Panel 3 Constructing resilience: The entangled dimensions of nature and culture in agricultural landscapes and waterscapes

Traditional practices of cultivating and gathering of food in rural areas embody the entangled dimensions of nature and culture. These traditional landscapes and waterscapes, living repositories of bio-cultural diversity, have much to teach us about resilience. This is manifest in the intangible and tangible cultural heritage associated with these places, including the physical shaping of the landscape and water systems; their complex systems of traditional knowledge, governance and management practices; and their sacred dimensions. This workshop will build on sessions recently convened within the Culture-Nature/Nature-Culture Journeys ICOMOS Scientific Symposium (2017) and the IUCN World Conservation Congress (2016), which provided an opportunity to share experience from diverse regions on the theme of constructing resilience.In this session we will take the dialogue further, and will explore how frameworks being developed through global dialogues (such as the indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes used by the International Partnership of the Satoyama Initiative, or IPSI) can contribute to strategies for sustaining rural landscapes in diverse settings. The workshop discussion will be anchored by three case-study papers from the Asia-Pacific region: Participatory planning and monitoring of protected landscapes: a case-study of an indigenous rice paddy landscape in Taiwan –Kuang-Chung Lee Nature, agriculture and rural resilience: Interdependencies between protected areas and Satoyama/Satoumi landscapes in rural areas of Japan – Maya Ishizawa Māori ancestral landscapes and the celebration of prowess in cultivation and resource gathering: digesting natural heritage as an expression of culture – Xavier Forde As a respondent, George Ortsin will bring a perspective from West Africa, reflecting on his experience working in rural areas of Ghana, including with the COMDEKS project (part of IPSI), which is supporting the resilience of socio-ecological production landscapes in rural Ghana. Through case-study experience and facilitated dialogue participants will gain a better understanding of resilience in the context of socio-ecological systems for food cultivation and gathering