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Conclusion
No full text[Extract] When we embarked on our adventure with the Sub-Global Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2002, we already had a mandate to think about small islands in peril or under pressure. However, it needs to be borne in mind that our mandate was generated by the proximity of a specific group of small island communities to the location of marine biodiversity values that were the principal focus of concern to the other parties engaged in a project funded by the Global Environment Facility. So the islanders had to be encountered as a group of actors whose existing livelihood strategies were more or less of a threat to these biodiversity values, and who might or might not be persuaded to adjust these strategies in order to reduce the threat that they posed
How April Salumei Became the REDD Queen
No full textThe Papua New Guinea Forest Authority (PNGFA) maintains a database containing all of the forest areas that have ever been designated as potential logging concessions by means of agreements between their customary owners and the national government or the former colonial administration. In a version of this database that dates to the end of 2011, there are 314 such areas, covering a total of 10,953,897 hectares, which is almost one quarter of PNG�s total land area. Most of the agreements had �expired�, which means that the areas in question had almost certainly been logged at some time in the previous 50 years; many were �current�, which means that logging operations were probably ongoing; and a few were under dispute. But one area stands out from all the rest. The 521,500 hectares that comprise the April Salumei forest area in East Sepik Province are the site of the only �REDD+ Pilot Project� (GPNG 2012a, Appendix 4). This chapter will seek to explain how this particular forest area came to acquire this special status
Nathan Filer and Agata Vitale
No full textWhat can writers and teachers of Creative Writing learn from psychiatry, neuroscience, and other medical disciplines about the links between creativity and mental illness?
Nathan Filer, author of 'The Shock of the Fall', and Agata Vitale, Senior Lecturer in Abnormal/Clinical Psychology at Bath Spa University, will be in conversation with Richard Hamblyn of Birkbeck College
The Heartland: Nathan Filer in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink
No full textIn conversation with journalist and author Cathy Rentzenbrink (A Manual for Heartache), Filer talked to the audience about the psychiatric wards he once worked on to challenge their preconceptions of schizophrenia. Mixing insight from mental health experts and personal stories from people who have lived with the diagnosis, he dug beyond the myths and assumptions to offer a human perspective on this often misunderstood condition
Livelihood Dilemmas on Some Small Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
No full textThis chapter begins by exploring the way in which one group of small islands—the Bwanabwana group—became a focus of ethnographic attention during the brief period, from 2004 to 2006, when the Milne Bay Community-Based Coastal and Marine Conservation Project (MBCP) was being implemented by Conservation International. The rather limited nature of this attention and intervention is placed in the longer historical context of what is known about the lives and livelihoods of the islanders before they became the subjects of an externally funded conservation project that failed to achieve its own objectives. We then proceed to document what little we know about the further transformation of their lives and livelihoods in the wake of this failure. This leads us to reflect on some of the larger questions raised by the divergence of scientific and indigenous beliefs and practices relating to the conservation or exploitation of marine resources, both in Milne Bay Province and in other parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG)
A spotlight on mental health: Nathan Filer and Michelle Thomas in conversation
No full textNathan Filer, author of 'The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia', and journalist Michelle Thomas, author of 'My Sh*t Therapist: & Other Mental Health Stories', discussed why it is so important to question the way we talk about mental health. Bringing together insights from inside the mental health profession with stories from the people it serves, Nathan and Michelle showed the human faces that lie behind the myths and the statistics
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