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Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka'pamux) Territories

People and Nature
Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Jennifer Grenz, Jennifer Zyp‐Loring, Jade LaFontaine, Leslie Main Johnson, Nancy J. Turner   +5 more
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Applying the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology to classify, describe, and map ecosystems based on regional data and Indigenous knowledge. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Four streams of infromation, data, and knowledges are brought together into an ecosystem typology for the Tiwi Islands. The Typology contains written descriptions and conceptual models for each ecosystem, cross‐reference to other classification schemes, and a map of ecosystem distributions. Abstract Effective ecosystem conservation for biodiversity and
Young AR, Davies HF, Ayre ML, Brekelmans A, Bryan BA, Elith J, Hadden K, Kerinaiua M, Keith DA, Lewis DL, Munkara-Murray KM, Ryan S, Spencer M, Nicholson E.   +13 more
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Integrating local ecological knowledge into systematic conservation planning for seahorse conservation. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Successful long‐term conservation relies on strategic planning for pragmatic actions to mitigate threats. Prioritizing actions and areas to support conservation goals in the most cost‐effective scenario becomes crucial in resource‐limited environments. However, planning and management can be challenging in data‐limited contexts.
Borges AKM, Adams VM, Alves RRN, Oliveira TPR.   +3 more
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Athayde S, Utsunomiya R, Victoria-Lacy L, Beveridge C, Jenkins CN, Laufer J, Heilpern S, Olivas P, Anderson EP.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
The southern Siberian Turkic groups were mostly unknown to outsiders when the Swedish scientist Johan Peter Falck (1732–1774) visited their settlements in the early 1770s.
Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg
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Stratigraphy of volcanic memory: Sociocultural dimensions of volcanic risk in the Southern Andes, Chile

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1018-1033, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article focuses on communities that reoccupy territories affected by volcanic eruptions to extend understanding of people's social appropriation of environments exposed to natural hazards. We take as a case study three rural settlements affected by several eruptions from the Carran‐Los Venados and Puyehue‐Cordón Caulle volcanic systems ...
Francisca Vergara‐Pinto, Andrés Marín   +1 more
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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, Bruno Locatelli, Merelyn Valdivia‐Díaz, Yésica Quispe Conde, Gerardina Matencio García, Alejandrina Ramos Criales, Francisca Valverde Huamanñahui, Santusa Ramos Criales, David Makowski, Sandra Lavorel   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guam's last håyun lågu tree (Serianthes nelsonii) in peril

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Military expansion is currently threatening Guam's last håyun lågu tree (Serianthes nelsonii). Extensive phylogenetic and ethnographic research that is connected to the principles of environmental justice has brought attention to the social movement to protect the håyun lågu and the sacred lands that hold spiritual connections for Indigenous people ...
Else Demeulenaere, Stefanie M. Ickert‐Bond   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture [PDF]

, 2009
Review of : Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture by Thomas ...
Nelson, Eric Sean
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Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, and Climate Change

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 624-641, August 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT The article proposes that climate change makes enduring colonial injustices and structures visible. It focuses on the imposition and dominance of colonial concepts of land and self‐determination on Indigenous peoples in settler states. It argues that if the dominance of these colonial frameworks remains unaddressed, the progressing climate ...
Kerstin Reibold
wiley   +1 more source