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Ethical issues involving long-term land leases: a soil sciences perspective [PDF]

, 2019
As populations grow and arable land becomes increasingly scarce, large-scale long- term land leases are signed at a growing rate. Countries and investors with large amounts of financial resources and a strong agricultural industry seek long-term land ...
Félix, Georges F., Timmermann, Cristian
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Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia [PDF]

, 2009
Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
Johansson, J., Keskitalo, E.C.H., Sandstrom, C., Tysiachniouk, M.S.   +3 more
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Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management

Nature Communications, 2022
‘Commercial fisheries have decimated keystone species, including oysters in the past 200 years. Here, the authors examine how Indigenous oyster harvest in North America and Australia was managed across 10,000 years, advocating for effective future ...
Leslie Reeder-Myers, Todd J. Braje, Courtney A. Hofman, Emma A. Elliott Smith, Carey J. Garland, Michael Grone, Carla S. Hadden, Marco Hatch, Turner Hunt, Alice Kelley, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Michael Lockman, Iain McKechnie, Ian J. McNiven, Bonnie Newsom, Thomas Pluckhahn, Gabriel Sanchez, Margo Schwadron, Karen Y. Smith, Tam Smith, Arthur Spiess, Gabrielle Tayac, Victor D. Thompson, Taylor Vollman, Elic M. Weitzel, Torben C. Rick   +25 more
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Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Interest in bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western Science together to enhance climate and landscape resilience is growing rapidly, particularly for engagement with pyrogenic communities around the world. For these systems, Indigenous Knowledge offers unique insights that reflect millennia of intimate engagement with local ...
Larson ER, Montano NM, Lockling E, Ojibway A, Reynolds MB, Zhaawendaagozikwe VR, Johnson LB, Kipfmueller KF, Dockry MJ, Northrup V, Savage J, Kimmerer RW.   +11 more
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Cherokee relationships to land: Reflections on a historic plant gathering agreement between Buffalo National River and the Cherokee Nation [PDF]

, 2020
This piece reflects on my involvement in a historic agreement between Buffalo National River and the Cherokee Nation regarding the implementation of the “Gathering of Certain Plants or Plant Parts by Federally Recognized Indian Tribes for Traditional ...
Carroll, Clint
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What Can Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Teach Us About Changing Our Approach to Human Activity and Environmental Stewardship in Order to Reduce the Severity of Climate Change?

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2018
Many Indigenous communities living on traditional lands have not contributed significantly to harmful climate change. Yet, they are the most likely to be impacted by climate change.
John Hansen, Rose Antsanen
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Alaska Native Subsistence Rights: Taking an Anti-Racist Decolonizing Approach to Land Management and Ownership for Our Children and Generations to Come

Societies, 2022
The colonization of Indigenous Peoples in Alaska was based on racism and founded the current systemic racism, discrimination, and marginalization they experience today.
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon
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First the forest: conservation, 'community' and 'participation' in South West Cameroon [PDF]

, 1998
Western concern with ‘conserving’ or ‘managing’ the rain forests of Africa has led to the setting up of a number of conservation projects. In such projects the ‘participation’ of the ‘community’ in forest conservation has become the new orthodoxy ...
Sharpe, B
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Special opportunities for conserving cultural and biological diversity: The co-occurrence of Indigenous languages and UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites [PDF]

, 2020
Recent research indicates that speakers of Indigenous languages often live in or near United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Natural World Heritage Sites (WHSs).
Gorenflo, L. J., Romaine, Suzanne
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Conservation in Museums and Inclusion of the Non-Professional [PDF]

, 2014
Just as object meanings are defined by people, so too can identities of individuals, groups and communities be implicit in their relationships with particular objects.
Saunders, JM
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