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Framing the relationship between people and nature in the context of European conservation [PDF]

, 2015
A key controversy in conservation is the framing of the relationship between people and nature. The extent to which the realms of nature and human culture are viewed as separate (dualistic view) or integrated is often discussed in the social sciences. To
Agnoletti, Apollonio, Bauer, Bekoff, Bendrey, Birks, Blanco, Boitani, Castree, Chapron, Cronon, Descola, Descola, Descola, Donlan, Ellen, García, Ghosal, Gunther, Halada, Haraway, Hobbs, Hodder, Ingold, Isselstein, Jones, Kerley, Kirby, Knight, Latour, Latour, Linnartz, Linnell, Liu, Lorimer, López-Bao, Mace, Maffi, Marris, Martin, Marvier, Mattisson, Milton, Monbiot, Mysterud, Navarro, Ordiz, Phalan, Queiroz, Redpath, Robbins, Rubenstein, Schwartz, Selva, Terborgh, Treves, Tsiafouli, Vera, Vos, Watson   +59 more
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Mexico’s Biocultural Diversity in Peril

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2020
Introduction: Places with high species diversity have high linguistic diversity, whereas areas with low species diversity tend to have low linguistic diversity. Objective: To characterize the intriguing relationship between biological and cultural diversity, a correlation that has been discussed at a global scale, but here tested for the first time in ...
Vidal, Omar, Brusca, Richard-C.
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The Right to the Sustainable Smart City [PDF]

, 2019
Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructures. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits ...
Baggio Aline, Baibarac Corelia, Campbell-Dollaghan Kelsey, Cork Tristan, Harvey David, Karakasa Yoshifuyu, Khaorapapong Nanda, Minton Anna, Shenker Jack, Toland Alexandra Regan, Wolff Annika   +10 more
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Bird conservation status and cultural values in Indigenous Mexican communities: towards a bioculturally informed conservation policy

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background We summarize comparative ethnoornithological data for ten Mexican Indigenous communities, an initial step towards a comprehensive archive of the avian diversity conserved within Mexico’s Indigenous territories. We do so by counting highlighted
Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Eugene S. Hunn, María Elena Ibáñez-Bravo, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Noé Flores-Hernández, Juan Antonio Pérez-Sato, Natalia Real-Luna, Rafael Arturo Muñoz-Márquez Trujillo, Diana Lope-Alzina, Jaime Ernesto Rivera-Hernández   +9 more
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'Workshop for Nagoya Protocol and Plant Treaty National Focal Points in Latin America and the Caribbean’ [PDF]

, 2020
The capacity-building Workshop for National Focal Points in Latin America and the Caribbean on Mutually Supportive Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, was held 25-28 ...
Argumedo, A., Ellis, D., Garforth, K., Gullotta, G., Halewood, Michael, Toledo, A.   +5 more
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Stingless bee keeping: Biocultural conservation and agroecological education

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionStingless bee breeding, also called Meliponiculture, has existed for thousands of years in Mesoamerica among a variety of rural and indigenous cultures.
Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya, Ulises Rodríguez Robles, María Luisa Martínez Gutiérrez, Guelmy A. Chan Mutul, Teresita Avilez López, Helda Morales, Bruce G. Ferguson, Jorge A. Mérida Rivas   +7 more
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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., Drimie, S., Maciejewski, K., Pereira, L. M., Tonissen, P. B.   +4 more
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An ethic of co-inhabitation for the biocultural conservation of rivers

Naturaleza y Sociedad: Desafíos Medioambientales, 2022
During the 20th century, numerous rivers were pumped, channeled, stratified, dammed, and diverted. Diverse water courses and bodies (rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and aquifers) were transformed for agricultural irrigation and energy ...
Ricardo Rozzi
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Why the ongoing occupation of Ukraine matters to ethnobiology

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine investigate the continuously changing complex and inextricable relations among culture, nature, and health. Since the emergence of modern ethnobiology a few decades ago, its essence and mission have been the study of ...
Nataliya Stryamets, Julia Prakofjewa, Giulia Mattalia, Raivo Kalle, Baiba Pruse, Dauro M. Zocchi, Renata Sõukand, Andrea Pieroni, Michele F. Fontefrancesco   +8 more
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Perceptions and Revitalization of Local Ecological Knowledge in Four Schools in Yasin Valley, North Pakistan

Mountain Research and Development, 2022
Mountains are often recognized as sites of biocultural diversity, and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an integral part of community life. Rapid cultural standardization and urbanization have threatened biocultural diversity, posing threats to LEK in ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Gabriele Volpato, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Andrea Pieroni   +3 more
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