Re: Coral Reef Working Group Symposium on Interdisciplinary coral reef conservation

[Meredith Gore]

Dear Fraser-
Thanks so much for your email. I think reaching out to the SSWG
listserve is a great idea. You should feel free to post directly at:
sswg...@conbio.org. I can also reach out to the SSWG board and target
them and their networks directly if you like?
Best,
Meredith


Fraser J-H wrote:
> Hi Professor Gore,
>
> I wanted to ask you about the possibility of advertising on your list
> for a member of your group to either give a talk at, or attend the
> Coral Reef Working Group symposium next year at ICCB to take part in
> the discussion at the end of the symposium as a panel member. The
> theme of the symposium will be Inter-disciplinary approaches to coral
> reef conservation, with an emphasis on using these approaches to
> identify opportunities for conservation actions. Myself and Dominique
> Pelletier (the interim CRWG President) believe it would be valuable to
> have someone who has a more formal social science background at this
> symposium, hopefully someone who has worked on issues of governance
> and coral reef conservation.
>
> Obviously we haven't had the symposium accepted yet, but wanted to get
> a head start on possible speakers/contributors.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Fraser
>
> Coral Reef Working Group Interim vVce-president
>
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Meredith L. Gore, PhD

Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Jefferson Science Fellow, US State Department, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues
President, Social Science Working Group, Society for Conservation Biology

www.conservationcriminology.com

[Fraser J-H]

Hi all, 

as Meredith has mentioned, the Coral Reef WG is putting a symposium in to the next ICCB with inter-disciplinary approaches to coral reef conservation as a theme, and are hoping a member of the SSWG would be interested in taking part in our symposium as a speaker or on the discussion panel (maybe a couple of contributors to the panel). Within the symposium,we wish to address the use of inter-disciplinary frameworks to identify conservation opportunities and actions for coral reefs, and how to approach/consider issues of governance both within the conservation and wider communities. Obviously these are broad topics, and the nature of the symposium set-up and likely audience makes deep dives difficult, but how governance in particular can influence conservation is often underappreciated, or considered in an ad hoc manner. A perspective and lessons from the social sciences would, we think, generate a useful discussion and hopefully open up some opportunities for future research and conservation.

If you are interested in either giving a talk or being on the panel, let me know. If you see this post-deadline for symposium submission, please still contact me.

Cheers

Fraser

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