Local Knowledge in the Assessment of Resource Sustainability: Case Studies in Himachal Pradesh, India, and British Columbia, Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Duffield ◽  
J. S. Gardner ◽  
F. Berkes ◽  
R. B. Singh
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Resource Sustainability

Track 2.a Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sucharita BENIWAL ◽  
Sahil MATHUR ◽  
Lesley-Ann NOEL ◽  
Cilla PEMBERTON ◽  
Suchitra BALASUBRAHMANYAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Local Practices

The aim of this track was to question the divide between the nature of knowledge understood as experiential in indigenous contexts and science as an objective transferable knowledge. However, these can co-exist and inform design practices within transforming social contexts. The track aimed to challenge the hegemony of dominant knowledge systems, and demonstrate co-existence. The track also hoped to make a case for other systems of knowledges and ways of knowing through examples from native communities. The track was particularly interested in, first, how innovators use indigenous and cultural systems and frameworks to manage or promote innovation and second, the role of local knowledge and culture in transforming innovation as well as the form of local practices inspired innovation. The contributions also aspired to challenge through examples, case studies, theoretical frameworks and methodologies the hegemony of dominant knowledge systems, the divides of ‘academic’ vs ‘non-academic’ and ‘traditional’ vs ‘non-traditional’.

scholarly journals Multispecies sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph D. D. Rupprecht ◽  
Joost Vervoort ◽  
Chris Berthelsen ◽  
Astrid Mangnus ◽  
Natalie Osborne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Resource Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Concept

Non-technical summary The sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to recognize that humans and other living beings depend on each other for their well-being. We therefore argue that true sustainability can only be achieved if the interdependent needs of all species of current and future generations are met, and propose calling this ‘multispecies sustainability’. We explore the concept through visualizations and scenarios, then consider how it might be applied through case studies involving bees and healthy green spaces.

scholarly journals Longer distance cycling for interspecies mobility justice in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Scott
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Number

This article explores how longer distance cycling can advance interspecies mobility justice, a theory of (im)mobilities and justice that includes other-than-human persons and habitats as worthy of our positive moral obligations. I argue that longer distance cycling can advance interspecies mobility justice by promoting socially inclusive and ecologically good cycling practices that redress the active travel poverty of marginalized and colonized populations, while replacing rather than augmenting auto roads with active travel routes that help humans respect other species. The article theorizes longer distance cycling not as some specific number of kilometres, but rather as the social production of cycling space across gentrified central cities, struggling inner suburbs, outer exurbs and rural countrysides. To explore this argument my analysis focuses on Canada, an extreme context for longer distance cycling. I offer a comparison of two case studies, situated on the country’s west and east coasts, Vancouver, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia, drawing on an ongoing ethnographic study of cycling practices and politics in Canada.  

Wilsoniana occidentalis. [Distribution map].

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Spinacia Oleracea ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Wilsoniana occidentalis (Wilson) Abdul Haq & Shahzads. Oomycota: Albuginales: Albuginaceae. Host: spinach (Spinacia oleracea). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Asia (China, India, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey), Europe (Greece, Crete), North America (Canada, British Columbia, Ontario, Mexico, United States, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming).

Mycosphaerella iridis. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Minter
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Himachal Pradesh

Abstract A description is provided for Mycosphaerella iridis, a terrestrial fungus, parasitic and causing brownish spots on the distal parts of older leaves. Some information on its habitats, economic impacts, dispersal and transmission and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe), North America (Canada (British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskachewan, Quebec), USA (California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, New jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming), South America (Venezuela), Asia (Armenia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir), Iran, Kazakhstan (Alma-Atinskaya oblast, Chimkentskaya oblast), Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan), Australasia (New Zealand), Caribbean (St. Vincent), Europe (Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Leningradskaya oblast, Novgorodskaya oblast, Pskovskaya oblast, Yaroslavskaya oblast), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK))) and hosts.

Arcyria stipata. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. Krivomaz
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Himachal Pradesh

Abstract A description is provided for Arcyria stipata, usually found on dead wood and occasionally on other substrata. Some information on its morphology, associated organisms and substrata, interactions and habitats, dispersal and transmission and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Panama, Canada [British Columbia and Ontario], USA [Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia], Colombia, Venezuela, China, India [Himachal Pradesh], Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Russia, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and UK).

scholarly journals Innovative Affordable Housing Strategies for Vancouver

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Duffus
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Beautiful City

Vancouver, British Columbia is a very attractive place to live for many reasons, but the high cost of housing in this beautiful city has become a threat to the future prosperity of the region. As housing prices continue to rise and become less attainable to low and medium income earners, innovative strategies to provide new supply of affordable housing will need to be implemented. The paper outlines a variety of housing solutions that have already had success in the Vancouver area and elsewhere. Case studies are brought together in this document to highlight the potential that combining and replicating successful housing models can have for Vancouver. Through creative solutions and strong partnerships, Vancouver can become a world leader in innovative housing provision in the face of extreme market conditions and land constraints.

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