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2007. Traditional forest knowledge: Challenges and opportunities. Forest Ecology and Management 249.
Author's Keywords: conservation, indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, forest history, sustainable forest management, Cultural landscapes, Heritage |
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Agrawal, Arun. 2002. Indigenous knowledge and the politics of classification. UNESCO.
ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, standardization, IK |
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Armitage, Derek R. 2003. Traditional agroecological knowledge, adaptive mangement and the socio-politics of conservation in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Environmental Conservation 30:79-90.
Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, environmental policy, community-based management, agroecosystems, ecosystems ACSC Keywords: conservation, indonesia, Sulawesi, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge |
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Aswani, Shankar and Hamilton, Richard J. 2004. Integrating indigenous ecological knowledge and customary sea tenure with marine and social science for conservation of bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Environmental Conservation 31:69-83.
Author's Keywords: conservation, bumphead parrotfish, customary sea tenure, indigenous ecological knowledge, marine science, marine protected areas, social science, Solomon Islands ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, TEK, human |
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Attwell, C. A. M. and Cotterill, F. P. D. 2000. Postmodernism and African conservation science. Biodiversity and Conservation 9:559-577.
Author's Keywords: ecology, conservation, africa, knowledge, deconstruction, science, sociology ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, indigenous knowledge, IK, sustainable development, agriculture |
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Balram, Shivanand, Suzana, Dragićević, and Meredith, Thomas. 2004. A collaborative GIS method for integrating local and technical knowledge in establishing biodiversity conservation priorities. Biodiversity and Conservation 13:1195-1208.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity conservation, collaborative gis, data management, geographic information systems (gis), local and technical experts ACSC Keywords: management, community, indigenous knowledge, landscape, participation, decision-making, information, MODEL |
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Becker, C. Dustin and Ghimire, Kabita. 2003. Synergy between traditional ecological knowledge and conservation science supports forest preservation in Ecuador. Conservation Ecology 8:-.
ACSC Keywords: scale, institutions, indigenous knowledge, IK, protected areas, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, PAs, attitudes about biodiversity |
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Berkes, Fikret, Colding, Johan, and Folke, Carl. 2000. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications 10:1251-1262.
Author's Keywords: resource management, resilience, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge, human ecology, social learning ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, TEK, science |
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Berkes, Fikret. 2004. Rethinking community-based conservation. Conservation Biology 18:621-630.
Author's Keywords: scale, common property, Community-based Conservation, social-ecological systems, participation, comanagement, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge ACSC Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge |
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Berkes, Fikret and Turner, Nancy J. 2006. Knowledge, learning and the evolution of conservation practice for social-ecological system resilience. 34:479-494.
Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, conservation, institutions, indigenous knowledge, resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive learning |
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Bielawski, Ellen. 1984. "Inuit indigenous knowledge and science in the Arctic," in Anthropological Observations on Science in the North: The Role of the Scientist in Human Development in the Northwest Territones, pp. 216-227.
ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, Inuit |
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Bollig, Michael and Schulte, Anja. 1999. Environmental change and pastoral perceptions: Degradation and indigenous knowledge in two African pastoral communities. Human Ecology 27:493-514.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, environmental degradation, African pastoralists |
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Briggs, John. 2005. The use of indigenous knowledge in development: Problems and challenges. Progess in Development Studies 5:99-114.
Author's Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge, power relations, indigenous environmental knowledge |
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Brosius, J. P. 1997. Endangered forest, endangered people: Environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge. Human Ecology 25:47-69.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, environmentalism, rainforests, penan, borneo |
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Cleveland, David A. 1998. Balancing on a planet: Toward an agricultural anthropology for the twenty-first century. Human Ecology 26:323-340.
Author's Keywords: ecology, sustainability, africa, population, indigenous knowledge, agricultural intensification, sustainable agriculture, population and agriculture, ecological economics, carrying-capacity ACSC Keywords: IK, NGOs, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK |
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Davidson-Hunt, I. J. 2006. Adaptive learning networks: Developing resource management knowledge through social learning forums. Human Ecology 34:593-614.
Author's Keywords: resource management, indigenous knowledge, social learning, adaptive learning |
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DeWalt, Billie R. 1994. Using indigenous knowledge to improve agriculture and natural resource management. Human Organization 53:123-131.
