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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]

open access: yesراهبردهای 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   +2 more
doaj  

Celebrating and sustaining Indigenous knowledges through research [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local and indigenous knowledge systems in the Peruvian Andes: turno cultivation in the Campesino communities of Huancachi and Quilcas

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Local people's knowledge in natural resources research [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
core  

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Sources of Innovation in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Singapore [PDF]

open access: yes
By tracing the flows of patent citation of prior patents and scientific journal articles, we investigate the sources of knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent on ...
Poh Kam Wong, Yuen Ping Ho
core  

Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conserving cultural heritage and the usage of indigenous knowledge: A case study of the Zululand District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal. [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2018
Local communities are the custodians of cultural heritage resources and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, therefore one imagines that they should be active participants in passing on their cultural heritage, particularly to the youth and subsequently use it ...
Samukelisiwe M. Nkwanyana
doaj  

Is local knowledge peripheral? The future of Indigenous knowledge in research and development

open access: yesAlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2022
The concepts of the core, semi-periphery, and periphery emanated from a mix of dependency and postmodernist thoughts, which rejected the notion of a Third World from which local knowledge emanates and develops. That local or Indigenous knowledge is perceived as backward and antidevelopment is no longer new.
openaire   +1 more source

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