FW: Berkes March 23: Putting People into the Picture
March 10, 2009 at 09:42AM -----Original Message-----
From: Stockholm Seminars [mailto:stockholmseminars@albaeco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:26 AM
To: Scott Edmondson
Subject: Berkes March 23: Putting People into the Picture
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THE STOCKHOLM SEMINARS:
FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND POLICY
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We have the great pleasure to invite you to the seminar:
Social-Ecological Systems and Conservation: Putting People Back into the
Picture
Prof. Fikret Berkes
Distinguished Professor of Natural Resources, University of Manitoba, and
Canada Research Chair in Community-based Resource Management
Monday, March 23, 2009, 11.0012.00
Please note the location: Room 312, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Kräftriket
2 B, Stockholm University
Download the seminar announcement as a pdf-file at:
http://albaeco.se/sv/images/stories/File/berkes0323-09.pdf
Please, post or circulate the announcement among your colleagues or put it
on the note board. The seminars are open for all interested and free of
charge. No registration needed.
Very welcome!
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ABSTRACT:
Most of the worlds biodiversity is not in protected areas but on lands used
by people. Therefore, biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of
social systems and their interactions with ecological systems. In involving
people in conservation, attention must be paid to political and social
objectives, such as livelihoods, and creating a local stake for
conservation. It also requires maintaining cultural connections to the land,
and at times restoring and cultivating new connections. Traditional
conservation and management systems, such as sacred groves and agro-forestry
systems in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in southern India, are
an integral part of conservation strategies. Experience with two new
indigenous-led protected areas in subarctic Canada (a World Heritage Site in
northern Ontario and a Biodiversity Reserve in northern Quebec) can be used
to illustrate how local and indigenous knowledge can be combined with
science, indigenous rights and livelihoods taken into account, and
local-level planning integrated into national and international conservation
planning.
ABOUT PROF. BERKES:
Prof. Berkes is interested in commons, social-ecological systems and
resilience. His work on the conditions under which the tragedy of the
commons may be avoided has led him to the study of community-based resource
management and conservation in northern Canada and internationally. His
recent publications include the books, Sacred Ecology (Routledge, 2008),
Adaptive Co-Management, with Armitage and Doubleday (University of British
Columbia Press, 2007), and Navigating Social-Ecological Systems, with
Colding and Folke (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
ABOUT THE STOCKHOLM SEMINARS: FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND POLICY
The Stockholm Seminars cover a broad range of perspectives on sustainability
issues and are focused on the need for a sound scientific basis for
sustainable development policy. The Stockholm Seminars is arranged by seven
interdisciplinary institutes to communicate scientific results on
sustainable development. The seminars are given at the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences and are visited by a large audience, including scientists,
students, media and policy makers in the public and private sector.
The lectures are free of charge and open for all interested. For more
information: contact Albaeco (08 - 674 74 00) or e-mail: info@albaeco.com,
or www.albaeco.com/sthsem
ARRANGED BY:
- The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences
- The Stockholm Resilience Centre
- The Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI
- The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, IGBP, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences
- The Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI
- The Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM, at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University
- The International Foundation for Science, IFS
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