Areas of Focus

The INSAKA Symposium advances the understanding of the new ways of conceptualizing resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems through research and principles and best practices for management and policy in the following categories: 

• Protected area management and planning

• Community Based Natural Resource Management

• Gender/Equity

• Tourism management

• Policy/governance

• Benefit sharing

• Capacity building

• Human-wildlife interactions

• Climate change and disturbance response

• Livelihoods and sustainable development