Tag: Conservation

Para que la Economía Azul sea exitosa, sus políticas deben respetar e incorporar las tradiciones y valores de las comunidades a las que pretende ayudar.

For the Blue Economy to succeed, its policies must respect and incorporate the traditions and values of the communities it aims to benefit.

La conservación militarizada es, en esencia, una forma de deshumanizar a los cazadores furtivos. Creo que una conservación construida sobre bases de cuidado será más exitosa.

At its core, militarized conservation is a dehumanizing way to look at poachers. Conservation rooted in care, for both people and wildlife, will be more successful than conservation predicated on violence.

Liliana Sierra Castillo joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the concept of blue justice and how the expansion of aquaculture impacts small-scale fishery communities.

Aalayna Green joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss how race and gender intersect with conservation and how we can move toward more justice-oriented relationships with the natural world.

Aalayna R. Green is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Natural Resources & the Environment, with affiliations in the Department of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, at Cornell University. She obtained her B.S. in Zoology from Michigan State University. Green is a Sloan Scholar and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Gran parte de esta brecha racial y étnica en el uso de los territorios federales se achaca a la indiferencia o a la falta de interés de las personas de color y de otras identidades minoritarias, pero este punto de vista ignora el contexto crítico de cómo las identidades de las personas conforman su relación con los territorios públicos.

A lot of the racial and ethnic gap in federal land usage is blamed on indifference or lack of interest from people of color and people of other minority identities, but this viewpoint ignores critical context of how a person’s identities shape their relationship to public lands

Carolyn Ramírez joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the importance of old growth trees and the environmental justice implications of forest management.

Carolyn E. Ramírez completed their Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Northwestern University in June of 2022. They studied physical organic chemistry in graduate school, focusing on nonlinear spectroscopy of artificial photosynthetic compounds for use in solar cells.

Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss nature as medicine for our physical and mental health.