Dear ECOLOGers, Please find this weeks posts from BCLS (week 5th-11st August). Reminder: you can interact with the authors around the posts by joining the community on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 If you dont have a G+ account yet, see instructions before joining at the bottom of this message (after posts).
*Post 1* Closing the biocultural loop: School education and revitalizing the traditional practice of raising ducks for biocontrol in biodiverse rice paddies in Japan, by M.A. Christoph Rupprecht (Griffith Uni.): https://plus.google.com/u/0/113268920606901026463/posts/avYTsRdahLC *Post 2* INTECOL2013 London (August 18th-24th): Symposium on Island biocultural diversity and traditional ecological knowledge organized by Prs. Sun-Kee Hong, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Gloria Pungetti,+ Workshop on The cultural forest: how widespread is it and what does it mean for conservation policy & practice Organised by Dr. Keith Kirby: https://plus.google.com/events/cvckhr8okk55fen094jduv7476k? authkey=CNbJ7duCjpSuhQE *Post 3* Perspective for urban ecoagriculture in Kenya: food security, livelihoods, and sustainable environment, by Dr L. Wertz (Ecoagriculture partners: Landscape for People, Food & Nature): https://plus.google.com/u/0/113029583943592187597/posts/fYYDibUHshK *Post 4* The link between climate, megafauna, fires and expansion of human populations, by S. Campbell (Raja Ampat Foundation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/105070666554918610430/posts/6egUfPgD8Wq *Post 5* Million Bellay from the African Biodiversity Network defines what is Culture and what are the cultural traits that strengthen social and ecological resilience in local communities: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113715128728162470816/posts/BpgFqjfXtye *Post 6* Job offer: Dr Madeleine Botrill (Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics at Conservation International, Los Angeles, CA) is offering a 12 months research position to develop institutional metrics for conservation and human well-being: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113715128728162470816/posts/imgog9Suztv *Post 7* New market culture of CloughJordan ecovillage (Irland) vs community gardens: shifting balance of power and sustainability, by MSc Steven Liaros (Griffith Uni.): https://plus.google.com/u/0/102915482316499839857/posts/HqVd7KwADkL *Post 8* New paper published in journal of Rural studies that shows how a diversity of modes of engaging with biodiversity (tourism, hunting, etc ...) stimulates a diversity of perspectives on notions of wilderness, naturalness and culturalness, which in turn are seen as moral commitments to communities and landscapes.by (): https://plus.google.com/u/0/113715128728162470816/posts/Jv1ysjYx1Qw *Post 9* Self-Introduction of Dr Tony Zola, Socio-ecological-economist in the Greater Mekong Subregion: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113098296056934802474/posts/j8FnBmiatam If you dont have a Google+ account yet, follow these 3 steps to join the BCLS community: 1. Create a Google+ account as explained in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIO3YvylEk 2. Click on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 3. Click on the red icon "join community" Kind regards, the BCLS community manager Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt Office: +61 (0)7 3833 5680 [email protected] CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Ecoscience Precinct (GC-west), 41 Boggo road, Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia
