Ecosystems, rights and justice

The research in this theme aims at gaining new understanding of natural ecosystems, and explores our role in these ecosystems and the importance of biodioversity for eco-cultural conservation. It also investigates and documents the tragic occurrence of rights violations, inequalities and violence affecting the peoples that inhabit tropical forests and other ecosystems. The projects primarily focus on the SDGs for Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), Climate Action (SDG 13), Life on Land (SDG 15), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16), and especially their interactions.

Projects

• Collaborative governance of protected areas in Peruvian Amazonia
• Enhancing equitable and sustainable forest restoration in the Ecuadorian Andes
• Indigenous visions for rights-based approaches to sustainability
• Making the case for the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Mapping the ‘violence footprint’ of UK-listed companies and their operations in Cambodia
• Paraecologists for the ‘Rights of Nature’: addressing the climate and biodiversity emergencies (follow-on project: Ecoforensic: a new ecological knowledge exchange organisation empowering communities to protect nature)
• Revisioning territorial rights in Brazil in the face of resource extraction
• SDGs, global commodity chains and environmental justice
• Subsistence poaching in Wildlife Protected Areas: the scope and limitations of transactional controls in Zambia
• Supporting social, environmental and economic sustainability in the Costa Rican coffee industry
• Sustainable livelihoods, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation through forest vanilla production
• Sustainable supply chain development in forest communities
• Tuning into songs of the forest: Soundscapes and eco-cultural conservation in Kawsak Sacha, Ecuador
• The tropical Andean climate and biodiversity observatory: Community resilience through research