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Mentoring is an intellectual pillar of ethnobiology [PDF]
, 2019 Ethnobiology relies on community partnerships and relationships between elders or other knowledge keepers and students. Our Society of Ethnobiology, like all academic organizations, has its own issues with discrimination and abuses of power.
Flachs, Andrew +3 more
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The relationship between Indigenous Peoples' lands and conservation: A systematic literature review
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract A growing body of peer‐reviewed literature is focused on the relationship between Indigenous Peoples' lands (Indigenous lands) and conservation outcomes. We performed a systematic review of this English reported peer‐reviewed literature (n = 111) to examine: the key characteristics; the conservation outcomes documented; the methods used in ...
William Nikolakis +4 more
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Fire severity drives understory community dynamics and the recovery of culturally significant plants
EcosphereAnthropogenic influences are altering fire regimes worldwide, resulting in an increase in the size and severity of wildfires. Simultaneously, throughout western North America, there is increasing recognition of the important role of Indigenous fire ...
Sarah Dickson‐Hoyle +6 more
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Environment for the People [PDF]
, 2005 Environment for the People, a joint publication of PERI and the Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE) in India, documents innovative strategies used by environmental activists around the world to build natural assets.
Elizabeth A. Stanton, James K. Boyce
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause +5 more
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How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework
Fire EcologyAbstract Background Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS) is contested within settler-colonial contexts, where its development is shaped by complex and dynamic socio-cultural, legal, and political factors. This manuscript draws from the policy sciences to sketch out a “zone of interaction” between IFS and the state’s ...
William Nikolakis +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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Reclaiming Fire and Sovereignty: The Skeetchestn's Journey
TransatlanticaIn a context marked by the intensification of wildfires and growing criticism of systematic suppression policies, several Indigenous communities in what is now known as British Columbia are reaffirming their territorial sovereignty by reintroducing fire ...
Clara Aubonnet, Mike Anderson
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The Private Lands Opportunity: The Case for Conservation Incentives [PDF]
, 2003 Outlines a number of opportunities available for enlisting the participation of landowners as partners in conservation as part of an effort to meet the nation's conservation ...
Michael Bean +3 more
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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