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Deadline for Registration is Friday, January 15, 2010.
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Conference Topics
Day 1 -
Changing Contexts
 The
driving forces influencing nature conservation and
sustainable development have shifted in recent decades. The
first session of the conference highlights and compares the
changing contexts in which African and Latin American
conservation and development occur, including:
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Economic globalization and
urbanization which has elevated the importance of
industry, trade and prices in shaping natural resource
exploitation, and increased worldwide vulnerability to
fiscal crises;
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The planet’s rapidly changing
environment, in which novel threats to ecosystems have
emerged while previously recognized ones have shifted
and/or intensified;
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New communication and
transportation modes that allow information, products,
diseases and species to move faster than ever
anticipated;
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Indigenous and other social
movements, supported by political alliances, that have
given greater voice to demands for human rights, land
ownership, resource management and food security.
Analyses of emerging trends in
environmental changes, resource demand and supply, poverty
and inequality, environmental governance and public
policies, complemented by historical perspectives, will
inform a discussion of how these larger drivers
differentially affect (and are affected by) conservation and
development at continental, regional, and local scales.
Speakers for this session include:
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Topic |
Speaker Name and Affiliation |
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Economic
globalization which has elevated the importance
of industry, trade and prices in shaping natural
resource exploitation, and increased worldwide
vulnerability to fiscal crises |
James Boyce,
Director, Program on Development, Peacebuilding,
and the Environment, Political Economy Research
Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gustavo Fonesca,
Team Leader, Natural Resources Global
Environment Facility |
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The planet’s
rapidly changing environment, in which novel
threats to ecosystems have emerged while
previously recognized ones have shifted or
intensified. |
Mercedes Bustamante,
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento
de Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília
Sheona Shackleton,
Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science,
Rhodes University |
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New communication
modes that allow information, products, diseases
and species to move faster than ever
anticipated. |
Marcela Uhart,
Associate Director for Latin America, Global
Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS)
Tom Miliken,
Director, TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa |
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Indigenous and
other social movements, supported by political
alliances, that have given greater voice to
demands for human rights, land ownership,
resource management and food security. |
Anthony Bebbington,
ESRC Professorial Research Fellow, IDPM, School
of Environment and Development, University of
Manchester
James Murombedzi, Senior Advisor on Land
Tenure and Property Rights to the Liberian
Government |
Day 2 - Changing
Strategies
 This
session will highlight innovative stakeholder responses to
address drivers and challenges identified during the
“Changing Contexts” session. Participants will present and
facilitate discussions on:
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Rights based approaches that focus
on decentralized institutional and political contexts of
natural resources management and sustainable
development;
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Market based approaches to
generate or strengthen market values and incentives for
sustainable natural resources use while improving human
well being;
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Multi-scale landscape management
that integrates protected areas, indigenous lands and
surrounding areas, rather than treating them as
disconnected islands of cultural and biological
diversity;
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Cross-sectoral partnerships and
networks that build on the respective strengths of
different stakeholders working together (Public-private
partnerships, multi-institutional partnerships, etc.);
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Emerging strategies in the wake of
the global economic crisis.
Specific examples may include cases
from wildlife markets (ivory ban, crocodile conservation),
fair trade initiatives, payment for environmental services
(including, but not limited to REDD and emerging carbon
markets), corporate social responsibility, governance
research and action, community-based conservation,
ecotourism, land tenure security, indigenous rights,
environmental legal recourse, private park management, among
others.
Speakers for this session include:
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Topic |
Speaker Name and Affiliation |
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Rights based
approaches that focus on decentralized
institutional and political contexts of natural
resources management and sustainable
development. |
Patricia Skyer, Team Leader
Conservation Partnerships for Sustainability in
Southern Africa
WWF Namibia
Mary
Allegretti,
Visiting professor, department of Anthropology,
University of Florida |
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Market based
approaches to generate or strengthen market
values and incentives for sustainable natural
resources use while improving human well-being. |
Fatima Cardoso,
Associate Researcher, Nucleo de Economia
Socioambiental, Universidade de São Paulo
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- Michael Conroy,
Principal, Colibri Consulting, Certification for
Sustainable Development and author of “Branded!
How the ‘Certification Revolution’ is
Transforming Global Corporations”
Maryanne Grieg-Gran,
Acting Programme Director, International
Institute for Environment and Development |
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Multi-scale
landscape management that integrates protected
areas, indigenous lands and surrounding areas,
rather than treating them as disconnected
islands of cultural and biological diversity. |
Allard Blom,
Managing Director , Endangered Spaces
Program, World Wildlife Fund
Daniel Nepstad,
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center |
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Cross-sectoral
partnerships and networks that build on the
respective strengths of different stakeholders
working together (Public-private partnerships,
multi-institutional partnerships, etc.) |
Constance Campbell,
Amazon Conservation
Coordinator, USAID
Theron Morgan
Brown, PhD Student, School of Natural
Resources and the Environment, University of
Florida
Jonathan Stacey,
Manager of Rio
Tinto - BirdLife programme Birdlife
International |
Day 3 - Training
and Capacity Building
 In this session,
invited speakers and participants will have the opportunity
to present and share experiences on educational initiatives
for training and building capacity among diverse actors
involved in conservation and development practice. The
initiatives will include examples from Latin America and
Africa, ranging from formal education programs for
University students to community-based education and
institutional learning. This session will provide a learning
opportunity for participants to compare and discuss
theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of
education for sustainability. We also foresee the opening of
opportunities for networking and collaboration between
community representatives, practitioners, students,
professors and other stakeholders represented in the
conference.
Speakers for this session
include:
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Topic |
Speaker Name and Affiliation |
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Initiatives to
support and build capacity of the next
generation of conservation and development
practitioners. |
Robyn Dalzen,
Executive Manager, Conservation Leadership
Program
Suzana Padua, President,
IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
(Institute for Ecological Research)
Gemma Burford,
Co-Director, Aang Serian UK/Global Initiative
for Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of Health
Francisco Rosado May,
Director, Universidad Intercultural Maya-
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Ana Luz
Porzecanski, Associate Director for Capacity
Development, Center for Biodiversity and
Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Marianne Schmink,
Director, Tropical Conservation and Development
Program, University of Florida |
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