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Building trust with marginalized communities in participatory acoustic monitoring through dynamic consent

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract There exists a growing suite of technologies that support significant and exciting progress in biodiversity conservation and research. Citizen scientist participation is common in this research and often focuses on data collection and labeling.
Joycelyn Longdon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring the environment, revitalizing the culture: cenote conservation in Yucatan, Mexico

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Cenotes are sinkholes through which groundwater may be accessed from the Yucatan Peninsula Aquifer. Historically and culturally, cenotes are also important cultural and spiritual natural sites for the Maya, but they have been contaminated and degraded ...
Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado, Fikret Berkes
doaj   +1 more source

Ecosystem Services in Sacred Natural Sites (SNSs) of Uttarakhand: A Preliminary Survey

open access: yesJournal of Biodiversity, 2011
The present work was carried with the aim to document the Sacred Natural Sites in both Garhwal and Kumaon regions of Uttarakhand to access their major ecosystem services benefiting at both regional...
Yogesh Gokhale, Nazir A. Pala
openaire   +1 more source

Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges facing traditional ecological knowledge in the Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo Province, South Africa

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
Although TEK has been marginalised during colonial and apartheid era, over the past four decades, there has been a proliferation of research on TEK at local, regional and international levels.
Ndidzulafhi Innocent Sinthumule
doaj   +1 more source

Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using in‐depth interviews with emerging and early professional museum workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, this article expands on scholarship around the perceived and actual value of nonprofit labor. It adds qualitative support to the argument that museum labor is real labor—open to exploitation and abuse while constantly negotiated internally ...
Miriam Taylor Fair
wiley   +1 more source

Can Spirituality Save Centuries-Old Trees and Forests? A Study from the Mountains of Northwest Greece

open access: yesZygon
The Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) of the Epirus region of Greece are either solitary trees or groups of trees adjacent to churches or old-growth forests associated with villages. SNS contain naturally shaped, centuries-old trees of various species.
Jennifer L.G. Wong   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Editorial Introduction: Waters of Life. Aquatic Sacred Natural Sites

open access: yesEtnološka tribina : Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, 2021
Pre-existing and required for all known forms of life, water uncoincidentally symbolizes life cross-culturally. Called the universal solvent for its chemical properties, water also represents purification and the remission of sin in religions worldwide.
openaire   +1 more source

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