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GENERAL
“Coming to Understanding: Developing Conservation through Incremental Learning”
by Nancy J. Turner
“Indigenous Peoples’ and the Global Environment: A Review Document”
by Pauline Bain
“Indigenous Knowledge of the Rainforest: Perception, Extraction and Conservation”
by Roy Ellen
“Four Neglected Issues in the Traditional Knowledge Debate”
by Peter K. Yu
“The Usefulness of Traditional Knowledge: Myth or Reality?”
by Fikret Berkes and Thomas Henley
“Indigenous Traditions and Ecology”
by John A. Grim
“Co-Management and Traditional Knowledge: Threat orOpportunity?”
by Fikret Berkes and Thomas Henley
“Exploring the Basic Ecological Unit: Ecosystem-like Concepts in Traditional Societies”
by Fikret Berkes, et al.
“Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management”
by Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke
“Ecological Citizenship: The Democratic Promise of Restoration”
by Andrew Light
“The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge”
Archive of theSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Systematic Biology
“Ecological Ethnobotany: Stumbling Toward New Practices and Paradigms”
by Iain Davidson-Hunt
“The Nature and Utility of Traditional Ecological Knowledge”
by Milton M.R. Freeman
“Indigenous Knowledge is Integral”
by Azzurra Carpo
“Putting Local Knowledge to Good Use”
by D.M. Warren and B. Rajasekaran
“Claiming and Using Indigenous Knowledge”
by Helen Appleton, et al.
“Threads of Common Knowledge”
by Paul Icamina
“Indigenous Knowledge, Peoples and Sustainable Practice”
from the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change
“Dominant Knowledge Systems and Local Knowledge”
by John Studley
“Research on Traditional Environmental Knowledge: Its Development and Its Role”
by Martha Johnson
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Learning with Sustainability in Mind”
by Alan Reid, Kelly Teamey, and Justin Dillion
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Impact Assessment”
by Bob Gibson
“Patterns and Processes of Indigenous Burning: How to Read Landscape Signatures of Past Human Practices”
by Linda E. Storm
“The Conservation Economy: A Capital Idea”
by EcotrustCanada
“Back to the Future: Ecosystem Dynamics and Local Knowledge”
by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke
BIODIVERSITY
“Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations and the Convention on Biological Diversity”
prepared by the Indigenous People´s Biodiversity Network (IPBN)
“Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity”
by Victor Toledo
“Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity Conservation and Development”
by D. M. Warren
“Living on the Edge: Ecological and Cultural Edges as Sources of Diversity for Social-Ecological Resilience”
by Nancy J. Turner, et al.
“Agri-environmental Practices to Preserve Biodiversity and Landscape”
by Laszlo Podmaniczky, et al.
“When All Peoples have the Same Story, Humans will Cease to Exist: Protecting and Conserving Traditional Knowledge”
A Report for the Biodiversity Convention Office
“Draft Guide to Best Practices: Managing Agricultural Resources for Biodiversity Conservation”
compiled by Barbara Gemmill
“Traditional Knowledge Systems for Biodiversity Conservation”
by Deep Narayan Pandey
“Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the World and Ecoregion-Based Conservation: an Integrated Approach to Conserving the World’s Biological and Cultural Diversity”
WWF International and Terralingua
“Access to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation in China”
by Xue Dayuan
Links to
Papers on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
including those prepared for the UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Systems and National Experiences for Protecting Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices
AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY
“The Demise of ‘Common Heritage’ and Protection for Traditional Agricultural Knowledge”
by Stephen B. Brush
“Local Knowledge for Sustainable Forestry and Livelihood Security”
by Deep Narayan Pandey
“The Dilemma of Indian Forestry”
by Winona LaDuke
“A Citizen’s Call for Ecological Forest Restoration: Forest Restoration Principles and Criteria”
by Dominick A. DellaSala, et al.