Author's Keywords: natural resource management, agriculture, indigenous knowledge systems, philosophy of science ACSC Keywords: natural resource management, indigenous knowledge, science |
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Ellis, D. and West, P. 2000. Local history as "indigenous Knowledge": Aeroplanes, conservation and development. Association of Social Anthropology 2000 Conference on Indigenous Knowledge.
ACSC Keywords: community, indigenous knowledge, IK, local, Papua New Guinea |
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Fernandez-Gimenez, M. E., Huntington, H. P., and Frost, K. J. 2006. Integration or co-optation? Traditional knowledge and science in the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee. 33:306-315.
Author's Keywords: common property, common pool resources, indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, co-management, environmental impact assessment, cooperative research |
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Fernando, Jude L. 2003. NGOs and production of indigenous knowledge under the condition of postmodernity. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 590:54-72.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, sustainable development, NGOs, inequality, power, capitalism |
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Filer, C. 2004. Hotspots and Handouts: Illusions of Conservation and Development in Papua New Guinea.
ACSC Keywords: scale, development, biodiversity, conservation, indigenous knowledge, IK, NGOs, local knowledge, critique, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, hotspot |
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Foale, S. Commensurability of scientific and indigenous ecological knowledge in coastal Melanesia: Implications for contemporary marine resource management strategies. Resource Management in Asia-Pacific.
ACSC Keywords: conservation, indigenous knowledge, IK |
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Gadgil, M., Berkes, F., and Folke, C. 1993. Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation. Ambio 22:151-156.
ACSC Keywords: ecology, indigenous knowledge, IK, sustainable development, globalization, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, aquaculture, harvest taboos, acculturation, scale of knowledge systems |
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Goldman, M. 2007. Tracking wildebeest, locating knowledge: Maasai and conservation biology understandings of wildebeest behavior in Northern Tanzania. Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 25:307-331.
ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, politics, indigenous knowledge, ecosystem, landscapes, Tanzania, pastoralism, Serengeti, land, east-africa, savanna |
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Goldman, Mara. 2003. Partitioned nature, privileged knowledge: Community-based conservation in Tanzania. Development and Change 34:833-862.
ACSC Keywords: development, CBC, Community-based Conservation, africa, knowledge, indigenous knowledge, IK, community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, human, Tanzania, participatory |
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Hellier, Augustine, Newton, Adrian C., and Gaona, Susana Ochoa. 1999. Use of indigenous knowledge for rapidly assessing trends in biodiversity: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 8:869-889.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, Mexico, rapid rural appraisal, Rapid biodiversity assessment |
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Howitt, R. 2000. "Scale and the other: Embodiment, empacement and infinity," in , pp. 1-27. Sydney.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, geographical scale, difference, cultural geography, embodiment, emplacement, Levinas ACSC Keywords: scale, South America, marine, Brazil, stakeholder |
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Kajembe, G. C. and Rutatora, D. F. 1999. "Indigenous knowledge and natural resources management," in Agrarian Economy, State and Society in Contemporary Tanzania - The Making of Modern Africa. Edited by Peter G. Forster and Sam Maghimbi, pp. 116-125. England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
ACSC Keywords: management, indigenous knowledge, local people, UNCED, Tanzania, natural resources, local communities |
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King, SR, Carlson, TJ, and Moran, K. 1996. Biological diversity, indigenous knowledge, drug discovery and intellectual property rights: Creating reciprocity and maintaining relationships. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 51:45-57.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, biological diversity, reciprocity, drug discovery, PREVALENCE |
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Luoga, E. J., Witkowski, E. T. F., and Balkwill, Kevin. 2000. Differential utilization and ethnobotany of trees in Kitulanghalo forest reserve and surrounding communal lands, Eastern Tanzania. Economic Botany 54:328-343.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, Tanzania, participatory rural appraisal, miombo woodlands, tree use values ACSC Keywords: conservation, timber, communal land, Ethnobotany, medicinal plants, Kitulanghalo Forest Reserve, Differential utlization, harvest |
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Mauro, Francesco and Hardison, Preston D. 2000. Traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities: International debate and policy initiatives. Ecological Applications 10:1263-1269.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, sustainable development, traditional ecological knowledge, local communities, conservation and sustainable use, convention on biological diversity, indigenous peoples and communities |
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Moran, E. F. 1993. "Managing Amazonian variability with indigenous knowledge," in Tropical Forests, People and Food: biocultural interactions and applications to development. Edited by Hladik, C. M., Hladik, A., Linares, O. F., Pagezy, H., Semple, A., and Hadley, M., pp. 753-766. Paris: The Parthenon Publishing Group.
