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Local Knowledge On Plants [PDF]
, 2016 The immense richness of the biodiversity of Malaysian flora has earned her a place as one of the twelve mega-biodiversity areas of the world. The local communities have long benefited from this biodiversity through various uses, as a result of their ...
Che Lah, Salasiah, Esa, Norizan
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Citizen Science in Disaster and Conflict Resilience [PDF]
, 2010 *Background/Question/Methods* Within the disaster and conflict response communities, concern about lack of effectiveness of outside responses has led to a debate about the role of local people in developing the capacity to prepare for ...
Keith G Tidball, Marianne Krasny
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Ambiente & Sociedade, 2012 Este artículo presenta resultados de una investigación transdisciplinaria que combina el conocimiento local con saberes de las ciencias sociales y naturales con el propósito último de comprender y remediar los problemas socioambientales de barrios ...
Gustavo Curutchet +2 more
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Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications [PDF]
This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms in a developing country context. Theoretical and empirical studies in advanced economies underline the significance of local knowledge ...
Kesidou, Effie, Szirmai, Adam
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Ecology and EvolutionTanzania is home to three species of pangolins: Temminck's pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea), and white‐bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis). However, distribution and habitat preferences have yet to be well known
Rose Peter Kicheleri +11 more
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Frontiers in ClimateIntroductionTraditionally, local communities have relied on practical observations accumulated over extended periods to inform their decision-making.
Gwendolyn Smith +2 more
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Knowledge Loss Managing Local Knowledge in Rural Uzbekistan [PDF]
, 2011 Knowledge loss is not a remote phenomenon, unique to one knowledge system. Rather we argue that the loss of knowledge is an issue for other knowledge systems as well. Knowledge loss is certainly a concern for anthropologists working on indigenous knowledge, fearful of ‘losing’ indigenous knowledge entirely as a result of modernisation (cf.
Wall, Caleb, Evers, Hans-Dieter
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Using Local Knowledge to Shrink the Individual Carbon Footprint [PDF]
, 2009 Entire texts have been devoted to exploring the meaning of the term “lifestyle” and sociological understandings of lifestyle are complex and nuanced.For present purposes, however, a more simple articulation of the term will suffice.
Kuh, Katrina Fischer
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Ecology and SocietyThe complementary nature of diverse knowledge systems is increasingly recognized as essential for addressing climate challenges in fisheries management. However, current theoretical frameworks often oversimplify knowledge production and integration as a ...
Yunzhou Li +4 more
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Clusters and Knowledge Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation [PDF]
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of
Andersand Malmberg +2 more
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