20-25 May 2012
Montpellier, France
Cultural diversity and biological diversity for sustainable development: Exploring the past to build up the future
The remarkable diversity in space and time of both natural environments and human societies have contributed to a complex structure of these coupled systems. Human societies have progressively shaped the various landscapes of the Mediterranean region.
Using the features of the proposed hosting region as a source of inspiration, we wish to question the history of human-induced changes for a better understanding of the components and dynamics of current global biodiversity.
Congress participants would be encouraged to focus on their understanding of past human activities as a means to develop more sustainable patterns of natural resource management in the near future. The main keywords upon which we would like to draw the congress debates are the following: coupled natural and ecological systems; historical ecology; cultural landscapes; biocultural interactions; socio-ecological resilience.
Following on this issue, we suggest a few indicative sub-themes among many others that will certainly emerge from submissions by declared participants:
- Interactions between rural & urban (local products);
- Interactions between past & contemporary agricultural practices;
- Interactions between past knowledge & contemporary practices;
- Interactions between researchers & local actors (co-learning processes);
- Interactions between TEK & environmental norms/policies;
- Interactions between ethnobiologists and the medias.
In addition to the usual plenary sessions, parallel sessions, conferences by keynote speakers, round-tables, workshops, and poster exhibitions that are inherent facets of an international congress, we wish to propose a panel of less usual forms of communications.
The Call for Session Proposals is now open. Deadline for first-stage submissions: 31 MARCH 2011
For further details, please visit the Conference Website here or contact: congress-ise2012@agropolis.fr
