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Environmental Education Model Based on Local Wisdom of the Dayak Paramasan Tribe Indonesia [PDF]

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology
The indigenous knowledge of the Dayak Paramasan in Indonesia holds the potential for environmental sustainability. This study aims to assess an environmental education framework grounded in the local wisdom of the Paramasan Dayak tribe.
D. F. Wardhani, D. Arisanty, A. Nugroho and U. B. L. Utami
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Desertification and Climate Change in Africa [PDF]

, 2020
Desertification has increased in African drylands in recent decades, led by land use change, climatic variability and poor land management practices. People living in drylands in Africa are highly vulnerable to desertification and climate change, because
Africa Group of Negotiators Expert Support
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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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Involvement of local Indigenous peoples in Arctic research — expectations, needs and challenges perceived by early career researchers

Arctic Science, 2019
Rapid changes in the natural and social environments of the Arctic region have led to increased scientific presence across the Arctic. Simultaneously, the importance of involving local Indigenous peoples in research activities is increasingly recognized ...
Ylva Sjöberg, Sarah Gomach, Evan Kwiatkowski, Mathilde Mansoz   +3 more
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Contingent, Contested and Changing: De-Constructing Indigenous Knowledge in a Science Curriculum Resource from the South Coast of New South Wales

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2009
The nature and status of Indigenous knowledge is often debated, but the idea that Indigenous people's knowledge is local knowledge seems widely accepted: knowledge is place-based and may reference a range of places, from ...
Daphne Nash
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Indigenous Knowledge of Folk Herbal Medicines by the Women of District Chakwal, Pakistan [PDF]

, 2006
The present research work was designed to gather indigenous knowledge of local women about herbal medicines. Present study was confined to interview women of remote villages of district Chakwal.
Sultana, Shazia, et al.
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Analyzing the Role of Indigenous Knowledge from the Perspectives of Rangeland Users in Empowering Local Communities and Sustainable Development (Study Area: Savadkouh Summer Rangelands - Upstream of the Alborz Dam) [PDF]

راهبردهای کارآفرینی در کشاورزی
Extended Abstract Background: In recent decades, many organizations have attempted to develop programs and policies for greater participation in environmental protection.
Qodratollah Heydari, Ronak Ahmadi, Mohammad mehdi Mardanshahi   +2 more
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Local people's knowledge in natural resources research [PDF]

, 1999
Innovation and knowledge about natural resources come from many different sources; application of new knowledge does not occur in a vacuum but has to be incorporated into specific social and ecological contexts.
Martin, A., Warburton, H.
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Local and indigenous knowledge systems in the Peruvian Andes: turno cultivation in the Campesino communities of Huancachi and Quilcas

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionThe Local and Indigenous knowledge systems of campesino communities in Peru reflect the altitudinally diverse and extreme climates of the Andean mountains and support the ancestral system of ‘turno’ cultivation.
Charlotte Potter, Charlotte Potter, Silvia Sarapura-Escobar, Israel Navarrete, Raul Ccanto   +4 more
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Celebrating and sustaining Indigenous knowledges through research [PDF]

, 2012
This paper reports on the growth of research within the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). The focus is the research and later, research and journal working group. The intent is to discuss the publication of the WINHEC Journal,
Anning, Berice, Arbon, Veronica, Robertson, Boni, Thomas, Gary   +3 more
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