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Data Justice in Colombia’s area-based conservation policy: the case of Other Effective Conservation Measures

Exploring justice with indigenous peoples and local communities

My research aims to explore justice in the data that informs and shapes area-based conservation policy in Colombia. This will be accomplished by analysing justice implications for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) living in areas prioritised for conservation and consequently declared protected areas or recognised as Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs) in response to the global agreement to protect 30% of the Earth’s terrestrial and marine areas by 2030 (30×30).

I will concentrate on two regions of Colombia that hold global significance as biodiversity hotspots: the Tropical Andes and the Choco-Magdalena region. These areas have a historical presence of indigenous, Afro-descendant, and campesino groups with varying degrees of legal recognition and land tenure rights. Through a qualitative comparative analysis of cases in protected areas and OECMs in each of these regions, my objective is to examine the varying degrees of recognition of IPLCs in setting conservation priorities, their participation in governance and decision-making, and the distributional consequences of introducing area-based conservation measures from the emerging field of data justice in biodiversity conservation (Pritchard at al., 2022).

Valeria Zapata-Giraldo

PhD Researcher

This project is an Advanced Fellowship funded by the European Union (ERC, CONDJUST, 101054259). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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