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Medicinal plants have long been used by traditional communities, one of them is the Malay people in Lingga Regency, Riau Islands Province in healing various diseases. This study aims to determine the types of medicinal plants based on local knowledge of
Ufara Qasrin +3 more
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Quand les politiques environnementales attisent les tensions interculturelles en Guyane française
This paper shows, from three perspectives, how the environmental policies in French Guiana, trying to deal with the local cultural diversity, tend to ethnicize social relations.
Théo Jacob +2 more
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A recent national survey by the Ministry for Health and Social Services revealed that Namibia’s suicide rate was vastly higher than previously thought. Mirroring global conceptions of mental health and depression, these numbers tend to be ‘explained away’
Jack Boulton
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Given the persistence of low rates of adherence and retention in mutual health insurance, the present anthropological study questions the local knowledge and the practices of populations with regard to disease, health insurance, savings and solidarity ...
Hervé Bonaventure Mêtonmassé Gbénahou
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REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum [PDF]
The theme of this paper is engagement in art as a stimulant to enterprise education with young people. Reflecting on their experiences of initiating and managing the case study outlined, the paper describes a process of arts intervention in a school ...
Haywood, P, Ingleson, SJ
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Wetlands are one of the most vulnerable ecosystems under current and future scenarios of climate change. Variation of rain distribution patterns, increase of extreme weather events (ENSO events, intense dry and rainy periods, heat waves), and changes in
Adriana Fabiola Millán Devera +4 more
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Communities in drought-prone areas continued to fall into new vulnerability traps due to increasing water demand and stress. The study assessed groundwater development and management constraints in the Chiredzi and Zvishavane districts of Zimbabwe ...
Pascal Manyakaidze +2 more
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Mapping Rights in Coastal Sami Seascapes
With the help of two recent Sami rights reports, this article identifies and discusses challenges for research and government in Norway related to indigenous fishery rights issues.
Camilla Brattland
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Lire les techniques pour comprendre les rapports entre humains et non-humains
The ethnoecological approach provides a complex framework to address the relationship between humans and the environment. It opens the way to a detailed understanding of the practices, uses and representations of the actors.
Nastassia Reyes
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities.
Kharisma Nugroho +2 more
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