The second LiveDiverse partner meeting was held in South Africa in March 2010.

The second LiveDiverse partner meeting was held in the Kruger Park, South Africa from 13-21 of March 2010.  Nineteen participants from eight different partner organizations participated in the meeting, and visited the South African case area, the Mutabe River and the Limpopo Province. The partners discussed the results so far and planned the field work for 2010, which will include household surveys , interviews, village meetings and vulnerability studies in all 4 case areas.

New reports from LiveDiverse published on the internet. LiveDiverse has recently published 2 scientific reports,  one the project deliverable ‘Knowledge base for ecological, socio-economic, cultural-spiritual and policy analysis, coordinated by the EC Joint Research Center, and the second ‘Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Conservation-Development Trade-Offs and Agency in Multi-Level Governance Process’ produced by the Institute for Environmental Studies. The first report gathers the present knowledge on biophysical, socio-economic and cultural-spiritual vulnerability in the LiveDiverse case areas and the second provides the conceptual framework for analyzing socio-economic vulnerability. Click here to access the reports.

New book edited by LiveDiverse partners – Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management (Gooch and Stålnacke eds.) A new book on Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management (Gooch & Stålnacke, eds.) with contributions from LiveDiverse participants  is about to be published by Earthscan. The book presents both an analytical framework and examples from case areas on how science, policy and stakeholders can interact in water management. As LiveDiverse studies biodiversity and livelihoods in riparian areas, this will provide a useful contribution to the project’s work.   Click here for more information about the new book.

LiveDiverse coordinator presents the project at the first IUCN UK Conference in Edinburgh 19-20 April

The LiverDiverse project coordinator, Professor Geoffrey Gooch, presented the project at the first IUCN UK Conference in Edinburgh, 19-20 April. Valuable contacts were developed at the conference with, for example, the IUCN’s Working Group on Cultural and Spiritual values of Protected Areas, and with the working group on mangroves.