“Sustainable Practices Using Indigenous Knowledge”
ICIMOD
“Indigenous Knowledge or Sustainable Mountain Development”
ICIMOD
“Aboriginal Forestry in New Brunswick: Conflicting Paradigms”
by Sherrie Blakney
“Indigenous Peoples and Forests: Restoring Historical Rights”
by Ashesh Ambasta
“Changing Resource Management Paradigms, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Non-Timber Forest Products”
by Iain J. Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes
“Non Timber Forest Products: Considerations for Tribal Forestry”
by Eric T. Jones
“Indigenous Farming Systems, Practices and Knowledge: Some Examples”
by C. Reijntjes, B. Haverkort, and A. Waters-Bayer
“Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Management? From Commodity to Process”
by M.G. Stevenson
“Building Knowledge and Facilitating Learning through Adaptive Community Forest Management”
by Pradeep Kumar Nayak
“Traditional Knowledge in Forest Conservation: Case Study of The Malshegu Community, Ghana”
by Edmund Asare
“Local Traditional Knowledge and Global Environmental Programs: Prospects for Interaction”
by Tamara Semenova
“Women’s Participation in Forest Management Decisions in the Upper Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India”
by Kristin Bingerman
“Using Traditional Environmental Knowledge for ForestManagement”
by Curt Ostrodka
“Communities, Knowledge and Biodiversity: Theoretical Orientation of Ethnoforestry”
by Deep Narayan Panday
Links to papers on
Indigenous Agricultural and Environmental Knowledge Systems
CLIMATE CHANGE
“The Fate of Indigenous Communities under Climate Change”
by Osvaldo F. Canziani and Luis Mata
“Local Knowledge for Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific: Policy Implications”
by Ancha Srinivasan
“The Machu Picchu Model: Climate Change and Agricultural Diversity”
by Craig Benjamin
“The Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives”
by Henry P. Huntington
“Coping and Adapting to Climate Variability: The Role of Assets, Networks, Knowledge and Institutions”
by Corrinne Valdivia, et al.
“Contributions of Traditional Knowledge to Understanding Climate Change in the Canadian Artic”
by Dyanna Riedlinger and Fikret Berkes
“Climate Change and the Inuvialuit of Banks Island, NWT: Using Traditional Environmental Knowledge to Complement Western Science”
by Dyanna Riedlinger
“Global Warming will make Traditional Climatic Knowledge Irrelevant”
by Edward Goldsmith
TEK & WESTERN SCIENCE
"Science and culture"
by Maurizio Iaccarino
"Let's not get too romantic about traditional knowledge"
by David Dickson
“Indigenous Sustainability Science”
by Deep Narayan Pandey
“Traditional Knowledge is Science”
by George Hobson
“The Survival Path: Cooperation between Indigenous and Industrial Humanity”
Proceedings of the UN Policy Meeting on Indigenous Peoples
“Western Science and Traditional Knowledge – No Gap to Bridge”
by Jack Dowie
“Ethnobiology/Ethnoecology in the Contemporary World: Towards a New Inter-disciplinary and Inter-cultural Science”
by Darrell A. Posey
“Linking Science and Indigenous Knowledge for Local Environmental Management”
by Arthur Lyon Dahl
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
"Spotlight on Protecting Indigenous Knowledge"
"Global Legislation on Indigenous Knowledge"
by Anju Sharma
"The Role of Registers and Databases in the Protection of Traditional Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis"
by the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies
“Protection of Rights of Holders of Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities”
by Lars Anders Baer
“Bioprospecting/Biopiracy and Indigenous Peoples”
“Summary of Symposium on Scholarship, Intellectual Ownership and the Law”
Hosted by the National Academies Forum and the National Library of Australia
“Who Owns Traditional Knowledge”
by Ajeet Mathur
“Access and Control of Indigenous Knowledge in Libraries and Archives: Ownership and Future Use”
by Jane Anderson
“Intellectual Property Rights: A Reference Paper for Protecting Language and Culture in the Digital Age”
by Leslie Barnhart
“Traditional Knowledge of Biodiversity in Asia-Pacific: Problems of Piracy and Protection”
GRAIN and Kalavriksh
“Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity: The Role of Intellectual Property Protection”
by Anil Gupta
“Towards an International Regime for Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Reflections on the Role of Intellectual Property Rights”
by Brendan Tobin
“New Meanings for Old Knowledge: The People’s Biodiversity Registers Program”
by Madhav Gadgil, et al.
“Economic Development and Traditional Knowledge: A Deadlock? Data from a Amerindian Society”
by Victoria Reyes-Garcia, et al.
