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EPISODE 1

Koh Phangan

The two views of a place

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PANEL A

There are finally new tourists, whom I can show my tricks and maybe get some money. They consider this island as a holiday destination and enjoy. For me, this place is just a place to survive. Here I am trying to earn a little bit money to feed myself. My parents do not earn very much, so they task me every night to go the beach to entertain the people. Sometimes it seems that I bother them.However I have to…

Evoke should next deal for example with animal protection, CO2 emissions as well as technical innovations. However, I think that especially topics concerning children are of major importance. For this reason, Evoke should deal with education, forced marriages and child labor. Children are in fact creatures that are most helpless and can not help themselves. Therefore, they must be supported.

The network should try to build Evoke communities especially in regions that are affected by the…

I read the five secrets of Crisis Communication and my opinion is that all of them are important. However “How Do People React in a Pandemic?” and based on this “Managing Panic in a Pandemic” are especially important.

When people become aware of a risk, they overreact, but this is mostly a temporary short-term overreaction. This behavior is advantageous. The earlier people go through this first phase of overreaction the better it is. People who have gone through it come out on the…

I choose the study about the protection of forests in Uganda.

Two case studies are taken from Western Uganda, East Africa (Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Karuma Game reserve). They are about protected areas for biodiversity conservation.

Before the institutional changes the communities in and around the forests, traditionally depended on forest resources. Deforested and the heavily cultivated areas, charcoal and bamboo trade left mountain slopes vulnerable to soil erosion and…