Conservation is sexy! What makes this so, and what does this make? An engagement with celebrity and the environment [PDF]
This essay offers an engagement with Daniel Brockington’s (2009) recent book Celebrity and the environment. I highlight the book’s contribution to debate regarding processes of human displacement arising through biodiversity conservation under ...
Sullivan, Sian, Sian Sullivan
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Los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales (PiCl) poseen conocimientos, prácticas y saberes ancestrales que incluyen una amplia variedad de dimensiones, entre las que se pueden destacar la espiritualidad, la biodiversidad territorial y cultural, la ...
Jeyver Rodríguez +3 more
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Asian Elephant Conservation: Too Elephantocentric? Towards a Biocultural Approach of Conservation
Drawing from the example of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) conservation in Laos, this article primarily intends to reveal the elephantocentric vision adopted by mainstream conservation project in direction to the species. In the second part, I will present some ethnographic notes collected among local population who daily live and work with ...
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ABSTRACT The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) offers strong potential for sustainable development in low‐income regions, yet its enterprises often operate with scarce resources, weak monitoring systems, and limited visibility. These constraints hinder both their capacity to demonstrate contributions to sustainable development (SD) and their own ...
Maria‐del‐Mar Magallón +1 more
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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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Future‐Proofing Natura 2000 Through a Biocultural Approach
The Natura 2000 sites of the European Union form the largest protected area network globally and are widely considered a conservation success. However, many Natura 2000 sites are not in a favorable conservation status, and support by policy and society ...
Tobias Plieninger +2 more
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Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges
Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
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Bridging different perspectives for biocultural conservation: art-based participatory research on native maize conservation in two indigenous farming communities in Oaxaca, Mexico [PDF]
Native maize conservation rests on the custody of traditional and indigenous small-scale farmers, but their traditional practices and way of life are challenged by multiple forces associated with globalization, international trade and neoliberal ...
Hausner, Vera Helen +5 more
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Abstract Contemporary conservation goals have a greater chance of success when practitioners collaborate with Indigenous communities. The importance of such collaborations has spurred calls by Western and Indigenous researchers to engage in equitable coproduction of ecological research that integrates multiple ways of knowing.
Kathleen A. Carroll +4 more
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Adaptation and biocultural conservation of traditional agroforestry systems in the Tehuacán Valley: access to resources and livelihoods strategies. [PDF]
Vázquez-Delfin P, Casas A, Vallejo M.
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