On April 12, Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend (IUCN: The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Switzerland) gave a presentation on "History, culture and governance the roots of conservation". For the presentation, click here.
Abstract:
Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend is a renowned specialist in politics of conservation and development. Her work focuses on governance of natural resources and protected areas, in particular with reference to history, equity and rights, indigenous peoples and local communities, participatory/collaborative/multi-stakeholder management; and culture-based entitlements and institutions dealing with common property resources.
During this seminar, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend will endeavor to stimulate the audience to think about and discuss the history of natural resource management and the ways in which people have “conserved” natural resources and maintained or even enriched biodiversity. Who actually did that? For what purposes? With what means? Were these processes related to culture and cultural diversity? How did these processes change through time? These are some of the questions that will be addressed.
The seminar will then enter into some details regarding the governance of protected areas and, in particular, the emerging IUCN classification of “governance types”. Part of this discussion will be a review of several concrete examples of Community Conserved Areas throughout the world and the ways in which a matrix that interplays categories of management and governance types can assist to develop a coherent system of protected areas.