CEESP, the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, is an inter-disciplinary network of professionals whose mission is to act as a source of advice on the environmental, economic, social and cultural factors that affect natural resources and biological diversity and to provide guidance and support towards effective policies and practices in environmental conservation and sustainable development.
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The Right to Responsibility - new book for peer review
We’re pleased to announce that Natural Justice and the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) have just released a new book for peer review, entitled: The Right to Responsibility: Resisting and Engaging Development, Conservation, and the Law in Asia. …
10 Jul 2013 | Article
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Community-based networks of Odisha
Community-based forest networks of India and Nepal have been suffering from serious neglect and left at disadvantage due to lack of legal recognition. A brief review of literature on community-based forest networks found that they lack certain attributes that are necessary to be considered as equal partners in the activities aimed at forest conservation and livelihood improvement. …
10 Jul 2013 | Article
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World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference
CEESP Members Nigel Crawhall and Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat attended the World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference. Marine Protected Areas Connections has produced a special edition on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples on MPAs which includes a report on the WIN Conference. …
10 Jul 2013 | Article
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Chair's Comments | Aroha Te Pareake Mead - July 2013
Earlier this year I was asked if I would want to have the Moa bird brought back from extinction. The question wasn’t random, it was posed at a workshop on Synthetic Biology & Conservation by someone who is part of a small group of scientists working on “de-extinction.” The workshop was an exploratory meeting designed to bring together the synthetic biology and conservation communities to discuss the implications that synthetic biology may have on the natural world and conservation. …
09 Jul 2013 | Article
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Adopted Alta Outcome Document
In June 10-12, indigenous representatives were invited by the Saami to Alta Norway to a preparatory meeting for the United Nations High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on Indigenous Peoples which is being held at the UN-HQ in September 2014. The Alta meeting finalised the Alta Outcome Document which is available in English and French.
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09 Jul 2013 | Article
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Latest Publications
Policy Matters 18 - Macroeconomics Policies, Livelihoods and Sustainability- available to download
Policy Matters 18: Macroeconomic Policies, Livelihoods and Sustainability …
11 Apr 2012 | Article
Directrices para la pesca sostenible de pequeña escala. Una versión en sencillo
Los representantes del Foro Mundial de Pueblos Pescadores (WFFP), el Foro Mundial de Pescadores y Trabajadores de la Pesca (WFF), el Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo al Pescador Artesanal (CIAPA) y el Comité Internacional de Planificación de las ONG/OSC para la Soberanía Alimentaria (CIP) han formado un grupo de coordinación de la sociedad civil con objeto de involucrarse en el proceso de desarrollo de directrices sobre la pesca artesanal de la FAO. …
15 Feb 2012 | Article
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‘Virtuous circles’ can help secure food supplies and address climate change
This new e-book from IIED and IUCN CEESP may be helpful in discussions on climate friendly and socially just food and farming futures. …
05 Dec 2011 | Downloads - publication
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