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Theme
on Culture and Conservation |
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topic of CEESP work gets its foundation in a collection
of articles gathered and compiled by CMWG members and
published in November 2004 as a special
issue of Policy Matters, the journal of CEESP. In
the editorial
of that issue, conservationists are invited to …take
history and culture seriously. |
News and upcoming events
Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy
American Museum of Natural History, April 2- 5, 2008
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation’s Thirteenth Annual Symposium is being organized with IUCN-The World Conservation Union/Theme on Culture and Conservation and Terralingua. It will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, April 2 through 5, 2008.
The past two decades have witnessed an upsurge of interest in the links between cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity. These various manifestations of the diversity of life are under threat by some of the same forces, yet, both in scientific inquiry and in the realms of policy and management, nature and culture are often treated as separate and unrelated entities. This stems in part from the mutual isolation that has traditionally characterized training and work in the natural and social sciences, leading to limited communication or collaboration among fields concerned with sustainability in both nature and culture. Another contributing factor has been a limited appreciation of the relevance of the vast variety of approaches to human-environment relationships that have developed across the world’s diverse cultures, often through close interactions with the natural environment and based on a perception of humans as part of, not separate from, nature. Fragmented approaches have not been successful in arresting the growing erosion of the world’s biodiversity and of the vast and diverse pool of cultural knowledge, practices, and languages developed by humanity. This is resulting in an ever less diverse and resilient world.
“Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity” will seek to bridge gaps, address challenges and opportunities, and help to forge a long-term multi-dimensional vision for sustaining biological and cultural diversity. In order to affect decision making, specific policy processes will be targeted and public outreach goals pursued.
http://symposia.cbc.amnh.org/biocultural/ |
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CEESP
programme 2005-2008
Summary
of themes, objectives and results of the CEESP
inter-sessional programme 2005-2008: Culture and conservation |
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| Papers
by CEESP/CMWG members on history, culture and conservation |
| Community-Based
Conservation, A Reflection on History, by Kenneth
MacDonald |
Pre-colonial
and colonial conservation practices in southern Africa
and their legacy today, by James C. Murombedzi
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| The
Myth of Wilderness in the Brazilian Rainforest, by
Antonio Carlos Diegues |
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| Projects
under Development |
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Terralingua's Report on the Progress of the Global Source
Book on Biocultural Diversity
www.terralingua.org/GSBBCD.htm
In
developing the Global Source Book on Biocultural Diversity,
supported by The Christensen Fund, Terralingua would
like to work in partnership with practitioners of biocultural
diversity projects and invite you participate in the
project. Please see the Call
for Contributions. |
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Relevant
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Community-Based
Natural Resource Management Network(CBNRM Net) www.cbnrm.net/index.html
Terralingua
www.terralingua.org
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