Restoring ecosystems under stress through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities: Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study geography/environmental sciences at university.
Session time: Monday 7 December, 11.10-11.55am
About 40% of people in the world are already thought to suffer problems caused by degradation of nature. Restoring heavily stressed ecosystems is therefore an urgent priority and global leaders have agreed ambitious targets to restore 30% of degraded areas by 2030.
Such targets are important but they also raise challenging questions about how we go about this in particular places, where local people have cultural and economic connections to the land. Most of the areas that are being prioritised for restoration are not empty – they are places where people live, farm and form their identities. In these areas it is crucial that restoration is done with full respect for the rights and interests of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
How do we do that in practice? This class will explore this question, looking at case studies to examine how big global conservation organisations can work in ways that avoid imposing Western agendas on local people and, instead, support local leadership of environmental restoration.
Suitable for: Aged 16+ pre-university students studying, or with a possible interest in studying, Geography, Environmental Science, Sustainable Development, Global Development and related disciplines. Student groups, and individual students and teachers are very welcome to join us.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/geography-environmental-science-restoring-ecosystems-under-stress-through-partnerships-with-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities-dr-adrian-martin-from-university-of-east-anglia/