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CEESP Youth Network: An agenda for action

2013-03-19

The CEESP Youth Network envisions an intergenerational community of leaders who learn and work together within and through IUCN, for a just, sustainable and peaceful world. The goals of the CEESP Youth Network for the next four years are to: 1) recognize and support emerging leaders in the structures, policies and activities of CEESP; 2) promote the involvement of youth in the development of CEESP's four prioritiy areas for 2013-2016; and 3) foster cross-commission collaboration and participation.

Culture & Conservation Priorities

2013-03-18

The Theme on Culture and Conservation is in the process of forming new Working Groups. Trisha Kehaulani Watson from Hawai'I has agreed to lead a working group on WCC Resolution 5.115 "Strengthening biocultural diversity and traditional ecological knowledge in the Asia-Pacific Island region".

Update from SULi – the CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group

2013-03-18

SULi has been busy in the last few months, with work focusing on establishing our new membership (with many new members from other parts of CEESP), planning work for the quadrennium, and taking forward work on small scale fisheries, indigenous knowledge, the economics of wildlife trade, and wild meat.

Degraded Lands is a Value-Loaded Term

2013-03-18

Degraded lands” is a term that is increasingly used to identify priority areas for restoration or development. Yet degradation is a complex term, laden with value judgments and perspectives. Areas that fall in this category have attracted negative labels such as waster lands, unoccupied lands and so forth and yet in the eyes of resources users what is considered degraded lands could be viewed in the positive as fallow land set aside to recover.

Developing the Human Dependency on Nature Framework – Update on the process

2013-03-18

The Human Dependency on Nature Framework is one of two new knowledge'baskets' included in the IUCN Global Programme for which CEESP has a lead role. The main goal of the IUCN Human Dependency on Nature Framework is to assess, document and communicate the role and importance of non-farmed natural/ wild resources for communities’ food and nutrition security.

Natural Resources Governance Framework

2013-03-18

The main aim of the IUCN Natural Resource Governance Framework is to provide an independent method to determine the strengths and weaknesses of natural resource decision-making and implementation. It will help decision-makers, whether citizens, economic institutions or political authorities to make better and fairer decisions that will underpin the sustainable management of natural resources and improve existing governance arrangements.

IUCN and UNESCO World Heritage Enhancement

2013-03-15

TILCEPA’s Chair participated in a workshop on Enhancing the World Heritage Programme, 17-21 February 2013. The event took place on Vilm Island in the Baltic Sea, hosted by the German Bundesamt für Naturschutz and IUCN’s World Heritage Division.

Message from the Chair - CEESP Newsletter 1 - 2013

2013-03-15

This is the first Newsletter of the Commission since the World Conservation Congress in Jeju. We’ve been very busy re-organising the work of the Commission, appointing Steering Committee members, re-appointing Commission members and grappling with the challenge of having a leading role in developing IUCN’s first social sciences flagship ‘knowledge baskets’, the Natural Resources Governance Framework (NRGF) and the Human Dependency on Nature Framework (HDNF).

CEESP Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge Advisory Committee established

2013-03-15

The CEESP Chair has established an Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge Advisory Committee within CEESP.

TEMTI: Economic Perspectives on Global Sustainability

2013-03-14

The CEESP Theme on Environment, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment (TEMTI) has started producing a new series of briefing papers on "Economic Perspectives on Global Sustainability." This series is designed to provide reliable information and rigorous analysis on critical issues that affect global sustainability.

Go4BioDiv International Youth Forum on marine and coastal life parallel to CBD-COP11 in India in October

2012-08-27

The International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv offers young dedicated people from all over the world the opportunity to share their on-the-ground conservation experience with their peers and the wider public. It enables them to participate in political discussions by engaging with international leaders during the Conferences of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COPs).

Update on Whakatane Mechanism

2012-08-20

The Whakatane Mechanism, an IUCN “One Programme” initiative in which CEESP is deeply involved, aims to ensure that conservation policy and practice respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, including those specified in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It is a tool for the implementation of IUCN Resolution 4.052 and other resolutions taken by the WCC to respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in conservation.

Report from Sustainable Use & Livelihoods (SULi)

2012-08-17

The Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group launched its first newsletter in May and its members have been involved in the following activities:

Pimachiowin Aki “The Land that Gives Life” Cultural Landscape Atlas

2012-08-17

Pimachiowin Aki: Land that Gives Life. Pimachiowin Aki Corporation, Winnipeg, MB.Davidson-Hunt, I.J., N. Deutsch, A.M. Miller. 2012.

Indigenous Communities, the Bioeconomy and Natural Resource Development

2012-08-17

In the summer issue of the Journal of Enterprising Communities (Volume 6, Issue 3) a set of papers presented at the CEESP Sharing Power Conference in Whakatane, New Zealand has been published. The special issue includes three cases from a Canadian research project along with other papers presented at the conference and considers Indigenous perspectives on product and service development for the bioeconomy within the broader context of Indigenous enterprises for natural resource development.

The Great Impostors (The Guardian)

2012-08-16

In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th August 2012

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, 'Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody'"(1).

COMMENTS from the CHAIR - CEESP | Issue 0812

2012-08-16

In a few weeks the world’s conservation community will converge in Jeju, South Korea for the World Conservation Congress. This is a rare opportunity for IUCN member organisations, the Secretariat and Commission members to meet together to report on achievements, elect a new President, Council and Commission Chairs and most importantly plan for the future. It’s hard to imagine that 4 years has already passed since I was elected Chair of CEESP at the WCC in 2009. What an amazing experience it has been!

CEESP Youth Network at Congress

2012-08-16

By: Catie Burlando, Elaine Hsiao, Daniela Barguil Gallardo and Md. Biozid Jessorey

CEESP Youth Network members are actively involved in the preparation of World Conservation Congress events in Jeju. In April we submitted a successful proposal to the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) thanks to the collaboration of Peggy Smith from Lakehead University and vice-Chair of CEESP North America and Caribbean Region (project coordinator) and the Canadian Committee for the IUCN. The proposal will cover a part of the costs associated with travel for 6 young professionals, including a member of the fishing community of Tárcoles in Costa Rica.

CEESP at the World Conservation Congress

2012-08-16

For those members who are attending the World Conference Congress in Jeju next month, we have established a special webpage to share the latest updates on the WCC and to highlight information of particular interest to CEESP.

TGER - Four Year Report to IUCN CEESP Chair and SC 2009-2012

2012-08-16

Prepared by TGER co-chairs, Dr. Janis Bristol Alcorn and Juanita Cabrera Lopez

The objective of the CEESP TGER (Thematic group on Governance, Equity and Rights) is improved governance and equity through a rights-based approach to conservation. TGER has maintained a steady number of around 330 members from over 40 countries over the past four years. By strengthening a positive, forward movement in ‘rights-based approaches to conservation’ (RBA), TGER members working together are helping IUCN to re-vision and reframe conservation as a more socially-just activity.