Thursday, December 13, 2012

Defragmenting African Natural Resources Management & Responsive Forest Resources Governance

Africa Regional Meeting of the  International Association  for the Study of the Commons (IASC) has placed a call for papers for a Policy Forum  from the 9-11 April 2013 at Protae Hotel, Sea Point, Cape Town. The broader theme for the forum  is:
Defragmenting African Natural Resources Management & Responsive Forest Resources Governance. Suggested themes for the forum are;
- Defragmenting African resources management
- Institutional Choice and Recognition in African Forest Governance
- Embracing and harnessing local indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in natural resources management
- Effective knowledge translation for defragmenting natural resource management in Africa
- The effect of fragmented management and the additional stressors such as HIV/AIDS and climate change.  
- Implications of urbanisation and commercialisation for management of the African commons.
Submission of Abstracts deadline is: 4th February, 2013 to lmagole@ori.ub.bw & fmatose@gmail.com
It is hosted by The Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape

For more information read more at :http://www.plaas.org.za/event/policy-forum-defragmenting-african-natural-resources-management-responsive-forest-resources

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