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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that ...
Améline Vallet +9 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 943-959, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This study aimed to evaluate household's willingness to pay (WTOP) for irrigation water use (IWU) per timad (0.25 ha) of the irrigable land per year and to analyze determinants of WTOP for IWU at individual households based on the contingent valuation method (CVM).
Biruk Kemaw Shenkute +3 more
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Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1094-1109, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists are called to conduct research with community actors to understand and improve relations between people and nature. Yet, research hierarchies and power relations continue to favour western academic researchers who remain the gatekeepers of knowledge production and validation.
Maureen G. Reed +15 more
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 575-586, December 2022., 2022 Abstract When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti‐mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal ...
Teresa A. Velásquez
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Displacing (in)formality: endangered species, endangered city, and unstable grounds of comparison
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 516-536, June 2022., 2022 Abstract In this article, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork among fog oasis conservationists in Lima, Peru, I show how emergent ethics of conservation become enmeshed with discourses on (in)formality. I demonstrate this by framing contemporary concerns about the endangerment of species endemic to Lima against the background of more long‐running ...
Chakad Ojani
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People and Nature, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 312-329, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Nature is perceived and valued in many different ways. Often, the types of values that are the most important to people depend on how they cognitively frame desirable human–nature relations. For instance, the value of nature can be seen through a utilitarian lens, for example, as providing ecosystem services for humans.
Bosco Lliso +4 more
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The Case of Piruani: Contested Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Indigeneity in Highland Bolivia
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 60-74, May 2021., 2021 Abstract The 2009 Bolivian constitution included provisions that establish a radical form of de jure legal pluralism by creating a parallel legal system that gives full recognition to the nonstate legal orders and forms of conflict resolution of Indigenous communities.
Matthew Doyle
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Chile: Expansión del cultivo e industria del salmón y agricultura familiar campesina (nueva ruralidad y persistencia campesina) [PDF]
, 2003 Se presentan antecedentes sobre la persistencia por mantener la condición de campesinos en espacios donde se consolida una situación de nueva ruralidad.
Gómez E, Sergio
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