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Open AccessIndigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems
The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts on various local social-ecological systems. Here...
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Open AccessLocal studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and needs receive inadequate attention in c...
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Open AccessClimate change in the Catalan Pyrenees intersects with socioeconomic factors to shape crop diversity and management
Most studies on climate change’s impacts on agriculture focus on modeling techniques based on large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmer’s perception of climate change’s impacts ca...
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Open AccessResponse to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado
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Open AccessRecognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawi...
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Participation in Biocultural Diversity Conservation: Insights from Five Amazonian Examples
The past three decades have seen the emergence of myriads of initiatives focused on conserving, revitalizing, and maintaining Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) as part of biocultural approaches to conservat...
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Storing and sharing: A review of indigenous and local knowledge conservation initiatives
Despite its relative adaptive capacity and its many values, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is rapidly eroding. Over the past decades a myriad of efforts have emerged to prevent this erosion. In this work...
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Indigenous knowledge for conservation
Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is critical for conservation. Yet, gaps in published research on ILK might bias assessments that largely rely on it. Such fragmented documentation calls for alternative app...
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Pruning waste management and climate change in Sierra Mágina’s olive groves (Andalusia, Spain)
In the context of climate change, concern is raising about the negative effects of some pruning waste management practices. On the one hand, burning of pruning residue is seen as controversial regarding its co...
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Globalized Conflicts, Globalized Responses. Changing Manners of Contestation Among Indigenous Communities
In a globalized world, environmental conflicts affecting indigenous communities (including hunter-gatherer groups) have intensified and grown in their transnational character. These changes have affected the c...
