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Unraveling reciprocal relations between farm trees and people for biocultural conservation in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone

Ecosystems and People
A deeper understanding of human-nature reciprocity is required for transformative change to safeguard biodiversity. In the face of widespread loss of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services, evidence on how farm trees provide multiple benefits to ...
Khant Sandar Htet, Laura Kmoch, Tobias Plieninger   +2 more
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
Maria Tengö, Isabel Díaz‐Reviriego, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Pernilla Malmer, Wilfredo V. Alangui, Puaʻala Pascua, Prasert Trakansuphakon, Rosemary Hill   +7 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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Biocultural diversity in the traditional landscape of Vallecorsa

Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022
AbstractIn Italy, agricultural intensification and the abandonment of rural areas since the 1960s has led to a transformation of the traditional agricultural landscape, bringing with it a series of environmental and socio-economic issues and problems such as those linked to hydrogeological instability, a reduction in biocultural diversity and migration
Giorgia De Pasquale, Sagliocco Livia
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Narratives of ‘home landscapes’ guide stewardship practices among Swedish forest owners

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Production forests play an important role in addressing many of our current sustainability challenges. Therefore, how these forests are managed and what motivates the people who are managing them are important for sustainability. 47 per cent of forests in Europe are privately owned.
Katja Malmborg, Johan Enqvist, Erik Andersson, Lisen Schultz   +3 more
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Botanical diversity as a reservoir of resilience: The emergence of new uses of wild plants under acute food shortages in Karamoja, Uganda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agro‐pastoralist communities in Karamoja, Uganda, face food insecurity driven by climate variability, declining livestock numbers and crop failures. In this context, local ethnobotanical knowledge systems play a central role in subsistence and adaptation.
Emiel De Meyer, Emmanuel Emaruk, Simon Omeri, Adam Leese, Claudias N. Lorika, Thomas Achilla, Vivian Lomele, Pablo Manzano, Rainer W. Bussmann   +8 more
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Biocultural restoration in Hawaiʻi also achieves core conservation goals

Ecology and Society, 2020
Biocultural approaches to restoration have demonstrated multiple benefits for human communities, but the ecological benefits and trade-offs involved have received little attention.
Kawika B. Winter, Tamara Ticktin, Shimona A. Quazi   +2 more
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Indigenous and local knowledge in biocultural approaches to sustainability: a review of the literature in Spanish

Ecosystems and People, 2023
Biocultural approaches are gaining attention for coping with current sustainability challenges. These approaches recognize that biological and cultural diversity are inextricably linked.
Leonie Burke, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, David P. M. Lam, Jan Hanspach   +3 more
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The value of regeneration

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Millions of hectares of rangelands have been subject to degeneration through overgrazing, agricultural expansion, urbanisation and afforestation. Countering this, regeneration is a natural process whereby rangeland ecosystems revive themselves.
Ethan Gordon, Ada P. Smith, Jennifer Hodbod, Hannah Gosnell, Austin Himes, Matías Hargreaves‐Méndez   +5 more
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A systematic review of biocultural innovation: Challenges, potentialities and agendas for environmental futures

Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development
Biocultural diversity and heritage are areas threatened by the implications of the development agenda. They study the interdependent relationships between people and the biodiversity of Indigenous and Local community's territories.
Juan David Reina Rozo
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