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Indigenous Communities

Téoros, 2014
Agricultural, communal, and indigenous communities, organized as ejidos,1 have for centuries shown an ecocentric and devoted relationship with Nature, humanity, and the planet, and continue to apply their values in the development of rural tourism that ...
Gloria Amparo Miranda Zambrano, José Eduardo Vidaurri Aréchiga   +1 more
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Policymakers' concerns linking tobacco and Indigenous communities in India: A qualitative analysis of parliamentary questions (1952-2022). [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
Tobacco use and associated disease burden remain high among Indigenous communities in India. Despite an overall decline in tobacco consumption over the last few decades, the social disparities in tobacco use have widened, with Indigenous communities ...
Shilpi Sikha Das, Upendra Bhojani, Nugehalli Srinivas Prashanth   +2 more
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems of Solid Waste Management in Bushbuckridge Rural Communities, South Africa

Waste
Indigenous knowledge systems related to solid waste management in economically marginalized communities have been largely overlooked in the scientific literature, even though the indigenous communities of developing nations struggling to manage solid ...
Benett Siyabonga Madonsela, Machete Machete, Karabo Shale   +2 more
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Assessing inclusiveness for indigenous communities in mineral rights allocation in Ghana

Heliyon
Ghana is blessed with an abundance of mineral resources. These mineral resources are situated in indigenous communities, but the ownership is vested in the government.
Emmanuel Mensah Aboagye
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Harm reduction approaches within Indigenous communities across Turtle Island: A scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America) have been practicing harm reduction for many decades, though the work is often under documented and underacknowledged.
Meenakshi Richardson, Andrea Medley, Jessica Kipp, Maya Magarati, Jessica Leston, Lee Torres, Kim Ford, Danica Brown, Myra Parker, Melissa Walls   +9 more
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Does Indigenous tourism contribute to Indigenous resilience to disasters? A case study on Taiwan's highlands

Progress in Disaster Science, 2022
Climate change poses a real threat to Taiwan's Indigenous communities. Many disaster risk reduction or post-disaster reconstruction interventions are implemented in a top down way.
Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
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Global Strategies for Population Management of Domestic Cats (Felis catus): A Systematic Review to Inform Best Practice Management for Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia

Animals, 2020
Pet domestic cat (Felis catus) populations are increasing all around the world, resulting in an increase in contact with humans and wildlife, potentially spreading zoonotic diseases and predating on wildlife.
Brooke P. A. Kennedy, Bonny Cumming, Wendy Y. Brown   +2 more
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Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge-systems in knowledge co-production with Amazonian Indigenous communities: a systematic realist review

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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Early Childhood Caries in Indigenous Communities [PDF]

Paediatrics & Child Health, 2021
The oral health of Indigenous children of Canada (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) and the United States (American Indian and Alaska native) is a major child health disparity when compared with the general population of both countries. Early childhood caries (ECC) occurs in Indigenous children at an earlier age, with a higher prevalence, and at much ...
Steve Holve, Patricia Braun, James D. Irvine, Kristen Nadeau, Robert J. Schroth, Shaquita L. Bell, Daniel J. Calac, Allison Empey, Kristen J. Nadeau, Jane A. Oski, Judith K. Thierry, Ashley Weedn, Susan Fisher-Owens, Qadira Huff, Jeffrey Karp, Anupama Tate, John Unkel, David Krol, Radha Jetty, Roxanne Goldade, Brett Schrewe, Véronique Pelletier, Ryan J.P. Giroux, Margaret Berry, Leigh Fraser-Roberts   +24 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Towards attainment of Indigenous health through empowerment: resetting health systems, services and provider approaches

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Colonial policies and practices have introduced significant health challenges for Indigenous populations in commonwealth countries. Health systems and models of care were shaped for dominant society, and were not contextualised for Indigenous communities
Cheryl Barnabe
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