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The Global Alliance to spare water from armed conflict: An innovative Tool for Peacebuilding  (20th of June)   Outline of the Session Looking at the protection of freshwater and water, sanitation and health services (WASH in conflict and post-conflict situations, the panel will discuss the importance/role of a global alliance to spare water from armed conflicts. The alliance aims to galvanise efforts that will ultimately safeguard the life and human dignity of civilian populations. In particular, the Session will focus on analysing the gaps we need to address to promote and ensure respect for international law protecting freshwater, water-related installations and other essential services collated under the Geneva Principles on the protection of water infrastructure (Geneva Principles), the International Law Commission’s Principles on protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts (PERAC Principles) and the ICRC Guidelines on the protection of the natural environment in armed conflict. Speakers will also address potential ways forward to ensure a better implementation of existing rules and possible innovative solutions to protect freshwater and WASH services from the consequences of armed conflicts. The panel will also highlight the importance of integrating environmental peacebuilding within the triple nexus framework to increase resilience in times of conflict and post-conflict situations and to preserve human dignity. for this discussion we have the pleasure to have the contributions of key experts: -Erika Weinthal, Duke University -Wim Zwijnenburg, PAX -Tobias Von Lossow, Cliengaendael institute/IHE Delft -Tadesse Kebebew, Geneva Water Hub -Tanja Miskova, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia -Michiko Fukase, UNICEF

More from the #TAH archive: the Environmental History issue featuring an essay on how to include environmental history into your history courses and a state of the field essay on where the field of environmental history is headed. https://ow.ly/gLQz50PBREC

📣 Geoscience Insights with #IEEEGRSS 🌍EO4SECURITY launched in 2024 to combat environmental crimes effectively. Read more in the #IEEEGRSS eNewsletter👉 https://shorturl.at/prxKZ

Less water available when more is needed. Can we manage our way our of it?

A new article is out: Redefining the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources from a Geographical Perspective: A Case Study of Transboundary Aquifers. https://lnkd.in/ezx-CwGZ

NEW! GBLA Resource: “Learning About Land Trusts” Meet Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Ph.D, (Afro-Caribbean, Eastern European), a professor of Native American studies , the Yocha Dehe Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies, and the Associate Director of Environmental and Climate Justice for the Institute of the Environment at UC Davis. In this video clip from our newest Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements #GBLA discussion, “Learning About Land Trusts”, Beth Rose explains how land trusts in the United States have shifted from being historically created  by wealthy private organizations and landowners to a vehicle for justice, access, stewardship, and ultimately #Land #Back. Visit Redbud’s YouTube channel or GBLA Resource Database to view “Learning About Land Trusts” and learn more about: *How land trusts benefit Native peoples *How land trusts are a vehicle for Land Back *The role of Native and non Native partnerships in land trusts *Challenges of land trusts and ways to mitigate these challenges #GBLA #LandTrusts #LandBack #IndigenousRights #CommunityStewardship #Partnerships #EnvironmentalJustice #NativePeoples #GBLAdiscussion #ResourceDatabase #SocialJustice #LandConservation #CulturalHeritage #Equity #EnvironmentalStewardship #Collaboration #Empowerment #UCDavis #LearningTogether

#Water #Scarcity is No Longer Just a Crisis: It’s a Permanent Condition Only .5 percent of water on #Earth is usable, and access to that is diminishing because of #climate #change. One quarter of the people on Earth don’t have access to #safe #drinking water and nearly half don’t have basic #sanitation. It’s not a problem for some places far away and unknown. This is a challenge for #Texas. Fortunately, smart and dedicated people are working on it, the Texas Legislature has invested for it and now it’s up to the voters to ratify it at the ballot box in November.   Rosario Sanchez, a senior research scientist at the TWRI Policy and Research and an associate faculty member of the Water Management and Hydrological Sciences at @/school/texas-a&m-university has been working toward the proper #management of water resources along the #US-#Mexico border. Texas 2036 Texas Water Development Board Texas City Management Association Texas Commission on Environmental Quality https://lnkd.in/eAjAsd9Q

I gave this talk recently: “Learning to fall in love with the land: Human-Nature Reconnection & Rewilding Environmental Education”. Constructive criticism welcome! Summary: - Viewing the natural world through a purely analytical lens, or through the lens of a ‘museum goer’ or tourist, creates conditions for separation and disconnection. In contrast, wilderness awareness educator Jon Young identifies eight attributes of people who experience deep nature connection: presence, happiness, vitality, focus, empathy, vision, aliveness, and love. - ‘Pathways to nature connectedness’ (sensory contact, emotion, meaning, beauty and compassion) can help to mend the human–nature relationship (Richardson et al. 2020). Some core routines for deep nature connection include, among others, giving thanks, sit spot, expanding our senses, and ‘catching’ one another’s stories (Young et al. 2008). - I share some ways I am incorporating relationality - connectedness to nature and to each other - in my teaching. - Healing is needed among all peoples to recover from the traumas of separation from land and land-based lifeways. Efforts to connect to land must not perpetuate harm, appropriate culture, nor support further marginalization or erasure of Indigenous peoples. #natureconnection #landconnection #reconnection #environmentaleducation https://lnkd.in/ggc-fwVk

Other countries have environmental learning strategies for public education. What’s holding Canada back? Read the paper: Toward a National Framework for Environmental Learning and give your input in the survey https://ow.ly/EOtJ50RARq3

Recently the European Union passed #EU #nature #restoration #law which aims at recovery measures on 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, rising to cover all degraded ecosystems by 2050. My comments on the law was published in #UCD #annual #magazine #UCD_Connections. While providing my views on whether the nature restoration can be economically positive for small scale farmers I highlighted that our generation is the last best hope of the earth. If we do not act now, probably the humankind will become extinct in coming years.