Transcript Resilient Cooperation

RESILIENT COOPERATION: A (RE)NEW(ED)
ALTERNATIVE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CHRIS BISSON
M.A. CANDIDATE
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
OTTAWA, CANADA
Summary
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Introduction
What is permaculture
UNFCCC REDD+ & Adaptation Framework
Resilient Cooperation for Implementation
Conclusion
What is permaculture?
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“ an ethics based design process aimed at
fostering and maintaining resilient and socially
just human living spaces”
- Chris
Bisson
“Permanence” + “Culture” = Resilience
Problems are Opportunities
UNFCCC
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REDD+ & Adaptation Framework
20% of human-produced greenhouse gasses
worldwide is produced by forest loss (van der
Werf et al 2009)
300 million mostly Indigenous people living
directly in the world’s forests (UNVC 2011)
AF: “reducing vulnerability and building
resilience in developing country Parties”
(FCCC 2010: 4)
Resilient Cooperation
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Resilience vs. Sustainable
Cooperation vs. Development
Vital Human Participation in the Biosphere
Horizontal and Democratic Agenda Setting
and Programme Delivery.
Emphasis set on frontline communities and
youth.
Conclusion
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“As in permaculture, many of the problems we
face with climate change are opportunities to
identify new ways to get back to what our goals
were before we created the crisis”. - Chris
Bisson
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