RITUAL & BELIEF
"The Sacred and the Scientific: TEK in Siberian River Conservation"
by Kheryn Klubnikin et al
“The Relations among Threatened Species, Their Protection, and Taboos”
by Johan Colding and Carl Folke
“Religious Traditions and Biodiversity”
by Fikret Berkes
“A Green Future for Religion?”
by Bron Taylor
“Building on Pastoralists’ Cosmovisions”
by Ilse Kohler-Rollefson and Hanwant Singh Rathore
“Integrating Sacred Knowledge for Conservation: Cultures and Landscapes in SW China”
by Xu Jianchu, et al.
“Sacred Law and Traditional Wisdom: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Peoples”
by Tom Stephens
“The Indigenous Way ~ Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution”
by Elisabet Sahtouris
“Indigenous Views of Land and the Environment”
World Bank Discussion Paper
“Cosmovisions and Environmental Governance: The Case of In Situ Conservation of Native Cultivated Plants and their Wild Relatives in Peru”
by Jorge Ishizawa
EDUCATION
“Teachers’ Views on Aboriginal Students Learning Western and Aboriginal Science”
by Glen Aikenhead
“Integrating Western and Aboriginal Sciences: Cross-Cultural Science Teaching”
by Glen Aikenhead
“The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Education for Community-Based Resource Management”
by Shaileshkumar Shukla and James S. Gardner
“Plugging in Indigenous Knolwedge: Connections and Innovations”
by David Nathan
“Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Globalization”
by Gemma Burford, et al.
“Ecology Teaching in India and in Developing Countries”
by P.S. Ramakrishnan
“Opening Doors to the Future: Applying Local Knowledge in Curriculum Development”
by Veronica Ignas
“Pre-Service Teachers Explore Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Science Methods Class”
by Gloria Snively and John Corsiglia
“The Preservation and Maintenance of the Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: The Role of Education”
by Zane Ma Rhea
“Enshrining Indigenous Knowledge in the National Science Curriculum: Issues Arising from the Maori Case”
by Michael E. Jones and Joshua Hunter
NATIVE AMERICAN
"Knowledge sharing vital to Bolivian tribes"
by Katie Mantel
“Cultural Foundations for Ecological Restoration on theWhite Mountain Apache Reservation”
by Jonathan Long, Aregai Tecle, and Benrita Burnette
“Spiritual Significance and Environmental Effects of Offerings amongst the Indigenous People of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta”
by Guillermo E. Rodriguez-Navarro
“The American Indian Knowledge of the Natural World”
by R.H. Pierce
“Ecology, Cognition, and Cultural Transmission of Tzeltal Maya Medicinal Plant Knowledge”
by David Gregory Casagrande
“Tomols & Healthy Watersheds”
by Julie Cordero
“Through the Eyes of Sk’lep ~ A Vision of Ecosystem Stewardship in the Deadman Watershed”
by Dave Moore
“Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Community Economic Development in British Columbia Fish and ForestDependent Communities”
by Kelly Vodden and Jennifer Gunter
“Bridging Ecological Restoration and Language Revitalization: Efforts in Native American Communities”
Northern Arizona University
“We Once Hunted for Buffalo, We Now Hunt for Knowledge: The Instructional Leadership of Chief Joseph Chasing Horse”
by Richard Shope
“Society, Culture and Environmental Adaptability in Central and South America”
by Laura Rival
“Nurturing the Seed in Peru”
by Tirso Gonzales, Nestor Chambi, and Marcela Machaca
“In Search of Middle Ground: Indigenous Peoples, Collective Representation and the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent”
by Marcus Colchester and Fergus MacKay
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Marginalization, Appropriation and Continued Disillusion”
by Leanne Simpson
“Native Struggles for Land and Life”
An Interview withWinona LaDuke
“Australian and United States Law of Aboriginal LandRights: A Comparative Perspective”
by A. Dan Tarlock
“The “Elder Brothers”, Guardians of the “Heart of the World”: Indigenous Knowledge as an Innovative Contribution to the Sustainable Development of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia”
by Guillermo Enrique Rodríguez-Navarro
“Investigation of the Potential for the Utilization of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Development of Community-based Resource Management and Conservation Strategies in Guyanese Amerindian communities, with particular reference to human-animal interactions”
by Thomas Henfrey
“Holistic Risk-Based Environmental Decision Making: A Native Perpsective”
by Mary Arquette, et al.
