Story | 10 Feb, 2017
People in Nature: 2016 highlights and next phase
CEESP News - by Seline Meijer
People in Nature (PiN) is an IUCN knowledge basket being developed by CEESP and the Global Economics and Social Science Programme in the IUCN Secretariat. PiN provides a process of systematic data collection, analysis and documentation for landscape level…
Story | 09 Feb, 2017
CEESP News - by Christoph Weigl
Story | 09 Feb, 2017
CEESP News - By James Karimi
Story | 08 Feb, 2017
Law Students Making a Difference for Parks and Nature
CEESP News - by Warren G. Lavey, Adjunct professor, University of Illinois College of Law
At the University of Illinois, the applied environmental law program made a difference for organizations facing a variety of challenges to parks and natural resources. In 2016, 14…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
Bayesian Networks for modeling conservation impacts
CEESP News
By Cory W. Whitney
The application of alternative modeling approaches could be expanded to help bridge the social and biological strengths of the IUCN to help promote both conservation and livelihoods. By combining the features of several participatory…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
Urban Sacred Natural Sites – A Call for Research
CEESP News -
By: Wendy Jackson and Alison Ormsby
Much has been written about sacred sites in urban areas, which tend to be human-built structures (e.g., churches, synagogues, mosques, shrines, monasteries, and burial sites). However, minimal attention has been given to sacred …
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
2016: an eventful year for SULi
CEESP News -
By Dr Rosie Cooney, SULi Chair and Dr Rebecca Cross, SULi Programme Office
2016 was a very eventful year for the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) members, who attended - in force - key international meetings to forward the ever-increasing…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
First IUCN-ICCROM World Heritage Leadership course to focus on managing nature-culture links
Enrolment is now open for the first World Heritage Leadership course, which will focus on “Addressing Nature-Culture Interlinkages in Managing World Heritage Sites”. It is organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Centre for the Study of the…
Story | 02 Dec, 2016
Tackling wildlife trafficking through the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Recognising the significant and detrimental economic, environmental, security-related, and social impacts of the illegal trade in wildlife, 42 countries adopted the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade on 17 November 2016. The Statement that was adopted at the Hanoi Conference on illegal…