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Changing the Narrative on Climate Change: From Anticipated Catastrophe to Possibilities for Advancemen

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, and it has become increasingly clear that companies have a critical role to play in mitigating its impact. While this is certainly a concern, it is also important to shift the narrative from one of fear and impending doom to one of possibility…

IECNet APAC 2023 – Changing The Narrative of Climate Change

From Anticipated Catastrophe to Possibilities for Advancement IECNet Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting (APAC) Bali - 18 May 2023 PT Gaia Eko Daya Buana (GAIA), a member of CFES

Negotiating environmental crisis? Rural-urban interface perspective on the forest ecosystem restoration project in West Java and Lombok, Indonesia

Forest ecosystem restoration (FER) projects have been encouraged as part of mitigating the environmental crisis. Applying rural-urban interface perspective, this paper views ecosystem restoration as a process of transferring the environmental burden from urban areas to the farmers who live in the upstream of watersheds. Ecosystem restoration is a techno-science effort to change the degraded…

Neoliberalism and the ambiguity of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)

This paper aim to discuss ambiguity of values, questioning ethical, power relations, moral issues which sit uncomfortably for anthropologists who take position as environmental consultant in neoliberalism economy era. A situation that requires her/him to twist the meaning of “putting the people first”, while at the same time continuously self-questioning: who has the right to…