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- Meeting review: UNU-IAS Symposium on Satoyama-Satoumi governance
- This week in review … World Bank operational policies must be in line with UNDRIP, Special Rapporteur says
- Meeting review: Arctic Preparatory Meeting for the WCIP 2014
- Meeting prep: CBA7
- This week in review … Article on Jeju's traditional medicine
- Resource: Article on Brazil's fishermen's conservation-related knowledge
Meeting review: UNU-IAS Symposium on Satoyama-Satoumi governance Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:36 AM PDT The New Commons: Governing Satoyama-Satoumi Landscapes for Human Well-Being This symposium focused on the challenges facing the governance of satoyama and satoumi landscapes. Prof. Tohru Nakashizuka (Tohoku University) focused on the significance of biodiversity and ecosystem services for human well-being, presenting examples to show that biodiversity is an integral part of our daily lives. He highlighted potential risks including the vulnerability of monoculture planted forests to pests and disease, and the potential for new strands of infectious diseases largely caused by intensification of husbandry practices. Prof. Koji Nakamura (Kanazawa University) introduced the results of the seminal Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA) and its cluster analysis of the Hokushinetsu region, which was conducted during 2007–2010 across Japan with the input of more than 200 stakeholders. He explained that to build on the results of the JSSA, and fill in existing gaps in understanding and data, plans were in progress to conduct a regional assessment of satoyama/satoumi and human well-being in Ishikawa. Prof. Anantha Kumar Duraiappah (United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) built on the first two keynote presentations by explaining how the JSSA helped to provide a strong scientific foundation for looking at satoyama and satoumi. He went into detail on the evolving concept of a new commons, and offered one working definition of the new commons as the spatial boundary that contains different ecosystem types that together produce a critical/minimum set of regulating services (water purification, soil erosion control, flood protection, etc.) to produce provisioning services, such as agricultural production. Three short talks were then delivered by local stakeholders. Read the release … |
This week in review … World Bank operational policies must be in line with UNDRIP, Special Rapporteur says Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:34 AM PDT World Bank operational policies must be in line with the United Nations Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples MANILA, PHILIPPINES: On 21 and 22 March 2013, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples participated in an "Expert Focus Group Seminar on Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples" and a "High Level Meeting on Engagement and Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples", hosted by the World Bank. The meetings, which took place in Manila, Philippines, were carried out in the context of the World Bank's review of its environmental and social safeguard policies, including its Operational Policy 4.10 on indigenous peoples, which apply to the Bank's lending for investments in specific projects.The Special Rapporteur emphasized that the revised policy should be consistent with rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He further urged that the policies that apply to all the Bank's financial and technical assistance, and not just its investment lending, be reviewed to ensure consistency with the Declaration. Read the release … Visit the website of the World Bank's safeguard policies consultation process … |
Meeting review: Arctic Preparatory Meeting for the WCIP 2014 Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:31 AM PDT Arctic Preparatory Meeting for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014 In preparation for the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, representatives of Inuit and Sami peoples met and issued the Nuuk Declaration. In the declaration, they urge for action-oriented outcomes of the World Conference. They reaffirm that traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources are integral parts of indigenous peoples' right to cultures, livelihoods and identities, and contribute to sustainable development in indigenous territories; emphasize that indigenous languages constitute core elements of their cultures; and call for establishing a voluntary international mechanism to receive and consider communications from indigenous peoples regarding violation of their rights to territories, lands and resources, and their right to self-determination, in order to achieve the UNDRIP's objectives. The declaration then addresses: indigenous peoples' right to self-determination; indigenous peoples' rights to territories, lands, waters, resources and traditional livelihoods; extractive industries; an optional protocol to UNDRIP, to be developed by the UNPFII, outlining a proposed structure and mandate for an international mechanism tasked with overseeing the implementation of indigenous peoples' rights to lands, waters, coastal seas and other resources, and indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, based on communications submitted by States or by indigenous peoples; further measures for the implementation of rights of indigenous peoples; culture, language, education and health; indigenous peoples' cross-border rights; and the UN system and international cooperation. Download the declaration [pdf] … Other preparatory meetings for the World Conference … |
Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:29 AM PDT 7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation Managed by IIED and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, the conference aims to provide the latest thinking from climate scientists, policy makers and practitioners on approaches for mainstreaming community-based adaptation into international, national and local planning and processes. Conference topics include: inclusive approaches: mainstreaming children, disability, gender and indigenous voices in CBA; CBA in urban areas; mainstreaming CBA into local government planning; monitoring and evaluation of CBA; mainstreaming of legal issues, migration, human rights and equity into CBA planning; and finance and other emerging challenges. Registration for virtual participation is open. Register as a virtual participant … Visit the CBA7 website … |
This week in review … Article on Jeju's traditional medicine Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:27 AM PDT Jeju traditional medicine – the healing biodiversity of the island JEJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA: The traditional healing system used by Jeju people has three branches: the mainland's traditional medicine, botanical as well as physical therapies such as acupuncture which were adapted from that of China; shamanism, traditionally a system of healing used to calm the mind and console the spirit; and the island's indigenous medicinal botany. Read the article … |
Resource: Article on Brazil's fishermen's conservation-related knowledge Posted: 03 Apr 2013 03:23 AM PDT Attitudes and local ecological knowledge of experts fishermen in relation to conservation and bycatch of sea turtles (reptilian: testudines), Southern Bahia, Brazil This study investigates fishermen's ecological knowledge about sea turtles and attitudes towards the conservation and bycatch in Ilhéus, Southern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers performed a series of semi-structured interviews with fishermen, consisting of questions relating to the fishermen's profile, structure and work equipment, the local ecological knowledge of fishermen about sea turtles and bycatch, a projective test, attitudes towards turtle conservation and beliefs and taboos regarding turtles. Correlation analyses were made between indicators of knowledge and attitude as well as the relationship between education level and knowledge and attitudes. Potential areas of spawning were reported and methods for identifying the animal, behavior and popular names were described by fishermen. Life history, habitat, specific and exogenous taboos, beliefs and the use of hawksbill turtle to make glasses and other handcrafts are also reported in the study. The researchers concluded that monitoring of spawning areas, preservation of traditional practices, strategies to moderate the use of fishery resources and the local ecological knowledge/attitudes can provide data to improve the conservation practices and management of sea turtles. Read the article … |
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