Building on diverse published CONVIVA papers and ongoing work, this policy brief focusses on what a convivial perspective on coexistence can contribute, and proposes a set of key questions to help build a convivial perspective on human-predator coexistence.
Also available in Portuguese.
This policy brief highlights how political economy shapes human-wildlife interactions, highlighting the importance of four key shifts:
It is also available in Portuguese here.
This policy brief explains what convivial conservation has to do with decolonising. It highlights the importance of challenging inequitable structures of knowledge and decision-making power that are rooted in colonisation and coloniality, using the example of Ubuntu and just conservation in Southern Africa.
It is also available in Portuguese here.
‘Despite decades of intensifying conservation efforts, Earth’s biodiversity is diminishing rapidly. Any hope of preserving what remains depends on transforming conservation policy and practice in innovative new directions’.
This policy brief provides an overview of convivial conservation as a novel approach to protecting biodiversity, highlighting some key principles proposed by convivial conservation: coexistence, diversity, decommodifications, decolonization, direct democracy, redistribution, and global connections.
It is also available in Portuguese here.
Periurban spaces are zones in transition at the urban fringes or close to expanding agglomerations. They are often considered as geographical patchwork spaces characterized by diverse functions (food and water security, provision of livelihoods, ecosystem services, etc.), a mosaic of land uses with rural and urban features, a multiplicity of stakeholders, sometimes with diverging interests, and overlapping governance structures.
Currently the nature of the periurban transformation in India results in an increasing vulnerability towards disasters.
Periurban spaces are zones in transition at the urban fringes or close to expanding agglomerations. They are often considered as geographical patchwork spaces characterized by diverse functions (food and water security, provision of livelihoods, ecosystem services, etc.), a mosaic of land uses with rural and urban features, a multiplicity of stakeholders, sometimes with diverging interests, and overlapping governance structures.
Several characteristics and processes of periurban spaces contribute to creating gendered outcomes.
Periurban spaces are zones in transition at the urban fringes or close to expanding agglomerations. They are often considered as geographical patchwork spaces characterized by diverse functions (food and water security, provision of livelihoods, ecosystem services, etc.), a mosaic of land uses with rural and urban features, a multiplicity of stakeholders, sometimes with diverging interests, and overlapping governance structures. These features create diverse opportunities, but also expose periurban spaces to deep transformations and make them challenging to govern.
Periurban water management is challenged by the diversity in these very specific zones in transition.
Periurban spaces are zones in transition at the urban fringes or close to expanding agglomerations. They are often considered as geographical patchwork spaces characterized by diverse functions (food and water security, provision of livelihoods, ecosystem services, etc.), a mosaic of land uses with rural and urban features, a multiplicity of stakeholders, sometimes with diverging interests, and overlapping governance structures.
These features create diverse opportunities, but also expose periurban spaces to deep transformations and make them challenging to govern.
India is currently being fundamentally transformed by urbanization. This transformation does not only affect the cities themselves: it also affects the periurban areas around cities. These areas are currently experiencing fundamental transformations that will shape India’s (urban) future.
The H2O-T2S project team has prepared a policy report recognizing the periurban challenges and transformative initiatives and pathways emerging from a range of sectors in this region. The policy brief combines four thematic policy briefs on four specific aspects of periurban transformations – water, infrastructure & governance, gender, and disaster risk, as well as three case studies on periurban transformation pathways.
These four sections were developed based on research, practices, and case studies presented at the conference on ‘Transforming Periurban Futures in India’ that took place on January 18-19, 2022.
This emerging knowledge from stakeholder engagements and field research finds that challenges induced by periurban transformations, while not easy to solve, offer immense opportunities. These dynamics must not only be seen negatively. They will result in adverse development if they take place in an unregulated manner, but the dynamics also allow for quickly steering development in a direction that allows for a transformation to sustainability. Essential in this regard is a solid database for planning, participatory planning processes, a robust institutional and financial framework and, most importantly, joint visions for sustainable development pathways.
These insights for policy are communicated online both through individual thematic policy briefs as well as a compiled Policy Report.
The effects of climate change – such as sea-level rise – are likely to provoke unprecedented movement of people over the coming decades.
It is estimated that between 350 and 630 million people will be affected by sea-level rise over the next 80 years, and many of these people may relocate in search of safety, resources and opportunities.
Movement on such a scale will undoubtedly have enormous humanitarian, environmental and geopolitical implications. Planned relocation or resettlement – also known as managed retreat – has been practised around the world for centuries but is attracting increased attention as a climate adaptation strategy. Research on cases of managed retreat in diverse locations around the world suggests that it could make a significant contribution to wide-scale, positive social transformation in the direction of sustainability, but there are also significant risks.
Download The transformative potential of managed retreat in the face of rising sea levels.
This Knowledge Brief is based on AR Siders, Idowu Ajibade, David Casagrande, Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol. 50, 2021, 272-280, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.007.
Image: Communities around Caño Martin Peña © Doel Vázquez