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Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet.
Anderson, E. N.   +29 more
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Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature's linkages with people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is vital for inclusive assessments of nature and nature's linkages with people. Indigenous peoples' concepts about what constitutes sustainability, for example, differ markedly from dominant ...
Adem, Çiğdem   +31 more
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Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Only 10 years remain to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally, so there is a growing need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of action by targeting multiple SDGs.
Balfour, Nicholas   +10 more
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Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge

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   +1 more source

Open Science for Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals: Status and Prospects in Asia and the Pacific

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2022
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is increasingly challenging due to widening inequality in access to scientific and technological knowledge and resources.
Jeff Camkin   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators

open access: yesRevue d'ethnoécologie, 2015
This paper brings together three case studies on the interrelationships amongst people, pollination processes and pollinators (notably honeybees).
Marie Roué   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adopting the Local Knowledge of Coastal Communities for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study From Bangladesh

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2022
Bangladesh has a unique coastal system with both proximity of climatic vulnerability and opportunity, having rich coastal resources. The upkeep of people's livelihoods in the coastal zone largely depends on the degree to which key stakeholders at all ...
Nahid Sultana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in ...
Angelo, Denise, Dixon, Sally
core   +1 more source

Collaborative research to inform adaptive comanagement: a framework for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
Globally, an increasing recognition of the importance of ecosystem-based management (EBM), Indigenous resource management (IRM), and Indigenous-led research and management is emerging; yet, case studies within scholarly literature illustrating ...
Kawika B. Winter   +40 more
doaj   +1 more source

New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the context of contemporary European labour migration, where the most publicised pattern of labour migration sees Eastern European migrants move West, the dominant scholarly interpretation of Polish jokes is not applicable for the analysis of much of ...
Ozieranski, P, Weaver, S
core   +3 more sources

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