Leadership for sustainability
Protecting the environment release_w6zs6ldeibgjppz7a5nc7hurn4

by Wanjira Mathai, Ma. del Socorro Aguilar Cucurachi

Published in Regions and Cohesion / Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion by Berghahn Books.

2022   Volume 12, p4-20

Abstract

Fasten our green belts toward a resilient and sustainable future (p.4) <jats:italic>Wanjira Mathai</jats:italic>A more resilient future requires urgent actions to establish harmony between human development and nature, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Climate change adaptation requires investing in green belts as nature-based solutions, where innovative grassroots action, local and indigenous knowledge, and gender equality are key. Mathai discusses the question, what does it mean to tighten our green belts? Food systems, the protection of the "earth's lungs," the reduction of waste, and the restoration of landscapes are mainly addressed. The Green Belt Movement, led by women in Africa, showed how grassroots action scales up and impacts through long-term sustainable solutions. Restoration movements and initiatives worldwide represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore landscapes for productivity, fight carbon emissions, and recover the ecosystem services to sustain human lives.Percepciones locales para la restauración ecológica (p.12) <jats:italic>Ma. del Socorro Aguilar Cucurachi</jats:italic>A partir de las experiencias sobre el Movimiento Cinturones Verdes, presentadas por Wanjira Mathai en el marco de las Kapuscinski Development Lectures (en febrero 2021), destaco la importancia de la di-mensión social en los procesos de restauración y delineo cuatro formas posibles en las que las percepciones locales se vinculan con la restaura-ción ecológica: (1) las percepciones como impulso para la restauración; (2) la restauración ecológica como objeto de percepción; (3) las percepciones sobre la participación local en la restauración ecológica; y (4) la importancia de las sinergias epistémicas, multiactorales y multidimensio nales. La restauración ecológica implica una base científi ca, que considera entre sus principios la dimensión social, con benefi cios signifi cativos para el bienestar humano.<jats:p />
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