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Victoria Reyes-García
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Open AccessAs Proficient as Adults: Distribution of Children’s Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in an Arid Environment in Madagascar
In drylands, where resources are scarce, wild edible plant (WEP) knowledge is crucial to overcome food scarcity. Understanding the distribution pattern of local ecological knowledge (LEK) about WEP and identif...
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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 AccessIncremental and transformational adaptation to climate change among Indigenous Peoples and local communities: a global review
Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are exposed to different climate change impacts to which they respond in a myriad of ways. Despite this diversity, there are few comparative studies a...
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Open AccessBeyond artificial academic debates: for a diverse, inclusive, and impactful ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
In answer to the question “Should ethnobiology and ethnomedicine more decisively foster hypothesis-driven forefront research able to turn findings into policy and abandon more classical folkloric studies?”, in th...
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Open AccessPlacing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It...
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Teenagers’ ecological knowledge about dry forests in Northeastern Brazil: theoretical and practical implications in ethnobiology
A knowledge gap in the cognitive processes regarding socioeconomic variables and younger people exists in relation to different elements of nature. This study aims to analyze young people’s knowledge and perce...
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Cultural Consonance and Psychological Well-Being
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Indigenous and Local Knowledge Contributions to Social-Ecological Systems’ Management
Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive, for which their governance requires holistic understanding of the different components of the system and their relations, capacity to respond to change and u...
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Defining Well-Being: Local Versus Public Policy Definitions
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Supernatural Gamekeepers Among the Tsimane’ of Bolivian Amazonia
Oral histories about supernatural gamekeepers (i.e., spiritual beings who own and protect wildlife) are widespread among Indigenous Peoples across the Amazon Basin. Many Indigenous communities have strict cult...
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The Legacy of Pre-Columbian Fisheries to Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in the Modern Amazon
The relevance of local ecological knowledge to conservation and development agendas is gaining momentum, and the Amazon biome features as one of the most promising areas for its empirical application. Consider...
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Open AccessLocal reports of climate change impacts in Sierra Nevada, Spain: sociodemographic and geographical patterns
While we know that climate change is having different impacts on various ecosystems and regions of the world, we know less how the perception of such impacts varies within a population. In this study, we exami...
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Open AccessLocal and tourist perceptions of coastal marine habitats in Cap de Creus (NE Spain)
Direct human pressure on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) adds to climate change impacts on marine habitats, especially in coastal biodiversity hot spots. Understanding MPA user perception towards the Coastal mar...
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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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Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales
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Local Ecological Knowledge and the Sustainable Co-Management of Sierra Nevada’s Social-Ecological System
Local ecological knowledge systems have been the basis of , which has co-evolved over more than ten centuries until nowadays, based on the knowledge, practices, and innovations deriving from the relationshi...
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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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Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition
The dependence of hunter-gatherers on local net primary production (NPP) to provide food played a major role in sha** long-term human population dynamics. Observations of contemporary hunter-gatherers have s...
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Recognition of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Systems in Conservation and Their Role to Narrow the Knowledge-Implementation Gap
Over recent decades, Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems, people, and territories have increasingly been recognized in mainstream conservation practice. However, recognition of the value of IK by governing bodie...
