Ecological conflicts can arise, not just between the eater and the eaten, but between two species that play the same role in an ecosystem (e.g., eater vs. eater).
Saleem H. Ali is an environmental planner whose research and practice focuses on ways of resolving ecological conflicts through technical and social mechanisms, as well as exploring novel ways of peace-building between corporations, governments and communities.
Therefore sustainable practices focus on social and industrial changes, from prioritising conservation to ensuring effective processes for identifying and resolving social and ecological conflicts, including altering patterns of production and consumption.
"Madagascar," the exhibition, feels like a fantasy world, but it is a moving reminder of the ecological conflict taking place on that island.
Social media also plays a vital role in communications during a crisis such as ecological conflict, added Barbara Tucker, Leader of the Africa Forest Communicators Network and representative of Working for Forests, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa.
Socio-ecological conflicts concentrate on access to resources, affordable living, and livelihood improvement.
Drawing on their experiences photographing political, social, and ecological crises and conflicts, Haviv and Kashi will share their thoughts about the possibilities of photography to effect social change.
In contrast, the integration of food and energy crop production systems at the farm to landscape scale has greater potential for ecological intensification, although conflicts with traditional nature conservation targets may arise.
For a generation now, scholars and theatre directors have probed "The Tempest" for its insights on European colonial expansion, shifting Renaissance gender roles, ecological change, and conflicting views of magic.
How we live with and design for water will be a central, defining element of this century's urbanization, establishing landscapes of hope and ecological vitality or conflict and scarcity.
Unlike McCarthy, Oates shies away from polemic but still criticises bureaucratic modern conservation and highlights the paradox of conservationists seeking to manage "small isolated places for whole suites of species with diverse and even conflicting ecological requirements, and... continually trying to arrest successional change and freeze a place into a time capsule".