ACSC Keywords: forests, indigenous knowledge, IK, South America, Amazon |
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Nazarea, Virginia D. 2006. Local knowledge and memory in biodiversity conservation. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:317-335.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, landscape, place, cultural memory, sensory embodiment |
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Ngulube, Patrick. 2002. Managing and Preserving Indigenous Knowledge in the Knowledge Management Era: challenges and opportunities for information professionals. Information Development 18:95-101.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, knowledge management, information professionals, collection development, intellectual property rights, preservation media |
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Parlee, Brenda, Berkes, Fikret, and Gwich'in, Teetl'it. 2006. Indigenous knowledge of ecological variability and commons management: A case study on berry harvesting from Northern Canada. Human Ecology 34:515-528.
Author's Keywords: common property, institutions, indigenous knowledge, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge, land use, Dene, Gwich’in, cranberry, blueberry, cloudberry |
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Purcell, Trevor W. 1998. Indigenous knowledge and applied anthropology: Questions of definition and direction. Human Organization 57:258-272.
Author's Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge, applied anthropology, Knowledge systems, indigenous autonomy |
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Rahman, S. A., Imam, M. H., Wachira, S. W., Farhana, K. M., Torres, B., and Kabir, D. M. H. 2008. Land use patterns and the scale of adoption of agroforestry in the rural landscapes of Padma floodplain in Bangladesh. Forest, Trees and Livelihoods 18:16.
Author's Keywords: indigenous knowledge, alley cropping, boundary planting, hedgerows, socio-economic benefits ACSC Keywords: Bangladesh |
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Ross, A. and Pickering, K. 2002. The Politics of Reiniegratinig Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: The Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival. Human Ecology 30:187-214.
Author's Keywords: natural resource management, indigenous knowledge, American Indians, ABORIGINAL Australians |
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Ross, Anne. "Scientists, politicians, bureacrats and indigenous knowledge: Obstacles to collaborative conservation in Australia," in : University of Queensland.
Author's Keywords: natural resource management, indigenous knowledge, American Indians, ABORIGINAL Australians |
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Scoones, Ian. 1999. New ecology and the social sciences: What prospects for a fruitful engagement?. Annual Review of Anthropology 28:479-507.
Author's Keywords: environmental change, nonequilibrium ecology, environmental social science ACSC Keywords: scale, management, anthropology, political ecology, history, indigenous knowledge, agency, research agenda, multiple stable states, global environmental-change, cultural-geography, developing-countries, environmental economics |
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Sillitoe, Paul. 1998. The development of indigenous knowledge. Current Anthropology 39:223-252.
ACSC Keywords: development, community, indigenous knowledge, participation |
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Stone, Glenn Davis. 2007. Agricultural deskilling and the spread of genetically modified cotton in Warangal. Current Anthropology 48:67-103.
ACSC Keywords: anthropology, indigenous knowledge, farmers, developing-countries, adoption, BT-COTTON, INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION, TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE, TRANSGENIC COTTON, CEentral India |
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Walley, Christine J. 2002. 'They scorn us because we are uneducated': Knowledge and power in a Tanzanian marine park. Ethnography 3:265-298.
Author's Keywords: development, indigenous knowledge, environment, ecotourism, participation, science, Tanzania |
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Xu, Jianchu and Melick, David R. 2007. Rethinking the effectiveness of public protected areas in southwestern China. Conservation Biology 21:318-328.
Author's Keywords: biodiversity, forest management, indigenous knowledge, ecosystem services, community conservation ACSC Keywords: management, forests, WORLD-PARKS-CONGRESS, NORTHWEST YUNNAN, XISHUANGBANNA, CONVERSION, POLICIES, SITES |
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Zent, Stanford. 2000. A genealogy of scientific perspectives of indigenous knowledge. .
ACSC Keywords: conservation, indigenous knowledge, IK, sustainable development, indigenous, ethnobiology, ethnoscience |
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Zerner, Charles. 1996. "Telling stories about biological diversity," in Valuing local knowledge: Indigenous people and intellectual property rights. Edited by Brush, Stephen B. and Stabinsky, Doreen, pp. xiv, 337. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge/ traditional ecological knowledge |