ECO2 project: human wildlife interactions & conservation

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.

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