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Traditional knowledge and biocultural diversity

2017
This chapter acknowledges the interrelations between humans and biodiversity in Southeast Asia throughout history to the present day. Humans are entirely dependent on nature, specifically biodiversity, for a number of utilitarian purposes: foods, fibers, medicines, building materials, biotechnologies, and other things. Pfeiffer et al.
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Governing biocultural diversity in mosaic landscapes

2012
Biocultural diversity is reflected in the existence of mosaic landscapes in which multifunctional land use offers scope for ecologically balanced and economically productive land-use patterns. Bioculturally diverse mosaic landscapes are historically shaped by people who have developed a strong sense of belonging and a deep attachment to their living ...
van Oosten, C.J., Hijweege, W.L.
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The Politics of Making Biocultural Diversity

2012
How is the concept of “biocultural diversity” created through transnational encounters? How does it move throughout the world and possibly gain traction, and yet transform itself, in a bewildering number of countries and contexts? This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand ...
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Biocultural Diversity for Sustainable Ecological, Cultural and Sacred Landscapes: The Biocultural Landscape Approach

2013
The interactions between natural, cultural and spiritual components of landscape, and the values that people associate with them, are key elements to landscape research based on both ecological and cultural principles. The understanding of these interactions and values is an essential prerequisite for the healthy and sustainable management of our ...
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BIOCULTURAL LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY SHAPED BY AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS [PDF]

, 2022
Carrière, Stéphanie M., Randriambanona, Herizo, Labeyrie, Vanesse, Hervé, Dominique, Mariel, Juliette, Razanaka, Samuel, Randriamalala, Josoa Ramarolanonana   +6 more
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Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere

2012
This article examines the practice of mapping biocultural diversity. The practice has been criticised for foregrounding conservation rather than self-determination, and preservation rather than cultural or ecological invention. While the maps succeed in depicting a global reality of biocultural diversity hotspots, they often relegate ...
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Language, multilingualism, biocultural diversity and sustainability

2016
Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
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Ecocultural or Biocultural? Towards Appropriate Terminologies in Biocultural Diversity

Biology, 2022
F Merlin Franco
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Human Biocultural Diversity

2010
Britteny M. Howell, Andrew Shooner
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Biocultural Diversity Conservation

2012
Luisa Maffi, Ellen Woodley
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