Sear All Invitation for a book discussion relevant for the GTA My former PhD student from Peru will visit Bath, and he will launch his new book on governing the commons Friday, Jun 19 from 1:15 pm to 3:05 pm | Eventbrite This event will be hybrid. A joining link will be sent closer to the time for those wishing to attend online. Abstract The Amazon rainforest is a vital carbon reservoir and climate regulator, yet global demand for its natural resources is leading to irreversible environmental damage, impacting the planet’s water cycle, climate, and food security. How to balance the interests of the eight Amazon basin states with these global environmental concerns, and the ancestral rights of the over 400 indigenous peoples that live there? Building on fieldwork in Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador, this book provides a novel multi-scalar and multi-sectoral analysis of the Amazon. In doing so, it argues that the current governance of the Amazon exhibits the policy failures of polycentricity, with different authorities developing localised environmental initiatives with weak coordination. It sets out a policy paradigm shift to plurinational governance that incorporates indigenous peoples and conservation scientists in international decision-making.This book will interest academics of environmental law, politics and governance, and policymakers and practitioners involved in global environmental governance in general and international commons and the Amazonian region in particular. Join Dr Roger Merino as he discusses his book 'Governing International Commons: from Polycentric to Pluractional Governance in the Amazon. ’ Dr Roger Merino is an Associate Professor at the Public Management School, University of the Pacific (Universidad del Pacífico), Lima, Peru. He has been a research associate at the University of Georgia’s Centre for Integrative Conservation Research and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. He holds a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences from the University of Bath, and a master’s degree in International Policy and Comparative Law. He has authored numerous research articles, book chapters, and a monograph on issues of political ecology, environmental governance, human rights, and international environmental law. The chair and discussant will be Dr Mihika Chaterjee. Mihika Chaterjee is a political economist with an interdisciplinary orientation to international development. She is a Lecturer in International Development, and Co-Director of Centre for Development Studies <https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-development-studies/>, University of Bath. Mihika’s current research straddles two interlinked strands. The first is focused on the politics of land dispossession and rural industrialisation in Western India. The second examines the contemporary role of finance in global food regimes and issues of food production and access in the agrarian South. She co-convenes the joint study group on ‘Land, Labour, and Food’ <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.devstud.org.uk%2Fstudygroup%2Fland-labour-and-the-politics-of-development%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cie313%40bath.ac.uk%7C49bde63416c3438ab43d08de7a0e52a2%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C639082399114851385%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=j0AU8OxKoR5sa2TyQ8tJMOSH1K6F3JuvKEOv6S6roNE%3D&reserved=0> for the Development Studies Association and European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. Please register, and you will receive a link before the event!
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