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Informing decision‐making with Indigenous and local knowledge and science

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020
There is an increased focus on the role of Indigenous and local people and organizations in knowledge gathering, knowledge synthesis and decision-making.
H. Wheeler, M. Root‐Bernstein
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Quand les politiques environnementales attisent les tensions interculturelles en Guyane française

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2020
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, Marianne Palisse, Catherine Aubertin   +2 more
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Knowledge coevolution: generating new understanding through bridging and strengthening distinct knowledge systems and empowering local knowledge holders

Sustainability Science, 2020
The effective and appropriate bridging of Western science with traditional or Indigenous knowledge is an ongoing discussion in the literature and in practice.
J. Chapman, S. Schott
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Ongame molwashoka otse

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
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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Comprendre les faibles taux d’adhésion et de cotisation aux mutuelles de santé : exploration dans quatre communes du Bénin

Anthropologie & Santé, 2019
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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Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge

People and Nature, 2020
1. More than 30 years after the 1988 Declaration of Belém, which we can consider an important outcome of socio-environmental movements, this reflexive paper proposes new ways of approaching indigenous local knowledge (ILK) related to the living ...
M. Congretel, F. Pinton
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Local knowledge and practices about fire use in wetlands management Argentina. A comparative study of fire regimes in two wetlands in Santa Fe province

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
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, Brián German Ferrero, Antonella Vicentini, Casimiro Tommasi, Bibiana Bilbao   +4 more
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Groundwater development and management constraints in drought prone Chiredzi and Zvishavane Districts, Zimbabwe

Climate Services
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, Regis Musavengane, Mulala Simatele   +2 more
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Mapping Rights in Coastal Sami Seascapes

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2010
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

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2022
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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