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Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Patterns of biological diversity have been shaped by cultural practices in the past, while in turn, cultures and languages have evolved in close interaction with local species and ecosystems. However, in the Anthropocene, human activities are putting increasingly diverse pressures on ecosystems and cultures, resulting in accelerating threat ...
Bernd Lenzner +4 more
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The effects of rapid urbanization on forest landscape connectivity in Zhuhai city, China [PDF]
, 2018 Urban forests can provide the necessary ecosystem services for their residents and play an important part in improving the urban environment. Forest landscape connectivity is a vital indicator reflecting the quality of the ecological environment and ...
Cui, Nan +4 more
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Ecology and SocietyThe Values Assessment (VA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) highlights that contemporary political decisions prioritize economic values of nature while neglecting aesthetic, ecological, and ...
Alejandra Tauro, Ricardo Rozzi
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Food System Transformation: Integrating a Political-Economy and Social-Ecological Approach to Regime Shifts. [PDF]
, 2020 Sustainably achieving the goal of global food security is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The current food system is failing to meet the needs of people, and at the same time, is having far-reaching impacts on the environment and ...
Biggs, R. O. +4 more
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KnE Social SciencesThis study is part of the Faculty of Languages and Arts’ second-year research project in partnership with International Animal Rescue (IAR). The major goal was to raise conservation awareness among the local people dwelling in the sanctuary region of ...
Eva Leiliyanti +3 more
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Systems of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships: Across time, place, language and culture
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In the face of large‐scale marine environmental challenges, solutions that meaningfully capture the complexity of socio‐cultural and economic factors contributing to such issues—and their solutions—are urgently needed. This scoping review explores examples of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships to inform the conceptual underpinning and ...
Kianna M. Gallagher +3 more
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause +5 more
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Land, 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
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FACETSIndigenous-led conservation is as an effective and just alternative to state-led approaches, such as parks and protected areas, which can displace and dispossess Indigenous Peoples from their traditional lands and territories.
J. Lukawiecki +3 more
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Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2018 Indigenous peoples’ roles in conservation are important because they offer alternate perspectives and knowledge centred on the quality of the human–environment relationship.
Phil O'B. Lyver +15 more
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