Hi, Ecolog-Lers please find the weekly digest of the new posts from the Google+ community "Biocultural Landscapes and seascapes" (BCLS). You can interact around these posts with the authors on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 See instructions at the bottom of the message to join the community.
- Post 1 (by B. Montanari from Kent Centre of Biocultural Diversity): the future of agriculture and integration with TEK in Moroccan mountains. - Post 2: post shared from The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) that presents an ecotourism crowdfunding project as a way to sustain local biodiversity and culture in the countryside around the Black Sea (Ukraine, Turkey and Georgia). - Post 3 (by Dr. Georgina Cullman: AMNH): Videos available online from AMNH 2013 Symposium: Understanding Ecological and Social Resilience in Island Systems: Informing Policy and Sharing Lessons for Management - Post 4 (by Dr JB Pichancourt CSIRO): Event registration to the 2013 Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (Kenya, from September 24-27): The conference program will feature ideas, opportunities and solutions for the tourism industry to support conserving natural areas, alleviating poverty, empowering women, enhancing education, and improving the health and well-being of local communities. - Post 5 (by Dr Louis Wertz from EcoAgriculture Partners: Landscape for people, food and Nature): on The Landscapes Roundtable series on urban food issues concludes today with a post from Rafael Tuts of UN Habitat. Check out the entire series. - Post 6 (by Dr Gleb Raygorodetsky from UNU AIS-TKI): Changing With the Land: The Skolt Sámis Path to Climate Change Resilience (from National Geographic). -Post 7 (by Steven Liaros from Griffith Uni): presents their 7 month journey to explore ideas for building ecovillages and intentional communities. - Post 8 (by Dr. JB Pichancourt from CSIRO) - presents paper published this month in Global Environmental Change that illuminate how bio-cultural refugia store, revive and transmit memory of agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how such social memories are carried forward between people and across cohorts. - Post 9: (by Scott Jorgensen): Help his Kickstarter campaign to build resilient bee/urban agriculture/local community system. - Post 10 (by PhD Samantha Andrew from University of Exeter): Solving Triple Bottom line issues for local traditional fisheries in Bangladesh - Post 11 (by JB Pichancourt from CSIRO): How can local communities maintain traditional ecological knowledge? - Million Bellay from the African Biodiversity Network (ABN) answers this question. - Post 12 (by PhD Samantha Andrew from Exeter Uni) on Triple-bottom line issues in tropical Pacific fisheries and relation with climate change - Post 13 (by PhD Christoph Rupprecht from Griffith Uni): August 2013 National Geographic looks at the connection of biodiversity and culture in Transylvania (Europe). - Post 14 (by JB Pichancourt from CSIRO): Jeff Campbell, Director of Grantmaking of the Christensen Fund (US private foundation focusing its support on Biocultural programs), has been offered to head up the newly launched Forest and Farm Facility. - Post 15 (by Dr Elizabeth Lester from the Ecological Society of America): Are human conservation choices redefining the fitness of an ancient survival strategy in the Yellow-Stone National Park? -Post 16 (by JB Pichancourt from CSIRO): Bioversity International is working with countries to help countries implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Representatives of Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda speak about the challenges they face. - Post 17 (by JB Pichancourt from CSIRO): Beyond the biocultural landscape and biocultural diversity, the 'inextricable [biocultural] links' that underpin the adaptive capacities of the whole biocultural system. If you dont have a Google+ account yet, follow these 3 steps to join the BCLS community: 1. Create a Google+ account as explained in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIO3YvylEk 2. Click on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 3. Click on the red icon "join community" Cheers - the BCLS group
