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The cycle of BiodiverCities conferences has been an interesting tool contributing to exchanges between researchers and practitioners, and between practitioners themselves. However, it was not enough to build long-lasting links or bring out common projects. Practitioners have often been considered as objects of research, or even perceived as hindering research, which is the argument of the second section of this chapter. Why this—if not total, at least dominant—failure? To what extent are researchers responsible? Why did practitioners not show more interest in collaboration? Was it the format or the temporality of the research that did not manage to interest managers? Or are the human and social sciences still not recognised as sufficiently important in the management of national parks with their primary biodiversity conservation objectives, and where human presence is still taboo? All these questions are dealt with in the third section.
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BiodiverCities Paris 2010: “Enjeux and stratégies de gestion durable des aires protégées urbaines and périurbaines au Nord and au Sud”, in partnership with Sciences Po-Paris and ONF Agence Fontainebleau.
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BiodiverCities Rio de Janeiro 2012: “Les aires protégées urbaines: enjeux, acteurs, espaces”, in partnership with the Tijuca National Park, the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical University of Rio.
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BiodiverCities Le Cap 2014: “Rescaling Natural Parks and the City”, in partnership with the Table Mountain National Park, the City of Cape Town and the French Institute of South Africa.
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BiodiverCities Marseille 2015: “Parks naturels: construire une nature urbaine?”, in partnership with the National Park of Port-Cros, the National Park of Calanques and the cities of Hyères and Marseille.
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The National Park of Réunion Island (France), seeking to exchange experiences on urban issues, learnt in 2016 from Cape Town practitioners that they could engage with their French counterparts from Calanques and Port-Cros, who had taken part in the fourth BiodiverCities encounter in Marseille.
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The Director of the Nairobi National Park, UNPEC BiodiverCities Conference, Cape Town, April 7, 2014.
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The Head of Environmental Management, City of Cape Town, at UNPEC BiodiverCities Conference, Cape Town, April 7, 2014.
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The total budget of the UNPEC project was €250,000 and was to be divided over four and a half years between 25 people.
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Hyman, G., Landy, F., Bruno-Lézy, L. (2018). Afterword: Seen Through the Eyes of Researchers, Are Practitioners Partners, Research Objects or Hurdles?. In: Landy, F. (eds) From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8462-1_14
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