Heritage-Sensitive policies in the Andes, Chaco and Amazonia
Exploring rights-based conservation through ICCAs, ITTs and OECMs, advancing Indigenous governance, land rights and biodiversity.
SPIRAL project
SPIRAL(2024-2026): cross cultural study of sustainable management practices of spiritual landscapes was hosted at PLACES lab (CY Cergy Paris University and CASEs group at the University Pompeu Fabra) and supported by the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowship Programme and funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945380. […]
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
“Rethinking Forest Governance — Indigeneity, Custodianship, and Cosmoecologies.” 24 November CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi This seminar was hybrid and served as a pivotal step toward another hybrid symposium held in Nairobi on 28 January 2026, featuring distinguished speakers from African and Afro-diasporic contexts as part of the SPIRAL project and the delphi process to discuss with indigenous […]
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
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