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What can communities teach us? | IUCN Library System

Indigenous and Local communities are keepers of valuable environmental knowledge accumulated over generations.

The importance of Indigenous and local people for cataloging ...

ILPs knowledge faces growing cultural and biological threats. Greater participation by ILPs in research would make science more efficient, conservation more ...

Indigenous and local knowledge systems in wildlife conservation ...

The integration of indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) has recently emerged as a method to improve understanding of wildlife in socio-ecological landscapes.

: Informing decision‐making with Indigenous and local knowledge ...

This Special Feature explores the benefits and challenges of working with, and ensuring the fair implementation of, different knowledge systems.

Indigenous and Local knowledge: a Precious Tool for Climate ...

Indigenous knowledge helps us make better sense of the current climate change crisis and find ways to ensure a future for our planet.

Protecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge Through a Biocultural ...

This paper discusses two cases in Colombia where the biocultural framework was used to advance the protection of ILK through the recognition of community-land ...

Mobilisation of indigenous and local knowledge as a source of ...

Summary. Mobilising indigenous and local knowledge systems has the potential to make their critical knowledge about landscapes and biodiversity meaningful as ...

Local, indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices - UNFCCC

In the current context of rapid climate change, local, indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices contributes fine-grained, long-term observations about ...

Climate Solutions from Indigenous and Local Knowledge

Indigenous communities with deep regional knowledge can help stave off the worst effects of climate change and restore the continent's ...

Indigenous and Local Knowledge's Role in Social Movement's ...

In this article we focus on the role that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) plays in the social movement's struggles against threats to their CBNRM system.

what is the difference? An informetrics perspective - Emerald Insight

The traditional knowledge or indigenous knowledge can be found in multitude fields such as nutrition, agriculture and fisheries, human health, ...

Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and ...

Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and ...

Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science ...

The need to understand nature's contributions to people and across a broad spectrum of cultures and ecosystems is increasingly advocated in ...

A review of indigenous and local knowledge conservation initiatives

Despite its relative adaptive capacity and its many values, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is rapidly eroding.

Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local ...

The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of ...

United Nations and the Mobilisation of Indigenous and Local ...

Indigenous and Local Knowledge is now highlighted in major UN environmental instruments and agreements. IPBES and IPCC both emphasise the importance of ILK ...

Indigenous and Local Knowledge Contributions to Social-Ecological ...

Indigenous and local knowledge systems (1) draw on conceptualizations of nature that contribute to the long-term maintenance of functioning social-ecological ...

Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations ...

Through a systematic literature review, we investigated how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is represented in peer-reviewed empirical ...

Acknowledging Indigenous and Local Knowledge to Facilitate ...

The need to recognize diverse actors, their knowledge and values is being widely promoted as critical for sustainability in contemporary land use, ...

Theory of Knowledge Resources: Indigenous Knowledge Systems

“Indigenous knowledge systems explore local knowledge unique to a particular culture or society. The term usually refers to the knowledge ...


The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Book by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark