Iordachescu, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-6289-6581 (2022) Convivial conservation prospects in Europe—from wilderness protection to reclaiming the commons. Conservation and Society, 20 (2). pp. 156-166. ISSN 0972-4923
Abstract
Recent high-end EU discussions on biodiversity conservation support the strict protection of wild nature, thereby amplifying concerns about environmental and social injustices. Parallelly, grass-roots and academic proposals advocate for the fair recognition of community-protected areas and broader political negotiations regarding human–wildlife interactions. This paper argues that land commons offer valuable lessons toward implementing the convivial conservation vision as advanced by Büscher and Fletcher (2019). For example, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 endorses strict protection of wild nature as a core element of economic relaunching. However, the focus on wild nature rules out the development of various biodiversity hotspots under human impact. Against this strict separation, various initiatives converge to make visible the efforts of indigenous peoples and local communities who combine resource governance with biodiversity conservation beyond free-market logics and human–nature dichotomies. This contribution takes the case of the Romanian forest commons and explores the
synergies between these historical institutions and the convivial conservation proposal which advances postcapitalist conservation politics. The paper argues that the translation of conviviality to concrete pathways towards transformation is timely in Europe, and the commons offer valuable lessons which could advance a transition to more democratic and just forms of conservation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Iordăchescu 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use and distribution of the article, provided the original work is cited. |
Keywords: | wilderness; commons; conservation governance; convivial conservation; Romania |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2022 12:55 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 09:27 |
Published Version: | https://www.conservationandsociety.org.in/preprint... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Medknow |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.4103/cs.cs_35_21 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184842 |