SPIRAL project
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 communities (IPLCS). Often located in some of the planet’s most biodiverse regions, Sacred Forests play an essential role in biocultural diversity conservation, yet they remain […]
Heritage Sensitive Conservation Policies
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 Conservation Chiang Mai University, Thailand – November 5, 2025 An international symposium at Chiang Mai University concluded today, bringing together leading scholars, conservation experts, and […]
Heritage-Sensitive Forest Governance in African contexts
CIFOR–ICRAF symposium reveals African sacred forests and Indigenous stewardship are crucial for 30×30 biodiversity targets and heritage-sensitive governance.
HERITAGE-SENSITIVE FOREST POLICIES
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 CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi and online, brings together scholars, CIFOR-ICRAF researchers, Indigenous peoples, and local community members to engage in a transdisciplinary analysis of forest conservation policies […]
Science in Action
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 3 February, featuring distinguished speakers from African and Afro-diasporic contexts. SPIRAL critically examines the technocratic, top-down models of landscape management imposed during the colonial and […]
Mapping African Approaches to Urban Planning: A Critical Overall Effort
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.
Call for Papers: POLLEN 2026
call for papers
Energy Transition: Next Generation Batteries
2BoSS Project 2BoSS Project Presentation Toward Sustainable Batteries Based on Silicon, Sulfur, and Biomass-Derived Carbon Overview The European Union is strongly committed to building a competitive and resilient European battery manufacturing value chain to accelerate the transition toward e-mobility. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption continues to rise at unprecedented speed, the need for high-performance, low-impact, […]