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We are pleased to be hosting our next colloquium in partnership with the IBioS Collaboratory at UBC, which offers solutions for global and local biodiversity challenges through research, training, policy and outreach.
Join us on Tuesday 25th October with:
Dr. Libby Lunstrum
Professor
Environmental Studies and Global Studies
Boise State University
The Dual Crisis of Conservation:
Biodiversity Decline and Conservation’s Dispossessions
Biodiversity conservation is experiencing a dual crisis: the crisis of biodiversity decline coupled with the crisis of dispossession caused by efforts to protect and conserve nature.
Each of these trends has emerged as a defining feature of conservation biology and political ecology respectively, two disciplines that often stand in tension with one another.
In this presentation, I pull this crisis apart, showing how each field understands and mobilizes the concept of crisis and how the tension between the two informs contentious disagreements around contemporary biodiversity governance. This includes the Convention for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) post-2020 global biodiversity agenda. I show how confronting this dual crisis of conservation requires integrating insights of both perspectives along with recognizing causal relations between displacement and ecological decline.
Building from here, I suggest we can begin to chart out more ecologically sustainable and socially just paths for moving forward in terms of both scholarly debate and conservation practice.
This in-person event takes place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), who have lived on this land since time immemorial.
This event will take place both in person and on Zoom, on Tuesday 25th October from 12:30 – 1:45pm Pacific.
Please register to receive Zoom meeting details.
A fully captioned recording of the event, including a transcript of the discussion, will be sent to all registrants afterwards. Please register in advance if you cannot attend and wish to receive these materials.
If you need any additional support in accessing this event, please contact mary.halton@ubc.ca