“Market Integration and the Distribution of Ecological Knowledge within an Ecuadorian Fishing Community”
by Greg Guest
ARCTIC AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
“Loss of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Western James Bay Region of Northern Ontario, Canada”
by Leanard J.S. Tsuji
“Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Tsimshian Curriculum: Keeping Knowledge in the Community”
by Edo sdi/Judith C. Thompson
“Water: A First Nation’s Spiritual and Ecological Perspective”
by Michael Blackstock
“Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition”
by Julie Cruikshank
“Solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons: Sea-urchin Management in St. Lucia, West Indies”
by Allan H. Smith and Fikret Berkes
“Community-Based Use of Mangrove Resources in St. Lucia”
by Allan H. Smith and Fikret Berkes
“The Canadian Arctic and the Ocean Act: the Development of Participatory Environmental Research and Management”
by Fikret Berkes, et al.
“Contributions of Traditional Knowledge to Understanding Climate Change in the Canadia Arctic”
by Dyanna Riedlinger and Fikret Berkes
“Making Sense of Arctic Environmental Change?”
by Fikret Berkes
“Contributions of Inuit Ecological Knowledge to Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on theBathurst Caribou Herd in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut”
by Natasha Leight Thorpe
“Global Environmental Change: An Inuit Reality”
by Violet Ford
“Voices from White Earth: Gaawaabaabiganikaag”
by Winona LaDuke
“A Mass-Balanced Model of Trophic Flows in Prince William Sound: Decompartmentalizing Ecosystem Knowledge”
by Thomas A. Okey and Daniel Pauly
“First Nations Perspectives on the Grasslands of the Interior of British Columbia”
by Michael D. Blackstock and Rhonda McAllister
“The Role of Local Ecological Knowledge in Sustainable Urban Planning: Perspectives from Finland”
by Vesa Yli-Pelkonen and Johanna Kohl
“Ground Work: Basic Concepts of Ecological Restoration inBritish Columbia”
by Donald V. Gayton
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Program”
by Henry P. Huntington
“Voices from the Bay: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion”
compiled by Miriam McDonald, et al.
“Ecological Change in the Hudson Bay Bioregion: A Traditional Ecological Knowledge Perspective”
by Terry Fenge
“Alternatives to Conventional Management: Lessons from Small-Scale Fisheries”
by Fikret Berkes
“The Knowledge Knot: Traditional Knowledge and Access to Aquatic Genetic Resources”
IDRC
“Documenting the Cultural Geography, Biogeography, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of King Island, Alaska”
by Deanna Kingston and Jesse Ford
“An Overview of Native Hawaiian Land and Ocean Management Practices”
by Kepa Maly and Onaona Pomroy-Maly
“Stewards of the Human Landscape: Striking Balance, Preserving Nature and Conserving Culture in the AlaskaEcosystem”
U.S. National Park Service Archeology and Ethnography Program
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Assessment and Management”
by Peter J. Usher
“Co-management of Aboriginal Resources”
by Tracy Campbell
“Integration of Scientific and Local Knowledge in the Protection of Sacred Sites in the Russian Arctic”
by Tatiana Petrova and Tamara Semenova
“The Iñupiaq Supercomputer: What the Whale Hunters Know & Some Scientists Want To Discover”
by Charles Wohlforth
“Protecting the Seagrass Biome”
Report from the Traditional Seagrass Knowledge Working Group
“Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge and Environmental Management”
Science and the Environment Bulletin, Government of Canada
“Hiukitak River Camps: Integrating Western Science and Traditional Inuit Knowledge in Arctic Field Ecology”
by William Gould and Grizelle Gonzalez
“Climate Change Erodes Inuit Knowledge”
by Odile Nelson
“Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge and Bush Skills among the Westrn James Bay Cree Women of SubarcticCanada”
by Kayo Ohmagari and Fikret Berkes
“Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Alaska Native Ways of Knowing”
by Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
“Traditional Whaling in the Western Arctic”
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & THE PACIFIC RIM
"The Lost Seasons"
Australian Broadcast Corporation
“Indigenous Weather Knowledge”
Australian CommonwealthBureau of Meteorology
“Collaborative Management ~ Pre-Conditions and Prospects”
by Peter Horsley
“Conceptualizing Nature: The Politics Behind Allocating and Utilizing Native Forest Resources in New Zealand”
