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Transforming Local Knowledge(s) into European Recommendations: A Methodological Approach to Co-Creating Policy Briefs for Educational Inclusion

Social Sciences
This article explores the process of developing policy briefs (PB) as strategic tools to translate knowledge stemming from the analysis of local educational practices into inclusive European policy recommendations.
Sofia Almeida Santos, Mariana Fonseca, Ana Cristina Torres, Eunice Macedo, Amélia Veiga   +4 more
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Validity of the Fisher Community Knowledge-Based Economic Valuation of the Local Ecosystem for Oyster Farming: A Case Study in Japan

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The importance of local knowledge as a relevant information resource for ecosystem conditions has recently been the focus of sustainable ecosystem management.
Junpei Shinji, Ryutaro Kamiyama, Tsubasa Nakamura, Kenshiro Yamanaka, Takahiro Matsui   +4 more
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Using local scientific knowledge for transboundary conservation: distribution modelling for the taruka in South America

Oryx
Effective conservation management of threatened species with transboundary distributions is a challenge, requiring international coordination to ensure that country-specific actions align with regional imperatives. Many international conservation efforts
Nicolás Fuentes-Allende, Cristina Mata, Javier Barrio, Paulo Corti, Gabriel Llerena, Velia Mendoza, Ángela Nuñez, Ramiro Ovejero, Luis F. Pacheco, Hernán Pastore, Josef Rechberger, Hector A. Regidor, Jhonson Vizcarra, Esteban Zúñiga, Benito A. González   +14 more
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De l’« efficacité » symbolique des interdits à leur fonctionnalité écologique

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2014
During the last few decades, environmental emergencies as well as mixed results of existing conservation systems, urges researchers and managers of protected areas to look up other forms of resource management models in non-Western cultures.
Hélène Artaud
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Understanding the conservation-genetics gap in Latin America: challenges and opportunities to integrate genetics into conservation practices

Frontiers in Genetics
Introduction: Integrating genetic data into conservation management decisions is a challenging task that requires strong partnerships between researchers and managers.
Constanza Napolitano, Constanza Napolitano, Constanza Napolitano, Cristhian Clavijo, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Carolina I. Miño, José F. González-Maya, Nadia Bou, Alan Giraldo, Angela Martino, Cristina Yumi Miyaki, Luis F. Aguirre, Andrea Cosacov, Yoamel Milián-García, Laura Prosdocimi, O. Eric Ramírez-Bravo, Luis Antonio Tovar, Ximena Velez-Zuazo, Mercedes Barrios, Bernal Herrera-Fernández, María G. Montiel-Villalobos, María A. Oliveira-Miranda, Monique Pool, Alonso Santos-Murgas, Maria Claudia Segovia-Salcedo, Felipe Cecchi, Armando J. Dans, Nelanie Dilchand, Sergio M. Q. Lima, María Caridad Novas, Karla Pelz-Serrano, Nina Pougy, Iris Rodríguez, Liesbeth van der Meer, Galo Zapata-Ríos   +35 more
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Legacies of intensive management in forests around pre-columbian and modern settlements in the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve, Amazonia

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2019
Amazonian peoples use and manage plant populations in previously domesticated landscapes, but the extent of landscape transformation remains uncertain, especially in interfluvial areas.
Maria Julia Ferreira, Carolina Levis, José Iriarte, Charles R. Clement   +3 more
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Using Farmer Decision Rules for Mapping Historical Land Use Change Patterns from 1954 to 2007 in Rural Northwestern Vietnam

Land, 2019
The present study revealed how local socioecological knowledge elucidated during participatory rural appraisals and historical remote sensing data can be combined for analyzing land use change patterns from 1954 to 2007 in northwestern Vietnam.
Thanh Thi Nguyen, Melvin Lippe, Carsten Marohn, Tran Duc Vien, Georg Cadisch   +4 more
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Local Knowledge and Professional Background Have a Minimal Impact on Volunteer Citizen Science Performance in a Land-Cover Classification Task

Remote Sensing, 2016
The idea that closer things are more related than distant things, known as ‘Tobler’s first law of geography’, is fundamental to understanding many spatial processes.
Carl Salk, Tobias Sturn, Linda See, Steffen Fritz   +3 more
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2016
In the Congo basin, fishing activities are a major source of protein and of income for many households. Fishermen combine a broad range of fishing methods adapted to the seasonality of the floodplain and the particular features of its habitats.
Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey   +2 more
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Bridging worlds

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
In high-mountain regions, climate change adaptation represents a major challenge, both now and in the future, particularly in issues related to water management and the continued degradation and loss of glaciers. While scientific knowledge on the subject
Marcela Brugnach, Sérgio Henrique Faria
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