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Introducing the Rinjani Society
of Lombok for Heritage Knowledge
and Improving International
Designated Areas
We are an independent learned society based in Indonesia that
is dedicated to promoting the preservation and advancement of
knowledge on natural and human heritage, and the improvement
of the management of internationally significant sites across
the world.
Latest News
Our Latest Works
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A Critical Evaluation of Fifteen Years of Payment for Environmental Services on the Lombok Jangkok Watershed and the Case for Decommodified Watershed Governance
In 2009, a payment for environmental services scheme was established on the Jangkok watershed in Lombok. Marketed by its sponsors as a regional success story, the scheme has now operated for over fifteen years against a documented backdrop of continuing hydrological deterioration.
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Governing Environmental Services in the Rinjani Landscape
Rinjani’s most strategic environmental service is its water-regulation (hydrological) service, not ecotourism, and fiscal centralisation is producing a metabolic rift between extracted value and the ecological capacity that sustains it.
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A Hegelian Ecocentric Framework for Evaluating Deep-Seabed Mining Moratoria
This article develops a Hegelian ecocentric framework for evaluating a moratoria governance for deep-seabed mining. The contribution is a philosophically rigorous reframing of precautionary governance that resists both the technocratic optimism of the extractive lobby and the static preservationism of its opponents.
Our Key Work on the Rinjani-Lombok Multi International Designated Area
Natural Heritage
Human Heritage
Economic Prosperity