[PDF] Top 20 The nature and role of experiential knowledge for environmental conservation

... in-depth knowledge of experts than more reductionist and quantitative ...of experiential knowledge to ...farmers’ knowledge of soils has been used to help make research more applicable to ... See full document

... use these natural resources in a suitable manner in order to avoid its destruction and pollution. It also champions for safe disposal of waste from homes and industries. The Catholic Church also emphasizes an ethics of ... See full document

... of knowledge has political significance in a social context that largely devalues the lives of disabled people and offers predominantly medical model interpretations of life with disability in prenatal testing ... See full document

... directly informed by phase I qualitative data. As the aim of this re- search programme was to explore the nature and spread of attitudes amongst families living with SMA key themes from phase I were ini- tially ... See full document

... the role traditional belief systems and indigenous knowledge and practices have played in the management and conservation of natural environmental resources in the Upper East Region of ... See full document

... the role of protected areas and other ecosystem-based approaches in providing natural solutions for global challenges, and particularly solutions for conserva- tion and sustainability that combine traditional ... See full document

... of knowledge gain after a seven-day field program in several locations in the ...the role of science and technology in society in a pre-test before a visit to a science and technology museum in ...of ... See full document

... and environmental constraints [7, 11, ...indigenous knowledge (IK) for conservation of ecosystems is widely recognized, documentation about its role in the conservation of ...and ... See full document

... underlying environmental conditions (soil type, geology, latitudinal and altitudinal ranges, and the effects of the pronounced west-east oceanicity-continentality gradient), but also the anthropogenic effects of ... See full document

... for environmental scanning, in part through experiential market development, to identify potential sources of desirable ...technological knowledge with its own ... See full document

... diversity knowledge and conservation support has driven investment in numerous conserva- tion initiatives and policies that aim to reconnect people, particularly city dwellers, with nature at local, ... See full document

... In Australia, indigenous people have experienced dispossession and forcible removal from their ancestral land during colonisation. Losing their land and their traditional livelihoods has been a very traumatising ... See full document

... to environmental protection and nature conservation in many ways, for instance by improving soil porosity which yields higher infi ltration rates and thus contributes signifi cantly towards mitigating ... See full document

... the nature of the research they do, whereas the policymaker wants to hav nformation from the scientists, irrespective of whether it’s actually brilliant science that will get published and will advance the ... See full document

... critical role at the interface of science and policy, where their particular job is to certify the value of the commodities traded, constrained by the material and social constellations of power in ecosystem ... See full document

... of knowledge and its inculcation of a particular ...between nature and the supernatural, contrasting the domain of the sacred with profane behaviour, considering mystical expe- rience as something rooted in ... See full document

... The environmental protections negotiated through debt-for-nature swaps fall into at least two basic categories. First, debtor nations may agree to establish conservation[r] ... See full document

... of environmental degradation, environmental issues have increasingly become a focus of global ...of knowledge and information in promoting environmental protection, research involving people’s ... See full document

... on knowledge that has emerged from interpersonal neurobiology and the group dynamics literature, we recently developed and tested the efficacy of a group- mediated weight loss intervention for sedentary, obese ... See full document

... Our ability to understand the manner and magnitude of airspace use by animals, namely birds, bats, and insects is linked to our ability to detect individuals or groups in flight, and the same holds for related ... See full document