IUCN COMMISSION GROUP

IUCN CEM Social-Ecological Resilience and Transformation Thematic Group

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Overview and description

Description:
The loss of biodiversity, social injustice and inequality, and climate change are interconnected global crises. SERT helps conservationists to confront these crises by using systems science in their ...
The loss of biodiversity, social injustice and inequality, and climate change are interconnected global crises. SERT helps conservationists to confront these crises by using systems science in their work. This includes assessing and building social-ecological resilience, and either fostering adaptation or deliberately catalyzing and steering system transformation processes when necessary.

Group leadership

Dr Dorian FOUGÈRES

Lead

Dorian Fougères, PhD, has worked for 25 years on coastal and marine, water, agriculture, forest, and climate change policy and management. Currently the Senior Manager for Nature within CDP's Thought ...

Dorian Fougères, PhD, has worked for 25 years on coastal and marine, water, agriculture, forest, and climate change policy and management. Currently the Senior Manager for Nature within CDP's Thought Leadership division, he serves as a subject matter expert for companies, financial institutions, and colleagues on the climate-nature nexus, including forests, water, oceans, and biodiversity. The position emphasizes strategy, data insights, and engagement. He moved into this global role from a similar regional role at CDP focused on Europe. Prior to this, Dorian held senior management and executive positions within the State of California government, and served as a senior mediator and regional office director at the statewide Center for Collaborative Policy, also in California. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California at Berkeley (2005), specializing in the political ecology of coral reefs and conducting extensive field research in Indonesia as a Fulbright-IIE Scholar, Sumitro Fellow, and KITLV Leiden Fellow; and a BA Anthropology summa cum laude at Cornell University (1998). Dorian is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Commission on Ecosystem Management, and serves as the leader for its Social-Ecological Resilience and Transformation thematic group. He enjoys practicing Mysore-style ashtanga yoga, getting into the water, getting his hands in permaculture dirt, and getting into the backcountry.

Dr Manuela RUIZ REYES

Co-Lead
Colombian ecologist (BS) and geographer (MA and PhD). My main professional and academic interests are in the intersections of socio-ecological systems, participatory conservation in complex scenarios ...
Colombian ecologist (BS) and geographer (MA and PhD). My main professional and academic interests are in the intersections of socio-ecological systems, participatory conservation in complex scenarios and conflict zones (given that in Colombia everything is complex and surrounded by conflict!), multi scalar and actor diverse projects and programs, and feminist political ecology. I currently work with the Frankfurt Zoological Society in the Amazon; I have also worked with WCS in Integrated Management of Indigenous Territories in binational projects; with IUCN in the Commission on Ecosystem Management; and in the Colombian National Protected Areas System (managed by National Parks office) in the creation and management of private and community protected areas and OMECS. I am also part of a collective nature reserve in the Andean cloud forests in a territory designated as a Peasant Reserve Zone (ZRC). I also have some botanical knowledge of tropical Andean ecosystems (cloud forests and paramos). I've been lucky to study and work in and for some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world: the humid, tropical Andes and the Amazon rainforests as well as for its people.

At a glance

Official name:
IUCN CEM Social-Ecological Resilience and Transformation Thematic Group
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