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Ecology and Society, 2023 Biocultural homogenization is a wicked problem that implies the loss of biological and cultural diversity at different scales. It is promoted by globalized one-dimensional ways of thinking that ignore the biophysical and cultural singularities of the ...
Manuela Méndez-Herranz +3 more
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L’agro-pastoralisme mobile des agdals du Haut Atlas
Perifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia, 2013 Cette étude décrit l’agro-pastoralisme mobile des Aït Ikiss, communauté du Haut Atlas de Marrakech. La transhumance sur laquelle se base cet agro-pastoralisme mobile des Aït Ikiss est particulièrement imbriquée au sein d’un ...
Pablo Dominguez
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Perifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia, 2012 Basant-se en una discussió existent des de molt temps ençà en les ciències socials, universalisme vs relativisme, el present article exposa els efectes que ha generat un tipus d’orientació universalista (filosofia de la Revolució Verda) respecte la ...
Damià Vinyet Soley +1 more
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Oryx, 2023 Biological and cultural diversity are inextricably linked and rapidly eroding worldwide. As a response, many conservation efforts foster synergies between cultural and biological diversity agendas through biocultural approaches.
Miquel Torrents-Ticó +4 more
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Online and offline representations of biocultural diversity: A political ecology perspective on nature-based tourism and indigenous communities in the Brazilian Pantanal [PDF]
, 2018 The concept of biocultural diversity is confronted with contemporary changes that impact on local communities, such as globalization and digital transformations.
Arts, K +5 more
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Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage
Geographies, 2022 The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity is exemplified by the new conservation paradigm of biocultural heritage. We seek to clarify obsolescent notions of nature, whereby cultural construction and identity markers of mountain communities
Fausto O. Sarmiento +3 more
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Community Self-Organisation from a Social-Ecological Perspective: ‘Burlang Yatra’ and Revival of Millets in Odisha (India) [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I focus on the revival of an Indigenous community seed festival known locally as Burlang Yatra (‘Indigenous Biodiversity Festival’) in the district of Kandhamal in Odisha (India).
Saxena, Lopamudra Patnaik
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Mountains and Biocultural Diversity
Mountain Research and Development, 2005 Abstract The importance of montane regions for biological diversity is well known. We also know that mountains contain a great deal of cultural diversity, despite the relatively small number of people living in mountains compared to other regions. What has been less explored is the interrelationship between mountains, biological diversity, and cultural
John Richard Stepp +2 more
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Global Sustainability, 2019 Nature and culture are intricately linked and the rapid loss of both biological and cultural diversity around the globe has led to increasing concerns about its effects on sustainability.
Juliana Merçon +6 more
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Bonplandia, 2020 The study of homegardens is an important subject in ethnobotany, as they are the expression of local botanical knowledge, and preserve significant biocultural diversity.
Ana Paula Castello +2 more
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