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The Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa and its implications for thinking about Social Ecological Resilience

Bram Buscher to give presentation during the Oxford Brooks Symposium

The symposium is on 'African Environments: What is Social-Ecological Resilience and how might we
achieve it?'
, on 14 December, Oxford, UK.

Bram Buscher is one of several speakers participating in this one-day symposium which will present case-studies that will explore and inform an in-depth discussion on the relevance of the concepts of social-ecological resilience, and how these might be applied to African environments.

About Bram Buscher

Bram Buscher is Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development. He is regularly invited to give presentation and lectures on the theme of global conservation and the green economy.

Recent presentations include

  • A presentation entitled 'Nature on the Move. The Emergence and Circulation ofFictitious Conservation and Liquid Nature' at the University of Amsterdam.
  • Two seminars to the Cambridge Conservation Seminar series at the University of Cambridge. 
  • A talk entitled 'Inverted Commons, Global Imaginations and the Neoliberalisation of Nature in Africa' as part of the annual symposium on the theme of International Conservation and
    Development: Bringing People and Wildlife Together at the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation.
  • An interview for Down to Earth magazine

 

See for more information:

ISS profile Bram Buscher


Publication date: Monday, 03 December 2012


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