Using local ecological knowledge to assess the status of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus in Guizhou Province, China [PDF]
, 2015 The Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus, the world's largest amphibian, is severely threatened by unsustainable exploitation of wild individuals.
Chen, Shu +6 more
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Participatory video as a tool for co-management in coastal communities: a case study from Madagascar
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023 Here we examine participatory video (supporting a group to make a film around a specific issue) as a tool to facilitate input of local knowledge and empower communities in stewardship over their local marine resources.
Amber Lucy Carter +5 more
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Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems [PDF]
, 2011 SUMMARYThe emergent human cultures have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, local ecosystems. Yet humanity's intense modification of the environment has resulted in dramatic worldwide declines in natural and cultural capital.
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Managing inequality: the political ecology of a small-scale fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper starts from the perspective on resource management approaches as based upon a body of environmental knowledge. By analysing fisheries management in Mweru-Luapula, Zambia, we argue that this body of environmental knowledge has (i) remained ...
Verelst, Bram
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The Bio-Economy Concept and Knowledge Base in a Public Goods and Farmer Perspective [PDF]
, 2012 Currently an industrial perspective dominates the EU policy framework for a European bio-economy. The Commission’s proposal on the bio-economy emphasises greater resource-efficiency, largely within an industrial perspective on global economic ...
Levidov, Les +2 more
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Jurnal Sylva Lestari, 2017 One of the efforts of subsistence forest communities is through interaction with the forest. Experience and habit of managing forests form a system of knowledge of ecological knowledge of communities to manage and use resources wisely. Local ecological
Girda Cahya Safira +2 more
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Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia [PDF]
, 2016 Local medical systems are key elements of social-ecological systems as they provide culturally appropriate and locally accessible health care options, especially for populations with scarce access to biomedicine.
Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel +4 more
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Reasons for seagrass optimism: Local ecological knowledge confirms presence of dugongs [PDF]
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018 Dugongs (Dugong dugon) depend on seagrass meadows for food. As such seagrass and dugong conservation should go hand in hand. Assessing dugong populations is notoriously challenging. In the most resource dependent communities Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) is generally high and can provide an alternative to the use of expensive ecological surveys to ...
Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth +4 more
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A Geographic Approach to Place and Natural Resource Use in Local Food Systems [PDF]
, 2010 This article illuminates the geographic concept of ‘place’ in local foods. Because the social aspects of local food have been more fully addressed in previous literature, this review focuses instead on the ecological aspects of farming and food.
Duram, Leslie, Oberholtzer, Lydia
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Ecology and Society, 2008 Natural resource management decisions can be based on incomplete knowledge when they lack scientific research, monitoring, and assessment and/or simultaneously fail to draw on local ecological knowledge. Many community-based forestry organizations in the
Heidi L. Ballard +2 more
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