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Biocultural Heritage and Rewilding Mountainous Landscapes

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Abstract This chapter explores the notion of biocultural heritage as expressed in recent policy documents and academic literature, and compares it with what occurs in the field. The analysis is located in the mountainous rewilding landscape of the Côa Valley in northeastern Portugal.
Nadia Bartolini
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Biocultural Landscapes and the Scalability of Biocultural Heritage

Journal of Latin American Geography
La perspectiva geográfica puede ayudar a resolver la actual falta de estructura en el abordaje de los distintos niveles de agregación del fenómeno biocultural. Para ello, se necesita un marco conceptual que aborde la escalabilidad del fenómeno y su correspondencia con escalas geográficas.
Cloe Xochitl Pérez-Valladares   +1 more
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Biocultural Community Protocols, Land Tenure and Biocultural Heritage

2020
Inherited from colonial times, land tenure policy in Madagascar is responsible for a profound land insecurity: customary rights over ancestral lands are not recognised; and local communities are generally unable to meet the legal requirements for land titling and end up being deprived of their lands by local notables.On the bright side, recent domestic
Rakotondrabe, Manohisoa, Girard, Fabien
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Biocultural heritage protection

2022
The session was focused on biocultural heritage and cultural landscapes, on holistic and integrated concepts between humanity and nature. The example of the landscape of the Krupa River, which is proclaimed as a cultural heritage is presented as a model of nature protection.
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Threats to cycad biocultural heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan

open access: yesPlant Species Biology
Abstract This article details the significance of Cycas revoluta in the cultural ecology of the Amami Islands, Japan. Although this plant was never domesticated, multiple lines of evidence elucidate a long history of its alimentary, ethnoecological, and symbolic saliency ...
Joshua D Englehardt   +2 more
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The interdiscipline as a tool for conservation of the biocultural heritage

2019
Durante las últimas décadas, los investigadores dedicados a la producción de conocimientos han manifestado abiertamente sus limitaciones para articular fenómenos que escapan o se resisten a los métodos clásicos de la investigación positivista. La complejidad propia de las dinámicas territoriales en contextos de modernidad -donde los símbolos culturales
Carrera, N. I., Lizana, C.
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Ohuokhai: Transmitter of Biocultural Heritage for Sakha of Northeastern Siberia

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2019
Sakha, a Turkic-speaking people of northeastern Siberia, Russia, practice a circle dance called ohuokhai that is fueled by improvisatory song. Although it is typically bracketed by regular introductory and closing stanzas, its improvisatory middle is a communicative forum for the lead singer to report, critique, and prophesize on issues relevant to the
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From landscape as heritage to biocultural heritage in a landscape

2022
Vincenza Ferrara   +2 more
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Biocultural heritage of the Caatinga: a systematic review of Myrtaceae and its multiple uses

Biological Reviews
ABSTRACTThe Caatinga, an exclusively Brazilian biome, stands as a reservoir of remarkable biodiversity. Its significance transcends ecological dimensions, given the direct reliance of the local population on its resources for sustenance and healthcare. While Myrtaceae, a pivotal botanical family within the Brazilian flora, has been extensively explored
P. S. Santos‐Neves   +7 more
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