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Mangrove epigenetics
Mangroves are one of the most important estuarine ecosystems from a biological, environmental, cultural and economic point of view.
Transformative Conservation in Social-Ecological Systems
This paper explores how the transformation of ecosystems profoundly threatens nature and human well-being while providing equally powerful opportunities to restructure and improve how we live in the world. It aims to stimulate dialogue at the 2020 World Conservation Congress about the depth, breadth, and pace of work needed for transformative conservation (TC) – conserving biodiversity while transitioning to Carbon Dioxide Removal economies and securing the sustainable and regenerative use of natural resources.
Six recommendations to empower transformative conservation:
1. Dramatically increase our familiarity with system transformation concepts, such as the adaptive cycle of systems, panarchy, and transition design.
2. Strongly link societal and personal transformations; for example, through interfaith conservation, indigenous environmental sciences, and contemporary ritual.
3. Update how we plan for transformation, including tools like decision-scaling, adaptation pathways, and shared socioeconomic pathways.
4. Facilitate shifting from diagnosis to transformative action; for example, through peer mentoring networks, transformation labs, and transformative climate science.
5. Improve our ability to adjust to transformation as it occurs, using decision windows, horizon work, and real-time climate services, among other things.
6. Partner with political movements to achieve equitably and just transformation, whether through participatory action research, indigenous just transitions, transformative climate politics, or other approaches to fomenting social-ecological change.
Source: https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/content/documents/cem_2020_-_transformative_conservation.pdf
Six recommendations to empower transformative conservation:
1. Dramatically increase our familiarity with system transformation concepts, such as the adaptive cycle of systems, panarchy, and transition design.
2. Strongly link societal and personal transformations; for example, through interfaith conservation, indigenous environmental sciences, and contemporary ritual.
3. Update how we plan for transformation, including tools like decision-scaling, adaptation pathways, and shared socioeconomic pathways.
4. Facilitate shifting from diagnosis to transformative action; for example, through peer mentoring networks, transformation labs, and transformative climate science.
5. Improve our ability to adjust to transformation as it occurs, using decision windows, horizon work, and real-time climate services, among other things.
6. Partner with political movements to achieve equitably and just transformation, whether through participatory action research, indigenous just transitions, transformative climate politics, or other approaches to fomenting social-ecological change.
Source: https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/content/documents/cem_2020_-_transformative_conservation.pdf
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Ecuadorian mangroveS
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SOME OF ITS CHARACTERISTICS ARE:
- The ability to adapt to the adverse conditions that occur in these ecosystems.
- The marked tolerance to salinity.
- The presence of holding roots.
- Respiratory and filtering structures (Pneumatophores).
- Embryos capable of floating.
MANGLE SPECIES IN ECUADOR
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EVOLUTION OF MANGROVES BY PROVINCE IN ECUADOR
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Evolution of mangroves, shrimp farms and salt flats in Ecuador from 1969 to 2006
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Ecuador is one of the largest shrimp producers worldwide.
ECOSYSTEM HEALTH - MANGROVE DESTRUCTION
The Politics of Identification in a Shrimp Conflict in Ecuador: The Political Subject, “Pueblos Ancestrales del Ecosistema Manglar” [Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem]
Due to the success of Ecuadorian and (Latin American) cultural identity politics from 1990 onwards, claims to indigeneity in this region have become a strong basis for securing collective land rights. Recent literature on ethnic-racial identities provides many fascinating examples of “indigeneity” that challenge dominant conceptions of this category. The present case study counters the hegemonic assumption that considers ethnic identifications within a single racial category. The social movement identified with the political subject “Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem” has transcended the “racialized” divisions usually linked to ethnic identities by articulating a contested ethnic discourse based on the concepts of “ancestrality” and “peoplehood” to demand collective rights. This political subject is self-represented as “Ancestral Peoples” who belong to a specific natural ecosystem while being constituted from a “multiracialized” group.
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