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The perceived value of local knowledge tourism: dimension identification and scale development. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Introduction Local knowledge tourism encompasses the rich cultural heritage, historical narratives, and traditional practices of a specific destination. Despite its significance in enhancing the tourist experience, there is a dearth of research examining
Zhang H, Jiang J, Zhu JJ.
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Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge. [PDF]
Bioscience, 2021 Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and conservation.
Tengö M +3 more
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Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews the state of the literature on this topic by focusing on six pathways by which
Eduardo S Brondizio +2 more
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The diversity bonus in pooling local knowledge about complex problems. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance Groups can collectively achieve an augmented cognitive capability that enables them to effectively tackle complex problems. Importantly, researchers have hypothesized that this group property—frequently known as collective intelligence—may ...
Aminpour P +7 more
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Local knowledge as a tool for prospecting wild food plants: experiences in northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 This study aims to provide a simple framework to identify wild food plants with potential for popularization based on local knowledge and perception. To this end, we also characterized the distribution of this knowledge in the socio-ecological system. We
de Medeiros PM +5 more
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Dark local knowledge: the yet-to-be scientifically discovered and locally acknowledged aspects of local knowledge systems [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineThis essay brings forward the idea that there is more than meets the eye in local knowledge systems than what science can show us now. To comprehend this, we need to make a conceptual jump and look for the “dark matter” (the notion borrowed from ...
Renata Sõukand
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Land, 2020 The need to recognize diverse actors, their knowledge and values is being widely promoted as critical for sustainability in contemporary land use, natural resource management and conservation initiatives.
Portia Adade Williams +2 more
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Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance
Research Policy, 2017 We use an augmented version of the UK Innovation Surveys 4–7 to explore firm-level and local area openness externalities on firms’ innovation performance.
Stephen Roper, James H Love
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Biological Conservation, 2017 There is an important role for indigenous and local knowledge in a Multiple Evidence Base to make decisions about the use of biodiversity and its management. This is important both to ensure that the knowledge base is complete (comprising both scientific
Barbara Smith +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives Dental caries is the most common reason for hospital admissions for children aged 6–10 years in England. The prevalence in the experience of hospital admission is not uniform across all populations.
Sarah Kaddour +6 more
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