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Colonial shadows – a systematic review of the Xavante health transformation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health
Background From a biocultural perspective, health is a multifaceted concept shaped not only by biomedical factors but also by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. In Indigenous contexts, health is particularly vulnerable, as it is profoundly
Katarzyna Górka
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L’avenir de la conservation des plantes cultivées à la ferme : intérêt des approches bioculturelles de la conservation

open access: yesDroit et Cultures, 2023
The article focuses on the modernist framework of crop diversity conservation as it was set up in the early 20th century. It shows and analyses its effects, particularly on the category of on-farm conservation that unfolded in the late 1980s.
Benjamin Coudurier   +2 more
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The Missing and the Marginalized: A Biocultural Approach to Forensic Anthropology at the US/Mexico Border

open access: yesHumans, 2023
Violence and trauma are nestled in human rights violations worldwide. Since the 1980s, several international and domestic organizations have formed to conduct investigations following instances of political unrest and sociocultural violence.
Elise J. Adams, Jesse R. Goliath
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An ethic of co-inhabitation for the biocultural conservation of rivers

open access: yesNaturaleza 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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Biocultural Rights and Protocols in the Pacific

open access: yes, 2022
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.
Raven, Margaret, Robinson, Daniel
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Community stewardship: the foundation of biocultural rights [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2015
The term ‘biocultural rights’ denotes a community’s long established right, in accordance with its customary laws, to steward its lands, waters and resources. Such rights are being increasingly recognized in international environmental law. Biocultural rights are not simply claims to property, in the typical market sense of property being a universally
Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte, Tom Bennett
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The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation

open access: yesOryx, 2023
The current paradigm of biodiversity conservation, with its continued focus on the notion of pristine nature, has resulted in the separation of humans and nature at the expense of both biological and cultural–linguistic diversity.
Winy Vasquez, Terry Sunderland
doaj   +1 more source

The Pagoda of the Gods: A case for Indigenous Karen sacred sites as Special Cultural Zones along Thailand’s borders

open access: yesForest and Society, 2022
Burgeoning recognition of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and livelihood practices have led to ‘Special Cultural Zone’ designations for some traditionally Indigenous lands in Thailand.
Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
Although biocultural stewardship models have been written about widely, especially in Indigenous and rural communities, the practice of applying them in multicultural, urban environments has rarely been explored. We have yet to realize the full potential
Heather L. McMillen   +5 more
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COMMUNITY PROTOCOLS AND BIOCULTURAL RIGHTS: Unravelling the Biocultural Nexus in ABS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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Girard, Fabien   +2 more
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