CANCELLED: GRIN 2020
- Date: 06 October 2020 – 08 October 2020
- Location: Pine Lake Marina, Garden Route National Park, Sedgefield
Due to COVD-19, GRIN 2020 has been cancelled. We hope to welcome you again at GRIN 2021, provisionally scheduled for early October 2021.
Background
The Garden Route Interface and Networking (GRIN) Meeting is an annual event taking place in the Garden Route of South Africa, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in better understanding and managing (or navigating) social-ecological systems and their complex interactions and feedbacks. Three types of interfaces are of particular interest to GRIN deliberations: human-nature (social-ecological systems), theory-practice (scientists and managers), and social-natural (sciences).
Themes for GRIN 2020
The overarching theme of GRIN meetings is research and management for sustainable social-ecological systems. Examples of social-ecological systems are estuaries, protected areas, agricultural landscapes, cities, fisheries, and catchments. Presentation themes that have emerged to date and that remain relevant for future meetings are:
- Understanding people-nature connections, including benefits and conflicts;
- Strategies to promote knowledge exchange between science, policy and practice;
- Governing, monitoring, evaluating, learning and reflection for social-ecological systems;
- Resilience, adaptations and transformations in social-ecological systems;
- Responding to climate and other drivers of change; and
- Methods/approaches for studying or managing social-ecological systems, including long-term social-ecological research sites.