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Moderating team, Overview Week 2
Thank you for your comments on Dr. Ashok Khosla’s statement: “Human Well-being and Sustainability” in Week Two.
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Bhukaneswor Dhakal, Nepal
Bhubaneswor Dhakal claims that conservation is undermining local livelihoods of the most vulnerable groups in Himalayan regions by reducing the amount of land that could be used to grow food. .
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Zahirul Islam, MarineLife Alliance, Bangladesh
Zahirul Islam argues that society should not blame poverty for resource management problems.
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Denis Marsha Kabuuka, Sustainable Livelihoods International (SLINT) - Uganda
Denis Kabuuka says that irrespective of what part of the world people are from, the bottom line for “good life” means being able to easily and sustainably access the basics of life – food, water, shelter, energy, health care, leisure, freedom and security.
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Urbelinda Ferrufino, ASEO,Bolivia
Urbelinda believes that the drive by people of the world to accumulate things is one of the challenges for sustainability.
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César Ipenza, APECO, Perú
César believes that projects done by native communities that have met with success should be repeated.
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Anna Kurtycz, Independent Consultant, Mexico
Anna Kurtycz emphasizes that the concept of sustainable development means different things to different people, and that it is important to develop definitions that are adapted to the needs to different communities.
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Dr. Anil Kumar, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India
Anil Kuma points out that sustainability has a vast temporal and spatial variability.
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Damase Ekodnzo, Ministry of Economy and Environment, Congo
Damase Ekodnzo points out that sustainable management of resources depends on how we provide for the daily needs of our families and humanity.
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María del Consuelo Carranza y Simón, Universidad La Salle, México
Maria agrees with Dr Khosla on the concept of reconstructing society to get to a point where society and nature can live together harmoniously.
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Ernesto Krahmer
Ernesto Krahmer emphasizes the importance of education to increase awareness of the consequences of our actions on the environment.
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Chris Maas Geesteranus, CEC member, The Netherlands
Chris makes the point that environmental education needs to be comprehensive focusing on the global world and expanding on many different sustainability themes.
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Suresh Kumar, Regional Research Laboratory Trivandrum, India
Suresh comments on the problem of mass consumption and the need to change consumer patterns of over consumption in order to achieve sustainability.
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José Sánchez, ITACAB, Convenio Andrés Bello, Perú
Responding to the moderator’s note, José Sánchez comments on the threats to megadiverse countries: Amazonia internationalization, patents, CO2 markets.
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Moderating team/Equipo moderador/Equipe de moderation (Text in English and Spanish)
We would like to draw your attention to the work of the Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP) in the context of this week’s theme: Human Wellbeing and Sustainability.
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Daisy Rodríguez Laredo, IIPFAADU - UMSA, Bolivia
Daisy Rodríguez stresses the interlinkages among all living beings inhabiting the earth. She mentions that healthy ecosystems have been kept by consuetudinary laws. For Daisy, “good life” is related to your vital experience in life.
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Dr Sohail Mahmood, Preston University, Pakistan
Eduardo has correctly mentioned social pressure as a factor in increasing knowledge of the issues and actions on sustainability. However, this is not easy.
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Vivienne Solis, Coopesolidar, Costa Rica
Viviente Solis shares with the participants her experience with a cooperative initiative called CoopeSolidar Rl.
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Ke Chung Kim, Penn State University, USA
Ke Chung Kim argues that as people in impoverished societies and regions struggle to meet daily life-support needs and improve their standard of living, efforts in advancing sustainability must focus on improvements in basic human rights.
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Ali Raza Rizvi, Environment Advisor, CARE International Sri Lankae
Ali Raza Rizvi says that for politicians well-being has to do with short-term needs, thus the term 'sustainability' is not in their dictionary because they are profit oriented during their own 'time on the stage'.
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David Taylor, author of Ginseng, the Divine Root, USA
David Taylor builds on comments from Nakul Chettri this week and the importance of communication highlighted in week one.
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Mourad AHMIM, Université Abderrahmane MIRA - Bejaia - Algérie
To Mourad Ahmim, our future rests on the effective actions we take in the field and in our daily lives.
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Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Institute, USA
Gary Gardner, Director of Research at Worldwatch Institute calls on us to remember that moderation produces the greatest advances for human beings.
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Eduardo Guerrero, Miembro Comisión Manejo de Ecosistemas-UICN, Colombia
Eduardo believes that social inequity is the greatest problem facing humanity.
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Moderating team/Equipo moderador/Equipe de moderation (Text in English and Spanish)
One of the objectives of the IUCN Discussion Forum is to invite innovative, collaborative, and inspiring solutions to sustainability issues of the 21st century.
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Great Escape Routes, India
A participant representing Great Escape Routes in India, emphasizes improvements in the educational infrastructure for addressing poverty of remote communities in ecologically fragile mountainous regions.
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Bryan Furnass, Naure and Society Forum, Australia
Bryan Furnass notes that in affluent "developed" countries there is little correlation between wealth and wellbeing.
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Ghulam Amin Beg, IUCN Pakistan
Ghulam Amin Beg argues that notions of sustainable development have been hijacked by those with vested interests in maintaining control of resources.
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Nakul Chettri, ICIMOD, Nepal
Nakul Chettri fears that we are trying to marry conservation with sustainable development for human wellbeing, but at the cost of environmental and natural resources.
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Rick Murphy, Gorilla Conservation/Education, Congo
Rick Murphy responds to Dr. Khosla’s questions and emphasizes working from the bottom up, education, inclusion of locals in conservation projects, honest communication, and IUCN’s potential role in pressuring governments that over-exploit natural resources.
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Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Nepal
Bhubaneswor Dhakal criticizes IUCN and other conservation and development agencies for aggravating poverty.
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José Sánchez Narváez, ITACAB Convenio Andrés Bello, Perú
José agrees with Ashok Koshla that sustainable development must be discussed, documented, and practiced.
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Dr. Mohan Singh, Podar College ,Nawalgarh (Rajasthan), India
Dr. Mohan Singh says that humankind’s greed and desire to dominate nature are challenges to sustainability.
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Dr. Muhammad Pervaz, Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan, Pakistan
Dr. Pervaz highlights that the concept of “human wellbeing” is relative to different communities who may have different needs.
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Suresh Kumar, Regional Research Laboratory Trivandrum, India
Suresh Kumar describes a small Indian community that lives in a sustainable and ethical way.
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Richard Cellarius, USA
Richard Cellarious emphasizes that environmental sustainability cannot be lost in the struggle to bring sustainable livelihoods to the world’s peoples.
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August 28 - September 1 2006 
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