2nd Garden Route Interface Meeting

2-4 October 2018, Pine Lake Marina, Sedgefield, South Africa

2nd Garden Route Interface Meeting: Science and management co-learning to navigate social-ecological issues 

Background: The Garden Route Interface Meeting is an annual event taking place in the Garden Route and providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in better understanding and managing (or navigating) social-ecological systems (SES) and their complex interactions and feedbacks. The 2017 meeting attracted 75 delegates and important discussion themes included the establishment of long-term social-ecological research sites, methods for and challenges in studying SES, sustainable resource use, adaptations and transformations in SES, ecosystem services and benefit flows, ways in which people connect with nature, and advice for bridging science-management divides. 

Themes for the 2018 meeting: The overall aim of the meeting is to promote knowledge sharing, dialogue and networking related to learning about and managing SES. Both managers and scientists are invited to share their latest approaches, challenges, insights and findings. Contributions aligned with the following themes would be especially welcome: 

  • Use of social media to make sense of people-nature interactions 
  • Intertwined nature of social and ecological systems – connections, feedbacks, models … 
  • Management approaches – stakeholder engagement, cooperative management, adaptive management … 
  • Knowledge and learning for resilient SES – social learning, knowledge co-creation, transdisciplinary research …

See here for the registration and accommodation form.

From Dr. Hervé Fritz, CNRS

Published: 24/05/2018