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These projects focus on the management and use of
biological diversity with special emphasis on the ecological consequences
of special effects in relation to maintenance of various aspects of biological
diversity, the benefit sharing related to special forms for use and conservation,
questions related to the Convention on Biological Diversity and perceptions,
discourses and power relations in concrete cases of use and/or conservation
of biological diversity. Non-timber forest product use, extraction and
maintenance is a core part of the focus.
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STRIVER, Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM –
An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins.
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Contact: Ingrid Nesheim
LUPIS, Land use and sustainable development in Developing Countries
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Contact: Ingrid Nesheim
Towards sustainable and equitable bioprospecting
in Norway
Focus: Stakeholders, institutions, legislative and environmental considerations.
Project Leader: Kristi-Anne Stølen
Contact: Mariel Aguilar Støen
Completed projects
From Plants in the South
to Medicines in the North: an interdisciplinary research project on bioprospecting
Based on case studies from Costa Rica, Tanzania, Thailand and Norway
this project assesses biological diversity related to medicine. It focuses
on the effects of bioprospecting on the conservation of biological diversity,
the sustainability of use of biodiversity and economic and social development
in source countries, including that in local communities supplying materials
and indigenous knowledge about their properties and uses. Related work
also involves studying the implementation status of the Convention on
Biological Diversity.
Contact :Alida
Jay Boye
Non-timber product use - traditional knowledge, conservation and sustainable
extraction
The focus is on the diversity and use of non-timber forest products (NTFP)
in several countries. The research (i) involves rigorous scientific evaluation
of and data on the measurement of sustainability of harvesting practices,
(ii) highlights the species (consumptive and non-consumptive) that local
(often marginalized) people use, have knowledge about and value, (iii)
contributes to prioritising conservation of local resources for health
and welfare via sustainable extractive methods, and (iv) points to required
management strategies and regulations. The project involves a number of
disciplines, biology-ecology, social anthropologists and law.
Vascular plant diversity and its use in a neotropical rain forest inhabited
by migrants
This PhD. study assesses the impact of new settlement on the vascular
plant diversity in a rain forest area with regard to environmental knowledge.
Lack of adequate ecological knowledge in rural development may lead to
increased risks regarding sustainable use of natural resources. The study
will compare the vascular plant diversity in an exploited forest and in
a primary forest in the Lacandona jungle in Peten, Guatemala and describe
the inhabitants' use of vascular plants.
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