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Yumiko Yasuda
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LiveDiverse E-newsletter. Vol. 1
March 2011
The LiveDiverse project (www.livediverse.eu) is now in its third year.
During the second year, the project conducted intensive field work and
the results from this work are now being analyzed and reported in
reports and publications. We would now like to update you through
this electronic newsletter, with information on recent activities and
outputs from the project. We hope that this will be of interest to
you.
LiveDiverse Partner meeting in Kolhapur, India
The third LiveDiverse partner consortium meeting took place in
Kolhapur, India, in the vicinity of the Warana river basin, in January
2011. The Warana River is the LiveDiverse project’s case study area in
India. As the project is in its final year, the meeting focused on
discussions of how to consolidate research outputs into scenario and
policy recommendation, as well as discussion of publication and
dissemination plans. More information can be found at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#kolhapur
LiveDiverse partners organise a special session and present results at
the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the
Study of the Commons
The LiveDiverse project organized two panel sessions during the 13th
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of
the Commons, which was held in Hyderabad, India from 10-14th January
2011. The panels were titled ‘Going Beyond Polarised Discourse:
Integrating Biodiversity and Livelihood Concerns in Riparian
Ecosystems in Developing Countries’ and a total of six papers were
presented. More information can be found at http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#IASC
Engaging the Community-from Venda, South Africa
On a warm Venda afternoon in May, Mr Wilson Mundzunga, resident of the
Mbahela village in Venda, tells LiveDiverse team member, Karen Nortje,
the story of the “man from outside” who came to visit Lake Fundudzi
(sacred lake to the VhaVenda) and how “very bad things” happened to
him because he did not ask the Chief permission to visit the lake - if
he had, none of the bad things would have happened. On closer
inspection one will realise that Wilson’s narrative is not just a
scary story, rather it links diverse issues such as culture and
conservation, beliefs and science to form a holistic picture of a
people and place. The story shows how traditional ways of life may
operate in a modern, Western influenced world but still find its roots
in traditions passed down over the centuries. More information at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#engagingthecommunity
LiveDiverse Reaches Out- from the Warana Basin, India
LiveDiverse believes in building close links between the research it
conducts and the stakeholders in the research areas. The Case Study
Committee constituted for the Warana Basin in India, provides an
important link in this task. The committee consists of renowned
scientists, ex-government officers, grass roots activists,
stakeholders, environmental education specialists and academics. Their
multidisciplinary approach and links with other actors in the basin
are one of LiveDiverse’s strengths. More information at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#livediversereachesout
Students Experience and contribute to LiveDiverse Research
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), one of the LiveDiverse
project partners, engaged eight Master’s students in 2010 who
participated to the field data collection in India, Costa Rica and
South Africa. The students wrote their master’s thesis on topics
related to LiveDiverse research. Elisa Trepp and Lisette van
Marrewijk tell us more about their unforgettable experiences from
their field work. More information at http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#studentinindia
New LiveDiverse Announcement Mailing List
LiveDiverse project has created a LiveDiverse announcement list, which
administrator will use to send out project updates and newsletters.
All the announcements will be stored on the announcement web site
http://groups.google.com/group/livediverse-announce?hl=en-GB
. If you would like to join the list, please sign up from the group’s
web site, or send an e-mail to yum...@livediverse.eu
New Reports and Publications from LiveDiverse
LiveDiverse is now in its final year, and from all the field studies
in different parts of the world, which have been conducted throughout
the project, we now have the following reports published on our web
site. More will be produced during the final years. See
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=20
Books and Journal Papers
- Huitema, D., A. Jordan, et al. (2011). “The evaluation of climate
policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe.” Policy Sciences,
Published online.
- Cedeño. B, Hernández. A, López. A, and Villalobos. E (2010). Atlas
Biofísico de la Cuenca del Río Grande de Térraba. Caracterización
Biofísica. Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad
Nacional.
- Cedeño. B, Hernández. A, López. A, and Villalobos. (2010).
Caracterización Socioeconómica de la Cuenca del Río Grande de Térraba.
Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional
Project Reports
- Gooch, Geoffrey; Rieu-Clarke, Alistair; Allan, Andrew; Guignier,
Armelle; Yasuda, Yumiko. (2010) Initial Institutional Analysis.
LiveDiverse Milestone 9.1 Report.
