Towards a rights-based
agenda in international forestry? Berkeley, USA, 30-31 May 2009 University Hall, Room 150 Tentative Program Saturday, May 30th 8:30 Arrivals and registration 9:00 Welcome and introductions 9:30 Keynote papers William Sunderlin, The Evolution of Rights in the Forest: Three
Critical Turning Points Jesse Ribot,
Rights and Stratification: Access Control and Maintenance in a Sahelian
Forest 11:00 Coffee 11:30 Political organizing for
forest rights Lynn Jungwirth, [tba] Oliver Springate-Baginski et al., Forest Rights Reform and the State: The Political
Ecology of Democratising Forest Governance in India Discussant:
Jeff Romm 1:00 Lunch 2:30 Implementing
rights-based approaches Paul Vantomme, Implementing Rights-based Forestry Legislation in
Central Africa: Lessons from Country Experience Moira Moeliono and Godwin Limberg, Putting a Park in the Right Place: A rights based
approach to conservation in developing countries Discussant:
Louise Fortmann 4:00 Coffee 4:30 Conflicting local and
global claims Victoria Edwards, Multiple Use and Associated Rights: Key Issues
from a Thousand Years of Institutional Evolution in the New Forest, UK Stefan Dorondel, Who Benefits from the Forest? National Park, Land
Reform and the Clash of Property Rights in Postsocialism Discussant:
Cari Coe 7:00 Dinner at Restaurant Azerbaijan, 2175 Allston Way, (510)
704-1718 Sunday, May 31st 9:00 Human rights and forests Shaunna Barnhart, A Right to Resources, A Right to Dignity:
Community Forestry and the Promotion of Human Rights Blake Ratner,
Rights, Conflicts and Forest Governance in Cambodia Discussant:
Nancy Peluso 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Critiquing property
rights Neera Singh,
Democratic Spaces across Scales: Towards More Inclusive Community Forestry To Xuan Phuc,
How Does Forest Devolution Contribute to Agrarian Differentiation in the
Vietnamese Uplands? Peter Leigh Taylor, Saying ‘Enough’ in Market-Based Environmental
Governance? Organizing Diversification in Community-based Forestry in the
Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala Discussant:
Beth Rose Middleton 1:00 Lunch 2:30 Synthesis discussion Facilitators: Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl 4:00 Coffee 4:30 Plans for publication 5:00 Wrap-up |