impacts, management and risk reduction options. The issues are accompanied by relevant case studies for better clarity. The module also focuses on a very important aspect of climate change and disaster management, i.e. their interlinkages with coastal and marine biodiversity and livelihoods of local communities. The module facilitates participants in exploring key synergies and trade-offs and possible way out to avoid the trade-offs.
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