This webinar aims to discuss how conservation policies impact rural communities (by looking for instance at the cases of forest conservation policies in the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube Delta biosphere reserve).
In a climate of land-grabbing and dispossession, this debate explores vulnerability and (in)tangible losses, such as access to the forest (and firewood), small-scale family agriculture, animals and collective/shared cultural and labour practices, traditional professions, handcrafts and jobs, and the overall rural social fabric.
We focus on how specific new policies clash with or even facilitate new forms of extractivism, populism, and sacrifice zones. We wish to debate the processes of addressing socioecological harm that contributes to the marginalisation of vulnerable/peripheral communities, who themselves bear very little responsibility for climate change.
Moderator:
- Irina Velicu, CES, University of Coimbra
Speakers:
- George Iordachescu, Wageningen University
- Ioana Savin Bursan, ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu (ULBS)
- Camil Ungureanu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Agenda
15.00 – 15.05 Welcome and introduction. Moderator: Irina Velicu, CES, University of Coimbra
15.05 – 15.20 Moderated Discussion
Speakers provide an overview of their research in relation to convivial conservation and environmental justice
15.20 – 16.00 Roundtable Debate
16.00 – 16.25 Open Q&A
16.25 – 16.30 Closing remarks
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