- Gooch, Geoffrey and Yasuda, Yumiko. (2010). LiveDiverse
Communication Plan. LiveDiverse Work Package 1 report.
- Gooch, Geoffrey. (2009). LiveDiverse Communication Strategy. Live
Diverse project deliverable 1.2
- A, López; Hernández. A; Villalobos E; Cedeño. B. (2010). Livelihoods
and Biodiversity Futures: Building Scenarios for the Terraba River
Basin, the Greater Kruger Park, the Warana River Basin, Ba Be National
Park and Na Hang Nature Reserve.
- Joy K.J. and Paranjape Suhas. (2010). Identify interconnections
between their cultural and spiritual practices and biodiversity in the
area: Analytical framework and methodology. (Milestone 7.1 report).
- Bouma, J. and Huitema, D. (2010). Socio-Economic Vulnerability:
Conservation-Development Trade-Offs and Agency in Multi-Level
Governance Process. (Deliverable 6.1: A multi-disciplinary,
analytical framework to integrate livelihood and biodiversity analysis
across multiple cases, including the household survey and case study
protocol):
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
Vietnam, 2nd-13th November 2009
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
South Africa, 21st-30th October 2009.
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
India, 7th-15th September 2009.
- LiveDiverse (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
Costa Rica, 21st-28th November 2009
- Grizzetti B. et al. (2010). Knowledge base for ecological, socio-
economic, cultural-spiritual and policy analysis. (LiveDiverse Project
Deliverable 2.1)
Conference Papers and Presentations
- LiveDiverse Panel at the 13th Biennial Conference of the
International Association for the Study of the Commons (10-14 January
2011)
Panel A: Going Beyond Polarised Discourse: Integrating Biodiversity
and Livelihood Concerns in
Riparian Ecosystems in Developing Countries
- Gooch, Geoffrey. (2011). Protecting Biodiversity: What’s in it for
Us? Living Near Biodiversity-Rich Areas in Vietnam, Costa Rica, India
and South Africa.
- Yasuda, Yumiko. (2011). Environmental Mainstreaming: An Analytical
Framework for Understanding the Challenges of Implementing EM Policies
in Developing Countries.
- Mukhtarov, Farhad. (2011). “Dream” Idea and Real Circumstances:
Policy Change in Na Hang and Ba Be, Vietnam.
Panel B: Going Beyond Polarised Discourse: Integrating Biodiversity
and Livelihood Concerns in Riparian Ecosystems in Developing Countries
- Nortje, Karen; Claassen, Marius; Funke, Nikki; Jacobs, Inga; Steyn,
Maronel. (2011). Understanding the Role of Public Belief Systems in
Perceptions of Bio-Physical, Socio-Economic and Cultural-Spiritual
Vulnerabilities through the Use of an Emergent Analytical Framework.
- Bouma, Jetske; Joy, K.J.; Lan, Vu Cong; Lopez Ramirez, A. Steyn, M.
(2011). Poverty, Livelihoods and the Conservation of Nature.
- Joy, K.J. and Paranjape, Suhas. (2011). Exploring Cultural-Spiritual
Vulnerability and Driver Specific Vulnerability Indices: A Case Study
of Warana River Basin in India.
- Gooch, G.D. (2008). Assessing and Managing Biodiversity, Livelihoods
and Cultural-Spiritual Diversity in Watersheds through Combined
Vulnerability Studies, conference proceedings, paper presented at the
2007 ‘Science for Sustainable Development’ conference, Linköping, 6-7
September 2007.
- Gooch, G.D. (2009). The challenge of combining strategies to manage
bio-physical, socio-economic and cultural-spiritual vulnerabilities in
the move to sustainable development, presented at the Conference
“Sustainable development: a challenge for European research” Brussels,
26 to 28 May 2009
Student Thesis and Reports
- Kouwenhoven, Remco. (2010). Tiger, People and Politics: A Multi-
Level Governance Analysis of Chandoli National Park. MSc thesis
- Trepp Elisa. (2010). Chandoli National Park and Resettlement:
Impacts on Local Communities in Maharashtra, India. MSc thesis.
- Medvey Johanna. (2010). Benefits of Burden? Community Participation
in Natural Resource Management in the Greater Kruger Park Area. MSc
thesis.
- Uribe Monica. (2010). Terraba Sierpe Wetland’s Management plan:
Struggling for policy change and its implementation. MSc thesis.
