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PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and sustainable development topics, enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration.

PANORAMA allows practitioners to share and reflect on their experiences, increase recognition for successful work, and to learn with their peers how similar challenges have been addressed around the globe.

The Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (SGNP) was established in 2013, becoming Spain’s newest national park. At 34,000 hectares stretching across the regions of Madrid and Castilla y León, it is also the second most visited national park in Spain (almost 3 million visitors per year). There are a great variety of local stakeholders engaged in diverse activities such as outdoor sports, livestock farming, conservation, education and research. These multiple and sometimes competing uses and values create social tensions around how the park should be governed. Given intersecting governing competences, multiple uses, and high visitation rate, management is complex.

This webinar will introduce to the participants the SGNP PANORAMA solution and will present a set of tools to identify, compare and balance different visions, preferences, and tensions for protected areas management and power relations between stakeholders in order to move towards better social engagement in conservation governance.

Agenda:

- Welcome remarks and introduction to PANORAMA (10 min)

- Presentation of the ENVISION Project (10 min)

- The SGNP PANORAMA Solution (15 min)

- Local knowledge and values (10 min)

- Future scenarios for park management (10 min)

- Power dynamics and engagement in collective action (10 min)

- Questions and Answers (25 min)

Speakers:

• Cécile Fattebert - Programme Officer, Solutions, IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme
• Christopher M Raymond – Coordinator of the ENVISION project, Professor of Sustainability Science at the University of Helsinki and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• María Dolores López Rodríguez – Postdoctoral researcher – ENVISION, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Miguel Ángel Cebrián-Piqueras – Postdoctoral Researcher at ENVISION and Chair of Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems, Gottingen University, Germany
• Veronica Lo – ENVISION Project Manager and Researcher, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Alberto Arroyo Schnell (moderator) – Senior Policy Manager, IUCN European Regional Office

This event is part of Vital Sites: The Journey to Marseille, a series of online events hosted by IUCN and the World Commission on Protected Areas in the run-up to the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2021 in Marseille, France. Vital Sites offers our community the chance to highlight stories, expert opinions, and case studies on the importance of protected and conserved areas, from around the world. Learn more here.

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