The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar in the Poverty and Environment Seminar Series on:
The Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries
Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 13.00-16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Summary of the seminar
Background
In light of weak common and centralised management regimes, under which natural resources are depleted and economic development is often disappointing, the private sector is increasingly mentioned as a potentially significant positive player in natural resource management and poverty alleviation in developing countries. The private sector is envisioned as a more effective manager and hence driver of poverty reduction through improved natural resources management. And yet, involving the private sector holds no automatic guarantees for improved resource management and equitable economic development.
The question is thus how the private sector can be a positive player?
Joshua Bishop is Chief Economist, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He is a natural resource and environmental economist whose work focuses on the interface of conservation and development. As Chief Economist, Bishop seeks to promote market-based approaches to nature conservation, while also presenting the case for conservation in economic terms. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted applied research and policy analysis on a range of topics in the economics of land use change, including studies of macro-economic policy and the environment, timber trade policy, forecasting supply and demand for forest products, valuation of non-marketed forest benefits, the economics of soil conservation, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity business. Bishop previously directed the Environmental Economics Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, worked in West Africa as a consultant economist to the EC and the World Bank, as a conservation extension agent with IUCN in Mali, and as a development volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Mali. Among many other publications, he is the co-author of the paper “Private Sector Participation in Natural Resource Management: What Relevance in Developing Countries?” (International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2007).
Rikke Jensen is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Coordinator at Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman A/S (DLH), a major timber producer and wholesaler supplying timber and timber products manufactured from sustainably produced raw materials. DLH manages 1.8 million hectare tropical forest in Africa and strives to ensure sustainable and appropriate forest management, including the protection of fauna and wildlife as well as the human rights, health and safety issues relevant for the local communities. Rikke Jensen will present the challenges and opportunities experienced by the DLH group in their direct involvement in sustainable forest management in Congo.
Thorsten Treue is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He works with decentralised forest management and forest policy in developing countries and holds extensive knowledge on high forest management in Ghana, community forestry in Nepal and participatory forest management in Tanzania. In addition, he has several years of experience as a long- and short-term consultant in forest policy and economics.
Programme
13.00-13.05 Introduction
Lotte Klinte, NIRAS
13.05-13.50 Business, the Environment and Poverty Reduction:
Do They go Together?
Joshua Bishop, Chief Economist, IUCN
13.50-14.00 Q&A
14.00-14.25 Private Sector Involvement in Forest Management
Rikke Jensen, CSR Coordinator, DLH
14.25-14.35 Q&A
14.35-14.55 Coffee Break
14.55-15.55 Plenary Discussions
Discussant: Thorsten Treue, Assistant Professor, Forest and Landscape,
University of Copenhagen
15.55-16.00 Closure of Seminar
The Poverty and Environment Seminars are an occasional series of seminars aimed at exchanging experiences and new knowledge on poverty-environment related issues. The seminars have a particular emphasis on cross-fertilization between practice, research and other forms of knowledge. The seminars are hosted by DIIS but organized by a group of practitioners and researchers working with environment and development. The seminars are funded by the Danish Development Research Network.
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Monday, 5 October 2009 at 12.00 noon. |
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