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I founded CBNRMNet in 1998 as a World Bank activity. It is a follow-up activity of the World Bank's "CBNRM Initiative", and it incorporates the World Bank's CPRNet. Today it is a project of CBNRM Networking, a Norwegian NGO.
A World Bank project (1997-1999). Organized an intl. workshop on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in 1998. The World Bank's "CPRNet" was a partner. Follow-up activities included "CBNRM Net" and "CBNRM Networking".
The World Bank's Common Property Resource Management Network (CPRNet) was founded by me in 1995. Partner in World Bank "CBNRM Initiative". Merged with CBNRM Net in 2001.
My life – professionally and personally – can, perhaps, be summed up in this self-composed text, posted on the doors of all offices I have occupied, in a number of countries on several continents.
A new species of spider is named in honor of fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld. It remains to be seen if this will have any effect when it comes to biodiversity conservation, of this as well as other (very) small species.
About the conference "International Situation and Collaboration in the Black, Mediterranean and Baltic Seas - Legal, Economic and Environmental Aspects" (Sofia, Bulgaria, 5-7 June 2019), organized by the Black Sea Institute Association.
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made a presentation to the EU Parliament's Environment Committee on 16 April 2019. It focused on the need for action by the EU, and addressed among others the upcoming EU elections.
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Western ideas of environmental conservation, often extended to cover traditional cultures, have sometimes conflicting relations with indigenous wisdom about conservation. Jane Goodal is presented as a case in point.