March 2011
The LiveDiverse project (www.livediverse.eu) is now in its third year.
During the second year, the project conducted intensive field work and
the results from this work are now being analyzed and reported in
reports and publications. We would now like to update you through
this electronic newsletter, with information on recent activities and
outputs from the project. We hope that this will be of interest to
you.
LiveDiverse Partner meeting in Kolhapur, India
The third LiveDiverse partner consortium meeting took place in
Kolhapur, India, in the vicinity of the Warana river basin, in January
2011. The Warana River is the LiveDiverse project’s case study area in
India. As the project is in its final year, the meeting focused on
discussions of how to consolidate research outputs into scenario and
policy recommendation, as well as discussion of publication and
dissemination plans. More information can be found at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#kolhapur
LiveDiverse partners organise a special session and present results at
the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the
Study of the Commons
The LiveDiverse project organized two panel sessions during the 13th
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of
the Commons, which was held in Hyderabad, India from 10-14th January
2011. The panels were titled ‘Going Beyond Polarised Discourse:
Integrating Biodiversity and Livelihood Concerns in Riparian
Ecosystems in Developing Countries’ and a total of six papers were
presented. More information can be found at http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#IASC
Engaging the Community-from Venda, South Africa
On a warm Venda afternoon in May, Mr Wilson Mundzunga, resident of the
Mbahela village in Venda, tells LiveDiverse team member, Karen Nortje,
the story of the “man from outside” who came to visit Lake Fundudzi
(sacred lake to the VhaVenda) and how “very bad things” happened to
him because he did not ask the Chief permission to visit the lake - if
he had, none of the bad things would have happened. On closer
inspection one will realise that Wilson’s narrative is not just a
scary story, rather it links diverse issues such as culture and
conservation, beliefs and science to form a holistic picture of a
people and place. The story shows how traditional ways of life may
operate in a modern, Western influenced world but still find its roots
in traditions passed down over the centuries. More information at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#engagingthecommunity
LiveDiverse Reaches Out- from the Warana Basin, India
LiveDiverse believes in building close links between the research it
conducts and the stakeholders in the research areas. The Case Study
Committee constituted for the Warana Basin in India, provides an
important link in this task. The committee consists of renowned
scientists, ex-government officers, grass roots activists,
stakeholders, environmental education specialists and academics. Their
multidisciplinary approach and links with other actors in the basin
are one of LiveDiverse’s strengths. More information at
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#livediversereachesout
Students Experience and contribute to LiveDiverse Research
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), one of the LiveDiverse
project partners, engaged eight Master’s students in 2010 who
participated to the field data collection in India, Costa Rica and
South Africa. The students wrote their master’s thesis on topics
related to LiveDiverse research. Elisa Trepp and Lisette van
Marrewijk tell us more about their unforgettable experiences from
their field work. More information at http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=15#studentinindia
New LiveDiverse Announcement Mailing List
LiveDiverse project has created a LiveDiverse announcement list, which
administrator will use to send out project updates and newsletters.
All the announcements will be stored on the announcement web site
http://groups.google.com/group/livediverse-announce?hl=en-GB
. If you would like to join the list, please sign up from the group’s
web site, or send an e-mail to yum...@livediverse.eu
New Reports and Publications from LiveDiverse
LiveDiverse is now in its final year, and from all the field studies
in different parts of the world, which have been conducted throughout
the project, we now have the following reports published on our web
site. More will be produced during the final years. See
http://www.livediverse.eu/?page_id=20
Books and Journal Papers
- Huitema, D., A. Jordan, et al. (2011). “The evaluation of climate
policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe.” Policy Sciences,
Published online.
- Cedeño. B, Hernández. A, López. A, and Villalobos. E (2010). Atlas
Biofísico de la Cuenca del Río Grande de Térraba. Caracterización
Biofísica. Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad
Nacional.
- Cedeño. B, Hernández. A, López. A, and Villalobos. (2010).
Caracterización Socioeconómica de la Cuenca del Río Grande de Térraba.
Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional
Project Reports
- Gooch, Geoffrey; Rieu-Clarke, Alistair; Allan, Andrew; Guignier,
Armelle; Yasuda, Yumiko. (2010) Initial Institutional Analysis.
LiveDiverse Milestone 9.1 Report.
- Gooch, Geoffrey and Yasuda, Yumiko. (2010). LiveDiverse
Communication Plan. LiveDiverse Work Package 1 report.
