Eco-eco, ethno-ecology and int. assessment seminar series - "Conservation for resilient and adaptive livelihoods"

Isabel Ruiz-Mallén (ICTA-UAB) 06/03/2013 from 1.30pm to 3pm (Q4/1003 - Escola d'Enginyeria building) This presentation introduces the EU-FP7 project "Assessing the effectiveness of community-based management strategies for biocultural diversity conservation," in which ICTA participates. The talk will introduce the background of the project and particularly discuss two recent outputs of the UAB team, namely a research paper and a policy brief. The former is based on a literature review that explores the role of community-based conservation and traditional ecological knowledge in enhancing or undermining communities' adaptive capacity and related socio-ecological systems' resilience in the face of changing economic, social, and environmental conditions. It highlights key factors that underlie adaptive capacity and resilience in self-regulated and co-managed conservation initiatives, whilst identifies research gaps and methodological challenges. The policy brief analyses the extent to which community-based conservation figures out in policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change in selected countries. Biographies Isabel is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB and she is currently working in the FP7 project COMBIOSERVE that analyses communities' adaptive capacity to environmental and socio-economic changes in selected sites in Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia. She holds an Environmental Science BSc at the UAB, a Master degree in Biological Sciences at UNAM in Mexico, and a PhD in Environmental Sciences at the UAB. Her research interests lie in the acquisition and transmission of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), the role of TEK in shaping rural people's adaptive capacity to cope with perturbations, local perceptions and attitudes towards conservation, local participation in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management, environmental education, public understanding of science, and science communication. She is also collaborating with the Observatory on Science Dissemination at the UAB (ODC). Esteve Corbera is a 'Ramón y Cajal' fellow at ICTA and the Department of Economics and Economic History, UAB. His research focuses on the governance of land-use management options for climate mitigation across scales, including the analysis of climate-policy and biodiversity conservation related instruments, such as carbon offset projects and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), and of large-scale agriculture investments for commodities and biofuels. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Peasant Studies, and a lead author in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. More info: http://estevecorbera.com