We are knowledgeable of Environment-Society interactions and Pastoral Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas as much as their potentials in terms of socio-economic reinforcement through their Heritage enhancement. Our acronym emanates out of it: PICCAHers.
Towards a community-led ecological transition
Our main goal is to undertake the most holistic research possible about the multi-diverse interactions between society and the environment in order to be able to provide the most complete advice and facilitate solutions to the different problems we are facing at both global and local scale, in the midst of the current global ecological transition through the vector of local communities’ signification.
More concretely, we are particularly focused on supporting and promoting the participation of local communities in the governance of socio-ecological systems, since through the past decades we have empirically acknowledged their positive role in environmental conservation and developmental potentials when they make full part of the governance process.
The communities we work with are key for global sustainability as they participate in the governance of at least a fifth of the planet’s ecosystems (embedded in history, social and cultural identity, sense of belonging, often elements of local spirituality, etc.), that makes and enforces decisions and rules about that same territory, contributing to the conservation of the environment as well as to the communities’ wellbeing and that of the broader society. Discover more about Territories of Life here.
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