Panel 4 Paper 4.2: Resiliency of rural socio-ecological landscapes: Case study of the Black Volta and Weto Landscapes of Ghana

Orstin, Georges (2019) Panel 4 Paper 4.2: Resiliency of rural socio-ecological landscapes: Case study of the Black Volta and Weto Landscapes of Ghana. In: ICOMOS 2019 Advisory Committee Scientific Symposium - Rural Heritage - Landscapes and Beyond, 17 October 2019, Marrakesh, Morocco. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

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Résumé (en anglais)

In response to Ghana’s obligations under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Global Environmental Fund Small Grants Program (SGP) adopted a resilience approach to sustainability, focusing on how to build local capacity to deal with unexpected landscape change. This paper will: (1) share experience from Ghana in restoring landscapes for resilient livelihoods, (2) present methodologies on how rural landscapes can be managed to ensure a sustainable and resilient supply of essential ecosystem services, and (3) discuss the challenges that are associated with these approaches. The paper will also discuss how Ghana’s Weto and Black Volta socio-ecological production landscapes enhanced food security as a strategy, how good practices for restoring and enhancing the landscape have been demonstrated, and how cultural revival and revitalization of traditions has helped shape the landscape. Recognizing the role that local people play as external drivers of ecosystem dynamics, this approach explored ways that rural communities can interact sustainably with ecosystems while maintaining their spiritual, cultural and economic connections to the landscapes they inhabit. Using seven principles of resilience, SGP and its partners undertook a wide range of project interventions in over one-hundred rural communities aimed at creating resilience practices to strengthen the well-being of these communities and support key ecosystem functions and biodiversity conservation within a 250,000 ha landscape. The interventions had many different aims, among them to: maintain, revitalize and rebuild socio-ecological production landscapes promote food security, encourage learning systems, promote broader participation and adoption, and promote polycentric governance systems. The case study also identifies paradigm shifts in landscape management based on building a community’s capacity to ensure resilience while harnessing ecosystem services through innovation, adaptation, and governance.

Type:	Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier (Présentation orale)
Auteurs:	Auteurs E-mail Orstin, Georges NON SPECIFIÉ
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés libres:	Cultural Landscapes; Rural Heritage; Rural landscapes; social and economic aspects; culture nature integration; International organizations; UN Sustainable Development Goals; United Nations; Climate change; sustainable developement; local communitites; resilience; restoration of cultural landscapes; ecosystems; conseravation of biodiversity; project report; case studies; Ghana
Sujets:	Q. PAYSAGES > 06. Paysages agricoles E.CONSERVATION ET RESTAURATION > 06. Paysages culturels G.DEGRADATION > 03. Changement climatique H.TYPES DE PATRIMOINE > 02. Patrimoine agricole J.ECONOMIE DU PATRIMOINE > 05. Patrimoine et développement durable K.QUESTIONS LEGALES ET ADMINISTRATIVES > 05. Organisations internationales O.PATRIMOINE IMMATERIEL > 06. Savoirs et pratiques concernant la nature et l’univers P. ZONES GEOGRAPHIQUES > 02. Afrique
Nom du monument, ville, site, musée:	United Nations
Comité national de l’ICOMOS:	ICOMOS International
Comité scientifique international de l’ICOMOS:	Jardins historiques - Paysages culturels - ICOMOS-IFLA
Collections spéciales:	Scientific Symposium (ICOMOS General Assemblies)
Volume de la collection spéciale:	2019 Advisory Committee Scientific Symposium
Déposé par:	ICOMOS DocCentre
Date de dépôt:	14 novembre 2019 16:23
Dernière modification:	22 mai 2023 15:48
Références:	Brown, Jessica and Terence Hay-Edie (2014) Engaging Local Communities in Stewardship of World Heritage: A methodology based on the COMPACT experience, World Heritage Papers 40. Paris: UNESCO. Brown, Jessica, Nora Mitchell, and Michael Beresford (eds) (2005) The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, World Commission on Protected Areas. Ortsin, George (2015) ‘Ecological and Socio-Cultural Resilience in Managing Traditional Sacred Landscapes in the Coastal Savannah Ecosystem of Ghana,’ in Ken Taylor, Archer St Clair and Nora J. Mitchell (eds) Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions, London and New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 129-143.
URI:	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2241

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