The Nobel Prize in Economic Policy and inspiring COMET-LA, Elinor Ostrom, died after fighting against cancer on June 12, 2012 at the age of 78. The COMET-LA members are deeply touched by his loss.

The day of her death, the last article of Professor Ostrom, "Green from the Grassroots",was published by Project Syndicate.

May 8 and 9, Maria Adelaida Farah, Maya and Diana Evelyn Garrido Pontificia Javeriana University, visited the city of Buenaventura, to meet their partners at the field level.

COMET-LA E-Newsletters Nº 1 (Jul-12)
Important progress of the project during the last six months.

IHDP announces the topic of its second writing contest for the next issue of the DIMENSIONS magazine : The human dimension of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
(Spain, Jul 25th)

In the magazine of the University of Cordoba TRUCO, refers to the COMET-LA project, helping to the diffusion ofprojectamong students, researchers and thegeneralUniversity Community.

During the meeting we will work with local communities in workshops to characterize the situation of socio-ecological systems in each case of study.

Prioritiesof project COMET-LA forthree cases studieshave been presented and given the approval intheVWorld Conservation Congress. This will shed light to the environmental issue at the three countries and will put more preassure to solving it.

Scientistsandlocalcommunitiesanalyze the relationshipbetween natural resourcesandthepeople from the territoryto identifysustainablemanagement models.

Here you can download the news semiannual Newsletter No. 7 (July-September 2012) of Ce IUCN and know the important progress of the project during the past six months.

noticia_cristinajulio_septiembre2012.pdf

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