by Gregory Stephen Gullette
“Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Obligations: The Case of the Maori”
by MauiSolomon
“Conflagrations: The Culture, Ecology and Politics of Landscape Burning in the northern Kimberly”
by Tom Vigilante, Sylvester Mangolamarra and David Bowman
“Cross-Cultural Conflicts in Fire Management in Northern Australia”
by Alan Andersen
“Fire as an Aboriginal Management Tool in Southeastern Australia”
by Beth Gott
“Traditional Use of Fire in Central Arnhem Land”
Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre
“Aboriginal Fire Management”
Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre
“Building Bridges: the Contribution of Traditional Knowledge to Ecosystem Management and Practices in Fiji”
by Joeli Veitayaki
“A Methodology for Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Geographic Information Systems for Marine Resource Management in the Pacific”
by Mark A. Calamia
“Aboriginal Natural Resources Management”
by John Chester and Peter Last
“Traditional Environmental Knowledge and Resource Management in New Caledonia”
by Arthur Lyon Dahl
“Contested Knowledges: Fire”
Charles Darwin University
“Some Natural Resource Management Issues for Indigenous People in Northern Australia”
by Benjamin Richard Smith
“Indigenous Knowledge in the Pacific”
by Penehuro Lefale
“Climate Forecasting with Traditional Mâori Knowledge”
by Darren NT King & Apanui Skipper
“Traditional Knowledge – Case Studies from Australia”
“Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnobotany – Matauranga Maori and Taonga”
Waitangi Tribunal
“Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Customary Sea Tenure with Marine and Social Science for Conservation of Bumphead Parrotfish in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands”
by Shankar Aswani and Richard J. Hamilton
“Indigenous Issues and Land/Fire Management”
by David Fell
AFRICA
“The Status and Future of African Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Sustainability of Aquatic Resources”
by Jude Mutuku Mathooko
“Activating Ecological Knowledge: Navigation Practices in the Kalahari Desert”
by Akira Takada
“Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Disaster Reduction inAfrica”
by James Kamara
“Integrating Food Security And Traditional Knowledge: Permaculture Approaches For Poverty Alleviation in South Africa”
by Tshepo Khumbane
“Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Globalization”
by Gemma Burford, Lesikar Ole Ngila, and Yunus Rafiki
“Transforming Traditional Institutions for Sustainable Natural Resource Management: History, Narratives and Evidence from Zimbabwe's Communal Areas”
by Dale Dore
“Interfacing Two Knowledge Systems: Local Knowledge and Science in Africa”
by David Millar
“Ngitili Agrosilvipastoral Systems in the United Republic ofTanzania”
by G.J. Kamwenda
ASIA
"Asia-Pacific Nations Unite on Indigenous Knowledge"
by Jia Hepeng and Anju Sharma
“Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples inAsia”
by Raja Devasish Roy
“Protection of Indigenous Knowledge in India: Different Perspectives”
by Ujjwal Kumar
“Protecting Traditional Knowledge of Small, Scattered and Disadvantaged Grassroots Innovators and Traditional Knowledge Holders: Honey Bee Perspective”
by P. Vivekanandan, et al.
“Strengthening Community-based Conservation through Traditional Ecological Knowledge”
by Shaileshkumar Shukla
“The Padu System of Community-based Fisheries Management: Change and Local Institutional Innovation inSouth India”
by Kenton Lobe and Fikret Berkes
“Adaptive Co-Management Lessons from CoastalCambodia”
by Melissa Marschke and Kim Nong
“Traditional Tree-Crop Practices in Sri Lanka”
by Hemanthi Ranasinghe
“Revitalisation Of The Indigenous Flora (Particularly Medicinal Plants) And Traditional Knowledge Of The Coromandel Coastal Region Of South India”
by Joss Brooks
“Indigenous Practices for Water Harvesting in Bangladesh”
by M.R. Kabir and I.M. Faisal
“Traditional Environmental Protectionism in TibetReconsidered”
by Toni Huber
“Altering Indigenous Farming Practices in Northwestern Himalayas”
by G.S. Singh and K.S. Rao
“Traditional Pest Control and Agricultural Development in the Atolls of the Maldives”
by Danny Hunter
“Promoting Local/Indigenous Knowledge (LINK)-based Sustainable Resource Management”
Lessons from Asia
“Tradition and Conservation in Northeastern India: An Ethical Analysis”
by Abhik Gupta and Kamalesh Guha
“New Meanings for Old Knowledge: The People’s Biodiversity Registers Program”
by Madhav Gadgil, et al.
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