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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people
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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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
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
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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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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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
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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El Mundo Sobrenatural en una Comunidad
Con motivo de aplicar cuestionarios y realizar investigaciones para el Programa de Cambios en Pueblos Peruanos, se ha permanecido en la Comunidad de Kuyo Grande, bajo la coordinación del Dr. Oscar Nuñez del Prado y la Supervisi¿on del Dr.
Juvenal Casaverde Rojas
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La Propiedad en las Comunidades Andinas
Uno de los mayores problemas que confronta el investigador que se interesa en estudiar la propiedad en las comunidades andinas es que no existe sólo una solución.
Juan M. Ossio A.
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NIVELES DE INTEGRACIÓN SOCIOCULTURAL EN UN ÁREA NATURAL PROTEGIDA DE MÉXICO
El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar, desde el enfoque de la antropología social, los niveles de integración sociocultural existentes y su influencia en el manejo de recursos naturales en un Área Natural Protegida en México. Para lograrlo
Xochitl Salomé Castañeda +2 more
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