Luis Santamaria will spend six months of sabbatical leave at the Phytophagy Lab, hosted by Anurag Agrawal.
22.11.11
MYEULINK - Tropical deforestation - Local solutions for global problems
Luis Santamaría participates at MYEULINK.
Tropical deforestation is a major global driver of biodiversity loss and climate change. It leads to reductions in biodiversity, disturbed ecosystems services (e.g. water regulation, soil conservation) and the destruction of livelihoods for many of the world’s poorest. Deforestation also produces between 12 to 20% of global greenhouse gases, about equal to the emissions from the entire global transport sector.
The dichotomy between deforestation and conservation has been marked by the confrontation of two opposed ideologies that conceived forested tropical areas as empty spaces, which could be either developed for civilization, or maintained free of human influence as “pristine nature”. Both ideologies ignored the existence of a long tradition of forest use and management by local populations. The emergence of a “third way” (socio-environmentalism) that fostered the human use of forested conservation areas and the key role of the humanized matrix between forest fragments was vital for the reduction of clearing rates in the Amazon. There, the increase in deforestation rate has been halted during the last decade, owing to the confluence of social and policy processes at global, national and local scales; and, because secondary forests reasonably recover biodiversity and ecosystem function over reasonable time frames (years to decades), there are some reasons for optimism.
Congress-6th ICEF - Interdisciplinarity in action: linking science and policy to preserve biodiversity and restore ecosystem functions
Luis Santamaría participates at the Conference 6th Interdisciplinary Progress in Environmental Science & Management - Topic 6 Elinor Ostrom: A Framework for Interdisciplinary Study of Social-Ecological Systems...read more at Interfaz Project
29.6.11
Seminar - A Sectoral Agreement in Galapagos. Integration, Equity and Efficiency in Tourism as an Engine for Sustainable Development
Galapagos is a very fragile archipelago from an ecosystem standpoint,
whose economic development depends heavily on tourism. In this seminar,
Cristian Cavicchiolo will introduce the project “Sustainable Development of the Productive Sectors in Galapagos”
(funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and implemented by the
Provincial Chamber of Tourism). This project aims to integrate the main
productive sectors as an overarching strategy to strengthen the smaller
supply chains, while at the same time increasing the equitable
distribution of tourism revenues. These objectives are also expected to
reduce opportunistic behaviors and the over-exploitation of natural
resources. Also, Cristian will present the pilot initiative “Quality for the Tourism Operation of Galapagos”, an initiative born in the framework of this project. Such initiative aims…read more at Interfaz Project
28.6.11
El Laboratorio en la Prensa - Detectives de la biodiversidad
B@LEÓPOLIS | Medio Ambiente (El Mundo). Descargate el artículo.
Elena Soto
¿En qué se parecen una lagartija balear, un elefante de Sri Lanka y
un marsupial arbóreo de los bosques lluviosos de Chile? A primera vista
en nada, pues se trata de tres especies que ni buscadas con lupa
podrían ser más diferentes. Pero si miramos con más detenimiento
comenzaremos a descubrir ciertos parecidos razonables. Los tres son
animales frágiles, a los que la destrucción o alteración de su hábitat
podría abocar a la extinción; y los tres, también, son frugívoros
(comen frutos), desempeñando una importante labor en la conservación de
su entorno como dispersores de semillas.
9.12.10
3rd SEA-EU-NET presentations published
The presentations held in the course of the conference, which took
place on 24-25 November, 2010 in Budapest have been published in the
conference web page:
To see Luis Santamaría participation:
To see a wrap-up of the thematic session “Biodiversity & conservation of natural resources”:
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