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Development Studies Research, 2023 Researchers have sought to understand how Indigenous and Western knowledge systems can be bridged for development research to be (a) more inclusive of local actors and knowledge and (b) more relevant to the problems it aims to address.
Kaja Weaver
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Objective The James and Hudson Bay Region, consisting of six remote Indigenous communities, have experienced barriers accessing regional health data. To inform local health planning, the Minomathasowin Healthy Living department in the Weeneebayko Area ...
Beth Rachlis +11 more
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‘Knowledge Making’: Issues in Modelling Local and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge [PDF]
Human 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.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Fisherwomen in Fiji play a vital role in the daily sustenance of their families and they use their Indigenous and local knowledge to harvest resources. Marine and freshwater resources harvested by fisherwomen contribute to the primary protein intake of ...
Salanieta Kitolelei +3 more
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Indigenous Shamanic Worldviews as Dialogical Eco-Cosmology
Lagoonscapes, 2021 This article deals with indigenous shamanic worldviews and indigenous knowledge as dialogical eco-cosmology. It shows the relevance of eco-cosmology as local indigenous ecological and spiritual knowledge in the context of global biodiversity and ...
Guzy, Lidia
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Biodiversity governance: a Tower of Babel of scales and cultures. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2015 The recently created Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), originally focused on multilateral and global issues, is shifting its focus to address local issues and to include in its assessments local stakeholders and ...
Jorge Soberón, A Townsend Peterson
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Is there a future for indigenous and local knowledge? [PDF]
The 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 ...
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The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples' platform: A traditional ecological knowledge-based evaluation [PDF]
, 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
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Merging Indigenous and Modern Knowledge in Agricultural Development
International 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
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Mutual productivity spillovers between foreign and local firms in China [PDF]
, 2008 The existing literature treats advanced technology sourcing as the only cause of reverse productivity spillovers from local to foreign firms and implies that mutual spillovers between foreign and local firms can only happen in the developed world.
C. Wang +7 more
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