Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Research Conference Series is hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Culture and cultural heritage imbue and enrich our lives. As a global community, we are increasingly cognizant of the need to valorize, protect, manage, and sustainably utilize culture to safeguard local communities. This is evidenced through explicit mandates establishing a Cultural Working Group by the G20 nations, and the implicit place of culture in all 17 SDGs, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 30x30 target, and the UN Ocean Decade.
This workshop has the dual role of providing a broad overview of cultural attributes, including tangible, intangible, and biocultural heritage, while focusing on the Indian Ocean. The event aims to provide the infrastructure to integrate research on cultural resources into Marine Spatial Planning policy, with a focus on island communities in the Indian Ocean specifically.
As part of this conference, methods and approaches will be outlined for data gathering, alongside conceptual discussions on how to safeguard the rich cultural heritage of the region for global communities.
