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ECO2 Project



Beyond Anthropocene Pressures: convivial conservation integrating ECOlogy and ECOnomics along the Nile and its wetlands (Eco2)

This INREF programme, ECO2, investigates, analyses, and tests key ideas for integrating ecology and socio-economics and the possibilities for convivial conservation using distinct cases in Egypt, a country where Anthropocene pressures have become extreme in many places. Egypt completely depends on the River Nile, but intensifying land-use change and other anthropogenic pressures render the possibilities for long-term sustainable forms of development and conservation increasingly problematic. By combining the expertise from different disciplines across the different natural and social sciences, ECO2 will deliver new knowledge based on primary research and use this to investigate ideas related to different convivial conservation and development trajectories in three important cases along the Nile and its wetlands.





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This project is funded by the INREF program of Wageningen University and interdisciplinary cooperation among several research groups at Wageningen University and Egyptian partners.


Currently, 5 PhD projects run within this project:

Khaled Noby

Haitham Mossad

Nada el Shanawany

Mohammed Ezat

Mahmoud Nady


Wageningen University Groups and supervisors:

Behavioural Ecology: Marc Naguib, Sjouke Kingma, Lysanne Snijders, Alexander Kotrschal

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: Frank van Langevelde, Fred de Boer, Anouschka Hof, Ignas Heitkonig

Development Economics: Erwin Bulte

Sociology of Development and Change: Bram Büscher

Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing: Sytze de Bruin




cop27



Movie on human wildlife conference as presented at Cop27
(Khaled Noby)



media



News coverage in Egypt on bird hunting topic as addressed in Eco2 project together with NCE Egypt (Khaled Noby)




Impact activities highlighted on
the Wageningen University website



Eco2 project at Cop27 with NCE Egypt (Khaled Noby)


Intranet news coverage of Eco 2 project on bird hunting


Eco2 research presented at the Wageningen Integration for Impact Event





People involved



Marc Naguib

Behavioural Ecology



Sjouke Kingma

Behavioural Ecology



Lysanne Snijders

Behavioural Ecology



Alexander Kotrschal

Behavioural Ecology



Frank van Langevelde

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation



Fred de Boer

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation



Anouschka Hof

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation



Ignas Heitkonig

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation



Erwin Bulte

Development Economics



Bram Büscher

Sociology of Development and Change



Sytze de Bruin

Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing



publications



  • Xu Y, Green AJ, Mundkur T, Hagemeijer W, Mossad H, Prins HHT, de Boer WF. (2022). Beyond Site-Specific Criteria: Conservation of Migratory Birds and Their Habitats from a Network Perspective. Diversity. 14:353.
  • Price C., Ezat M.A., Hanzen C., Downs C. T. (2022). Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa. Behavioural Processes, 203, 104772.




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