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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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Integrating Ecological Knowledge into Regenerative Design: A Rapid Practice Review
, 2023 While sustainable design practice is working to reduce the ecological impacts of development, many of the earth’s already damaged life support systems require repair and regeneration.
Jane Toner +9 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Collecting interaction data to build frugivory or seed dispersal networks is logistically challenging in ecosystems that have very high plant and animal diversity and/or where fieldwork is difficult or dangerous.
Lisa Ong +11 more
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, 2011 Any present day approach of the world’s most pressing environmental problems involves both scale and governance issues. After all, current local events might have long-term global consequences (the scale issue) and solving complex environmental problems ...
Arts, B.J.M., Kok, K., Buizer, I.M.
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Ecology and Society, 2020 The social-ecological system framework (SESF) is a comprehensive, multitiered conceptual framework often used to understand human-environment interactions and outcomes.
Vidushi Patel +3 more
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Intellectual property rights systems and the assemblage of local knowledge systems. [PDF]
, 2008 The mounting loss of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples presents environmental as well as ethical issues. Fundamental among these is the sustainability of indigenous societies and their ecosystems.
Martin, G +8 more
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Feeding of Arapaima sp.: integrating stomach contents and local ecological knowledge [PDF]
, 2020 The giant arapaima (Arapaima sp.) has been described as a fish of change in Amazonia because of its important role in the conservation of floodplains, food security and income generation for rural communities.
Timothy Jardine +16 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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Local Ecological Knowledge and the Viability of the Relationships with the Environment
, 2019 Ethnoecology attempts to understand how societies interact with their environment by focusing in particular on the processes of ecological knowledge constructions. These processes are part of a particular socio-cultural context, and they are the result of numerous interactions with non-human elements of the environment such as animals, plants ...
Sabinot, Catherine, Lescureux, Nicolas
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Ten important questions/issues for ethnobotanical research
Acta Botânica BrasílicaFor at least 30 years researchers have called for a deeper reflection on the paths we desire for ethnobotanical research. Although the discipline of ethnobotany is growing, as measured by the number of publications in the area, there is still work to be ...
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque +11 more
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