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Land and life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform (LAND)
A novel 4Ps framework to investigate land–life dynamics, which, for the first time, will connect perspectives on human–nonhuman relations, property-making, land regimes and land–climate systems.
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Navigating Implementation Challenges in Mexico’s Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Programs
Mexico’s Selva Lacandona, one of the world’s most biodiverse rainforests, contains some of the largest and best-preserved remnants of lower montane rainforest in Mexico and Central America. For nearly 20 years, Natura y Ecosistemas has worked with local communities to conserve forests and sustain ecosystem services through Mexico’s national Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programme.…
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Indigenous land-based stewardship from local to global scales
This project aims to quantitatively explore the role of Indigenous Peoples in defending their territories in the face of rapidly expanding commodity and extractive frontiers. This will be done by: (1) assessing emerging threats to Indigenous land-based stewardship across scales, as well as the factors shaping success in Indigenous Peoples’ resistance movements against commodity and…
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FairNature
Practical guide to scaling Nature-based Solutions How can we promote a sustainable and just future while staying within planetary boundaries? Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are part of the answer – NbS aim to develop solutions that work with nature to support both society and the environment. Many pilot NbS exist, but few are implemented on a…
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Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities. A new online course
Climate change impacts vary among different social groups, who perceive and adapt to it in different ways. In this course, students will: a) understand the differentiated impacts that climate change has on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC), b) familiarize themselves with different responses to climate change impacts led by IPLC, and c) learn about…
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IEK-CHANGES
Assessing long-term changes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Ethnobiological research provides contradictory evidence of changes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) systems, with some studies suggesting processes of knowledge erosion and others emphasizing adaptability and resilience. The ecological impacts of such changes are also largely unknown, given that ethnobiologists generally lack diachronic or longitudinal data for the…
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CONDJUST
CONDJUST is an ERC funded project that works with conservation models and communities of practice to develop new theories and practices of socially just decolonised conservation.
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BIG-5
The BIG-5 project suggests that while direct experiences of nature may be declining, the internet and social media provide new ways to engage with and appreciate nature.
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Commit2Green
C2G applies an ecosystem services-based approach to decision-making, focusing on both the supply (existing environmental performance) and the demand (community-identified needs) of ecosystem services.
