Alessandra Manzini
What Are Sacred Forests? Sacred Forests are unique social-ecological systems (SESs) found across the globe and closely connected to the cultural, spiritual, and ecological traditions of indigenous people and local
Sacred Forests and Spiritual Landscapes in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and Southeast Asia’s Terrestrial Ecoregions International Symposium at Chiang Mai University Calls for Stronger Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge in Global
CIFOR–ICRAF symposium reveals African sacred forests and Indigenous stewardship are crucial for 30×30 biodiversity targets and heritage-sensitive governance.
Indigeneity ecospiritual practices and biocultural conservation of sacred forests and spiritual landscapes in African contexts. 28th of January 2026 hybrid 10-18.30H Background, Rational and Concept This hybrid symposium, held at
24 November CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi “Rethinking Forest Governance — Indigeneity, Custodianship, and Cosmoecologies.” The event is hybrid and serves as a pivotal step toward our upcoming hybrid symposium in Nairobi on
Call for Papers – African Perspectives 2026 (Basel, 26–28 August)
“Mapping African Approaches to Urban Planning: A Critical Overall Effort”,
part of the conference African Perspectives on Global Transformations in Basel, 26–28 August 2026.
The panel explores diverse planning practices, architectures, and forms of urbanism emerging from African contexts — especially those that challenge dominant frameworks and propose new alignments between urban practice, planning cultures, and higher education.
This panel is part of the development of the forthcoming Routledge volume with Domenico Patassini and Elvira Pietrobon:
African Approaches to Urban Planning: Towards Novel Alignments of Urban Practice, Planning Cultures, and Higher Education.