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

open access: yesBioscience, 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   +3 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesPeople 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Storing and sharing: A review of indigenous and local knowledge conservation initiatives. [PDF]

open access: yesAmbio, 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.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species. [PDF]

open access: yesAmbio
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.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Co-conserving Indigenous and local knowledge systems with seeds

open access: yesTrends 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   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Knowledge Making’: Issues in Modelling Local and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Ecology, 2015
Modelling, particularly computer-based modelling, is increasingly used in political, managerial, and scientific contexts to enable and justify decisions. Technocratic decision makers also aspire to understand and incorporate local knowledge, albeit at times only superficially. We analyse one consequence of this situation – ongoing attempts to formalise,
Barber, M., Jackson, S.
openaire   +2 more sources

Is there a future for indigenous and local knowledge? [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Peasant Studies, 2021
By the late twentieth century, many doubted whether Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) would survive the millennium, but a surge in their recognition and new insight on their resilience open new ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples' platform: A traditional ecological knowledge-based evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2019 The Authors.
Johnson M.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Merging Indigenous and Modern Knowledge in Agricultural Development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agriculture System, 2015
This paper highlights the importance of merging indigenous with modern knowledge in agricultural development. Development of indigenous knowledge within the farming community, as a primary livelihood is now quite urgent.
Nurdiah Husnah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework

open access: yesAgriculture and Human Values, 2022
The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms by emphasizing more balanced, sustainable, and just human-environmental relations. Indigenous and local knowledge play an increasingly important role in debates about inclusive innovation, highlighting the ...
Peddi, Branwen   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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