New members for advisory boards

The EC funded CONDJUST project at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, has the ambitious aim of creating a new research field, Conservation Data Justice, that bridges three distinct areas of enquiry: conservation prioritisation, political ecology and Data Justice. The former uses data which risk marginalising rural peoples. The latter does not yet examine conservation data. Meanwhile political ecologists do not yet consider Data Justice approaches when tackling conservation prioritisation. CONDJUST will interrogate conservation data and models, and explore the epistemic communities producing them, to develop new theories of socially just, data-driven conservation. It will challenge the colonising tendencies of prioritisation work and seek decolonising alternatives. The project has clear conceptual and practical links with the TROPIBIO project. These links have been further strengthened by Richard Ladle, the ERA Chair, joining the advisory board of the CONDJUST project, and Professor Dan Brockington, PI for the CONDJUST project joining the TROPIBIO ERA Chair Board. Professor Brockington is a world leader in sustainable development in Africa and is one of Europe’s top political ecologists. It is planned that the links between  these two projects, CONDJUST and TROPIBIO, will be further strengthened by reciprocal visits in 2023.

ERC CONDJUST project meeting.