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The Biodiversity Dimension of Degrowth: A Workshop on Strategizing with Convivial Conservation
Convivial Conservation (CC) is a transformative proposal for the systematic redesign of biodiversity conservation. It responds to the failure of mainstream solutions put forward to address the intensifying environmental and biodiversity crises, as they remain rooted in capitalist and growth-centered development agendas. The approach is based on two foundational long-term principals connected to 1) the spatial and philosophical re-integration of people and nature and as such 2) transformation of the economy along with the financial and democratic principles of conservation. Building on the momentum of the recent book The Conservation Revolution (2020) and multiple major research and action projects, a network of individuals behind the framework are preparing to operationalise a platform and action-policy network. This will involve driving forward initiatives working to re-balance the economy and re-integrate our living spaces with our natural ecosystems through community-building, advocacy, research, grassroots action, and creative approaches in arts, design and landscape architecture.
This hybrid talk and workshop session will outline the theoretical and practical tenants of convivial conservation, highlighting synergies with degrowth to explore opportunities for alliances and integrations across both movements. Workshop activities will facilitate enquiry and discussion around the anatomy of strategies that encompass top-down and bottom-up theories of change. Like degrowth, CC emerges from an elite domain of academia and practice looking to transform Northern scientific, policy and financial institutions (which continue to dominate global conservation frameworks) but will be animated and enabled through alliances with social movements, local communities and indigenous groups on the front lines of biodiversity crises.
Info
Day:
2023-08-30
Start time:
12:00
Duration:
01:30
Room:
ZV-8-6
Type:
Non-academic Session
Theme:
Resilience building through degrowth
