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How Academia Can Contribute to Biocultural Conservation

2023
The purpose of this paper is to provide analysis and recommendations on how academia can contribute to effective Biocultural Conservation in practice.  Both conceptual and practical considerations highlight empowerment and agency of local communities as “front line conservationists.”  Our fundamental premise is that academia must incorporate and ...
Chavez Michaelsen, Andrea Birgit, Saavedra, Francisca, Buschbacher, Robert   +2 more
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TOWARDS BIOCULTURAL CONSERVATION OF STINGLESS BEES IN CÓRDOBA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO

Agrociencia
Based on biological and ethnobiological data from 2020 to 2022, this study provides a base line for the biocultural conservation of stingless bees. These bees in Mexico, like many other pollinators, are facing population declines and this biological loss
N. Real-Luna, G. Alcántara-Salinas, J. Rivera-Hernández, J. Pérez-Sato, Edgardo Zalazar-Marcial, Rafael Arturo Muñoz-Márquez Trujillo   +5 more
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ECONOMIC BENEFITS FROM PROTECTED AREAS FOR BIODIVERSITY AND BIOCULTURAL CONSERVATION

Journal of Global Resources, 2022
Ecosystems support web of life by sustaining harmony in nature. When function in a right way, brings multiple ecosystem services and benefits to communities and societies. These values range from supporting, regulatory, provisional and aesthetic benefits
Mahmood Yekeh Yazdandoost
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Living Cultural Infrastructure as a Model for Biocultural Conservation: A Case Study of the Maekha Canal, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Conservation
This paper introduces and defines ‘Living Cultural Infrastructure’ as dynamic social-ecological systems where plant heritage and community knowledge are co-produced to reclaim degraded urban landscapes.
Warong Wonglangka, Samart Suwannarat, Sudarat Auttarat   +2 more
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Biocultural Conservation and Biocultural Ethics

2018
Sustainable forms of co-inhabitation in this world are not only possibilities; they are actualities. However, for their expression, it is essential to undertake a twofold task: (1) to precisely and severely sanction those agents who act guided by a self-absorbed economic interest threating the sustainability of life, and (2) to decisively defend those ...
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Biocultural Ethics: From Biocultural Homogenization Toward Biocultural Conservation

2013
The 14th Cary Conference and this book Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action reconnect the theoretical reason of ecological sciences with the practical reason of ethics to better understand and to more fairly assess the social processes of the changing world in which we co-inhabit today.
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Biocultural Conservation of Indigenous Foods and Their Potential as Alternative Food Sources in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs), Bangladesh

Ecology of Food and Nutrition
This study documented the lesser-known indigenous fruits and vegetables used in a montane area of high biocultural diversity in Bangladesh, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs), and analyzed the nutritional values of selected species.
M. Hoque, S. Uddin, Imam Hossen, Hurenaz Rayana Ahmed, J. Stepp, M. Faruque   +5 more
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Biocultural conservation in the sacred forests of Odisha, India

Environmental Conservation, 2020
SummaryBiocultural and indigenous approaches to conservation, such as the sacred forests of India, are increasingly being recognized and valued. At these sites, the ecological aspects as well as the local community management and cultural significance of the landscape contribute to conservation success.
Antaryami Pradhan, Alison A Ormsby
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From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation: A Conceptual Framework to Reorient Society Toward Sustainability of Life

2018
Biocultural homogenization entails interwoven losses of native biological and cultural diversity at local, regional, and global scales. It is a driver and a product of complex and pervasive losses of biological and cultural diversity; however, it is not yet widely recognized to its full extent.
Rozzi, R., May, R., Chapin, F., Massardo, F., Gavin, M., Klaver, I., Pauchard, A., Nuñez, M., Simberloff, D.   +8 more
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Latin American Theology of Liberation and Biocultural Conservation

2018
The theology of liberation emerged specifically as a theology for Latin America. It broke with ages-old ways of doing and being by giving voice and visibility to the poor and indigenous people long silenced and made invisible by official doctrine and ecclesiology.
Roy H. May, Janet W. May
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