- Gooch, Geoffrey. (2009). LiveDiverse Communication Strategy. Live
Diverse project deliverable 1.2
- A, López; Hernández. A; Villalobos E; Cedeño. B. (2010). Livelihoods
and Biodiversity Futures: Building Scenarios for the Terraba River
Basin, the Greater Kruger Park, the Warana River Basin, Ba Be National
Park and Na Hang Nature Reserve.
- Joy K.J. and Paranjape Suhas. (2010). Identify interconnections
between their cultural and spiritual practices and biodiversity in the
area: Analytical framework and methodology. (Milestone 7.1 report).
- Bouma, J. and Huitema, D. (2010). Socio-Economic Vulnerability:
Conservation-Development Trade-Offs and Agency in Multi-Level
Governance Process. (Deliverable 6.1: A multi-disciplinary,
analytical framework to integrate livelihood and biodiversity analysis
across multiple cases, including the household survey and case study
protocol):
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
Vietnam, 2nd-13th November 2009
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
South Africa, 21st-30th October 2009.
- LiveDiverse. (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
India, 7th-15th September 2009.
- LiveDiverse (2010). Summary-Report from 1st Stakeholder Fieldtrips:
Costa Rica, 21st-28th November 2009
- Grizzetti B. et al. (2010). Knowledge base for ecological, socio-
economic, cultural-spiritual and policy analysis. (LiveDiverse Project
Deliverable 2.1)
Conference Papers and Presentations
- LiveDiverse Panel at the 13th Biennial Conference of the
International Association for the Study of the Commons (10-14 January
2011)
Panel A: Going Beyond Polarised Discourse: Integrating Biodiversity
and Livelihood Concerns in
Riparian Ecosystems in Developing Countries
- Gooch, Geoffrey. (2011). Protecting Biodiversity: What’s in it for
Us? Living Near Biodiversity-Rich Areas in Vietnam, Costa Rica, India
and South Africa.
- Yasuda, Yumiko. (2011). Environmental Mainstreaming: An Analytical
Framework for Understanding the Challenges of Implementing EM Policies
in Developing Countries.
- Mukhtarov, Farhad. (2011). “Dream” Idea and Real Circumstances:
Policy Change in Na Hang and Ba Be, Vietnam.
Panel B: Going Beyond Polarised Discourse: Integrating Biodiversity
and Livelihood Concerns in Riparian Ecosystems in Developing Countries
- Nortje, Karen; Claassen, Marius; Funke, Nikki; Jacobs, Inga; Steyn,
Maronel. (2011). Understanding the Role of Public Belief Systems in
Perceptions of Bio-Physical, Socio-Economic and Cultural-Spiritual
Vulnerabilities through the Use of an Emergent Analytical Framework.
- Bouma, Jetske; Joy, K.J.; Lan, Vu Cong; Lopez Ramirez, A. Steyn, M.
(2011). Poverty, Livelihoods and the Conservation of Nature.
- Joy, K.J. and Paranjape, Suhas. (2011). Exploring Cultural-Spiritual
Vulnerability and Driver Specific Vulnerability Indices: A Case Study
of Warana River Basin in India.
- Gooch, G.D. (2008). Assessing and Managing Biodiversity, Livelihoods
and Cultural-Spiritual Diversity in Watersheds through Combined
Vulnerability Studies, conference proceedings, paper presented at the
2007 ‘Science for Sustainable Development’ conference, Linköping, 6-7
September 2007.
- Gooch, G.D. (2009). The challenge of combining strategies to manage
bio-physical, socio-economic and cultural-spiritual vulnerabilities in
the move to sustainable development, presented at the Conference
“Sustainable development: a challenge for European research” Brussels,
26 to 28 May 2009
Student Thesis and Reports
- Kouwenhoven, Remco. (2010). Tiger, People and Politics: A Multi-
Level Governance Analysis of Chandoli National Park. MSc thesis
- Trepp Elisa. (2010). Chandoli National Park and Resettlement:
Impacts on Local Communities in Maharashtra, India. MSc thesis.
- Medvey Johanna. (2010). Benefits of Burden? Community Participation
in Natural Resource Management in the Greater Kruger Park Area. MSc
thesis.
- Uribe Monica. (2010). Terraba Sierpe Wetland’s Management plan:
Struggling for policy change and its implementation. MSc thesis.
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