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Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge. [PDF]

Bioscience, 2021
Abstract Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and conservation. Drawing on field experience and scientific literature, we explore the connection between CS and ILK and demonstrate approaches for how CS can generate useful knowledge while at ...
Tengö M, Austin BJ, Danielsen F, Fernández-Llamazares Á.   +3 more
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Storing and sharing: A review of indigenous and local knowledge conservation initiatives. [PDF]

Ambio, 2020
Despite its relative adaptive capacity and its many values, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is rapidly eroding. Over the past decades a myriad of efforts have emerged to prevent this erosion. In this work, we reviewed and systematically coded 138 ILK conservation initiatives published in academic papers in order to explore trends in participation,
Benyei P, Arreola G, Reyes-García V.
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Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species. [PDF]

Ambio
Abstract The promise of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for conservation policy depends on how pervasively ILK is held among local people. In the Peruvian Amazon, we conducted a landscape-scale concordance analysis between (1) ILK for game, timber, and fish species collected by the largest representative ILK survey as yet undertaken in ...
Takasaki Y, Coomes OT, Abizaid C.
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Disaster, environment and local indigenous knowledge in Indonesia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Indonesia is a disaster-prone area due to its complexity in geographical and geological location. For thousands of years, Indonesian society has interacted with various natural disasters.
Dede Moh., Kusumaningsih Siti Nurbayani, Widiawaty Millary Agung, Nandhita Ni Gusti Ayu, Wahyuni Sri, Khosihan Aan, Utami Nindita Fajria, Wulandari Puspita, Setiadi Elly Malihah, Ismail Arif   +9 more
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Role of Localization and Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Rural Development [PDF]

Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2016
Experiences have manifested that local techniques and indigenous knowledge are the best way for achievement of sustainable livelihood development. The indigenous knowledge is adapted to environmental, social and economic local conditions. It is a part of
jompor mahmood
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Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge [PDF]

People and Nature, 2020
More than 30 years after the 1988 Declaration of Belém, which we can consider an important outcome of socio‐environmental movements, this reflexive paper proposes new ways of approaching indigenous local knowledge (ILK) related to the living environment ...
Mélanie Congretel, Florence Pinton
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Decolonizing land management in institutions of higher education

Journal of Land Use Science, 2022
Many institutions of higher education (IHE) were founded on and continue to benefit from the violent dispossession of Indigenous Land. IHE and Land managed by IHE frame scientific knowledge as universal, marginalizing Indigenous, non-Eurocentric ...
Laura O’Brien, Praneeta Mudaliar
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Weaving place‐based knowledge for culturally significant species in the age of genomics: Looking to the past to navigate the future

Evolutionary Applications, 2022
Relationships with place provide critical context for characterizing biocultural diversity. Yet, genetic and genomic studies are rarely informed by Indigenous or local knowledge, processes, and practices, including the movement of culturally significant ...
Aisling Rayne, Stephanie Blair, Matthew Dale, Brendan Flack, John Hollows, Roger Moraga, Riki N. Parata, Makarini Rupene, Paulette Tamati‐Elliffe, Priscilla M. Wehi, Matthew J. Wylie, Tammy E. Steeves   +11 more
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Co-conserving Indigenous and local knowledge systems with seeds

Trends in Plant Science, 2023
Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) holders have deep ecological, horticultural, and practical knowledge of plants, but this knowledge is not routinely considered and supported along with seed collections conserved ex situ. In this opinion, conceived collaboratively by a team of botanists, ecologists, ethnobiologists, and practitioners in biodiversity
Teixidor-Toneu, Irene, Westengen, Ola, Ulian, Tiziana, Mc Million, Andrew, Lorimer, Matthias, Grace, Olwen, Caillon, Sophie, Shrestha, Pitambar, Kool, Anneleen   +8 more
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Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities are facing tremendous cultural, economic and environmental changes, which ...
Shankar Aswani, Anne Lemahieu, Warwick H H Sauer   +2 more
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