scholarly journals Formation of a Community of Practice in the Watershed Scale, with Integrated Local Environmental Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Kitamura ◽  
Chigusa Nakagawa ◽  
Tetsu Sato
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Local Environmental Knowledge

Schooling and local environmental knowledge: Do they complement or substitute each other?

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Reyes-García ◽  
Eric Kightley ◽  
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén ◽  
Nuria Fuentes-Peláez ◽  
Katie Demps ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Local Environmental Knowledge

Sacred and/or Secular Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation in Thailand

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somporn Juntadach ◽  
Leslie E. Sponsel ◽  
Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel ◽  
Nukul Ruttanadakul
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Local Environmental Knowledge

AbstractWestern approaches to biodiversity are starting to recognise the relevance of local environmental knowledge and community forests, but mostly ignore the conservation potential of sacred places because of their culture bound modernism and scientism. We argue that sacred places are in effect an ancient and widespread system of community based and religiously sanctioned protected areas that promote biodiversity conservation. We also compare the advantages and disadvantages of government and community based protected areas, and consider them to be complementary.

scholarly journals The mental map as an instrument to define indicators in complex systems: an application on the environmental knowledge of local horticultural farmers

2022 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luz Blandi ◽  
Natalia Agustina Gargoloff ◽  
María José Iermanó ◽  
María Fernanda Paleologos ◽  
Santiago Javier Sarandón
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Local Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Two Stages

Abstract: The reductionist and disciplinary paradigm of the Green Revolution coexists with the emerging paradigm of complexity, which values the holistic and the interdisciplinary. Agroecology promotes the need to understand the multiple biophysical relationships that exist in agroecosystems, and this calls for the development of new methodological tools. Sustainability indicators are an example of this. However, their implementation is not simple, as this requires an instrument to simplify the construction of such indicators. The objective of this work is to use the “mental map” as a guide for the development and application of indicators. The graph follows the conceptual path that facilitates the understanding of the variable and its breakdown into smaller and measurable units of analysis, i.e. the indicators. The created mental map has two stages: the development of indicators and their application. Its utility is presented in a case study that addresses local environmental knowledge (LEK). The results of this work show that complexity can be translated into quantifiable, measurable, and comparable variables, without this representing the loss of its characteristics. In addition, it proves that the created tool facilitates the evaluation and understanding of the functioning of agroecosystems, which contributes to decision-making.

scholarly journals Feminist Theology, Plant Names, and Power

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Shannon Craigo-Snell
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Relational Knowledge ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Local Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Biological Environment ◽  
Specific Barriers

Decades ago, feminist theologians emphasized the importance of “naming” in achieving justice. They argued not having a name for something makes it more difficult to understand its influence on our lives. Naming elements of our lived reality (including patriarchy, specific barriers to women’s flourishing, the patterns and values of relationships, and so forth) was seen as key to claiming the power to name ourselves and thereby claiming agency in a world of complex relations and interlocking injustices. Colonialist epistemologies and anthropologies that shape dominant culture in the U.S. prioritize universal over local knowledge, text-based propositions about objects rather than relational knowledge of subjects. While recent science draws attention to the interconnection and interdependence of human persons and our biological environment, there is little value given to local environmental knowledge of plant life. Feminist wisdom implies that this loss of naming for our own environment entails a loss of agency as well as a loss of understanding. Bringing feminist theology into conversation with science and indigenous ways of knowing, this paper argues that we cannot name ourselves if we do not have words for the plants with which we are interconnected on every level from basic sustenance to daily interaction to complex microbiology.

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