Convery, Ian
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-5660
(2023)
Listen to country, listen to nature.
In: Biodiversity 23, 10-12 October 2023, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
The University of Cumbria's Professor Ian Convery gave a keynote to over 600 delegates at the Biodiversity Conference 2023. The conference focused on expanding collaboration across government and nongovernment sectors by co-developing solutions with indigenous and local communities, learning from both indigenous and western scientific knowledge. His keynote concerned rewilding’s long-term aims, integrating ecological and socio-cultural factors, as a means to unify the global, multidisciplinary field of rewilding. He presented a theory of change framework, developed with Sally Hawkins as part of her PhD research at the University of Cumbria, in order to assist practitioners in the planning and application of rewilding.
Abstract: Rewilding has become increasingly popular around the world, with rewilding practiced in a variety of ways to suit local ecological and cultural contexts. This has led to some confusion over the term rewilding, leaving it open to misinterpretation and the risk of diluting its longer-term potential to deliver transformational change. This presentation will focus on rewilding’s long-term aims, integrating ecological and socio-cultural factors, as a means to unify the global, multidisciplinary field of rewilding. The presented framework can assist practitioners in the planning and application of rewilding, offering an iterative, adaptive process that recognises the need to address both social and ecological factors at a landscape scale. This framework is based on data collected through a grounded theory approach, drawing from surveys and secondary data from rewilding practitioners, researchers and authors. Rewilding requires and promotes transformational ecological and social change, the application of rewilding therefore requires innovative and interdisciplinary approaches.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote) |
|---|---|
| Departments: | Institute of Science and Environment > Forestry and Conservation |
| Depositing User: | Anna Lupton |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2023 13:22 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2024 15:32 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7494 |
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