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Governance and infrastructure as pillars of performance: A socio‐ecological analysis of Ethiopian botanical gardens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
While botanical gardens are often perceived merely as recreational spaces for a weekend walk, in the Global South, they are true lifelines for nature and for the people who depend on it. Our research in Ethiopia explored what actually keeps these gardens running long‐term.
Getahun Hassen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nurturing biocultural memory during crisis: a methodological approach and its influence on wetland birds and community conservation in Chile

open access: yesEcology and Society
During social-ecological crises, face-to-face, in-person biocultural conservation fieldwork can be hindered or halted, jeopardizing research continuity and impacting researchers’ ability to fulfill responsibilities to local communities.
J. Cristóbal Pizarro   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pastoral Stone Enclosures as Biological Cultural Heritage: Galician and Cornish Examples of Community Conservation

open access: yesLand, 2020
The role and importance of a built structure are closely related to the surrounding area, with interest in a given area having a concomitant effect on the relevance given to the constructions it may hold. Heritage interest in landscape areas has grown in
Richard Grove   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural Value of Semi-Natural and Human-Conditioned Habitats in Slovakia

open access: yesLand
Biocultural landscapes emerge from long-term interactions between human societies and ecological systems, yet integrated assessments of biological and cultural values remain limited, particularly within conservation policy frameworks such as Natura 2000.
Csaba Kulcsár, Jana Špulerová
doaj   +1 more source

Grape (Vitis L.) biodiversity: Historical uses, current status, and future potential

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Grapes (Vitis L. ‐ Vitaceae) are among the most important fruit crops globally, consumed in the form of wine, fresh fruit, raisins, and in many products. Complex and fascinating biocultural processes underpin the crop, with a remarkable assemblage of species comprising grapevines and with heterogeneous viticultural practices and rapidly advancing new ...
Colin K. Khoury   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES AND THEIR BIOCULTURAL CONSERVATION INTERFACES [PDF]

open access: yesEthics & the Environment, 2007
This article discusses future environmental philosophies and their biocultural conservation interfaces.
openaire   +1 more source

Conservation in Kansas

open access: yes, 2011
Report covers Fiscal Year 2010 and 2011, with planned activities listed for Fiscal Year 2012.<br>Continues title: Soil conservation in Kansas which previously was continued by: Conservation in ...
Kansas. State Conservation Commission
core   +1 more source

Biocultural Ethics for Human–River–Biosphere Co-Inhabitation

open access: yesPhilosophies
The reunification of scientific, artistic, and philosophical knowledge empowers us to rethink our relationship with nature in light of a biocultural ethic grounded in co-inhabitation among humans and other-than-human beings in shared habitats.
Ricardo Rozzi
doaj   +1 more source

Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury   +35 more
wiley   +1 more source

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