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Journals
Trees, Forests and People

2020

Publisher/Organisation: Elsevier B.V

Trees, Forests and People publishes peer-reviewed papers across this full domain of tree- and forest-related science and practice. To ensure maximum value of knowledge, all papers are published open-access to be read and applied by people around the world.

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Environmental Development

2012

Publisher/Organisation: Elsevier B.V

Environmental Development is a transdisciplinary, future-oriented journal focused on research and practices that contribute to globally relevant environment and development issues at local and regional scales.

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2012

Publisher/Organisation: Elsevier B.V

IJDRR publishes fundamental and applied research, critical reviews, policy papers and case studies with a particular focus on multi-disciplinary research that aims to reduce the impact of natural, technological, social and intentional disasters

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Journals
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

2016

Publisher/Organisation: Elsevier B.V.

The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (J-AIM) is internationally circulated open access official publication of World Ayurveda Foundation and Trans-Disciplinary University, Bengaluru. As a trans-disciplinary platform for integrative health sciences, J-AIM aims to explore the relationships between Ayurveda, traditional medicine, biomedicine and other contemporary health sciences, encouraging meaningful collaboration to promote effective, safe and affordable global health.

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This book deals with the traditional and indigenous knowledge of the common men and women of India—tribal and Dalit populations, fisher folk, craftsmen, artisans, and leather workers—which includes their agriculture, housing, and irrigation methods; medicinal knowledge; methods for collecting drinking water and arts.

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Books
What is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy

1999

Author(s): Semali L M, Kincheloe J L, Kincheloe J L, Semali L M

The book not only exposes the fault lines of modernist grand narratives, but also illuminates, in a vivid and direct way, what it means to come to subjectivity in the margins.

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This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization has isolated the Indigenous People from practising 'traditional ways of life.' Portrayed in the book are the Indigenous People's perspective of their Indigenous Knowledge about the enviornment, and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife and nature.

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Books
Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda

2021

Author(s): Breidlid A, Krøvel R

Drawing on experiences and field work from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda brings together authors who explore social, educational, institutional and ecological sustainability in relation to indigenous knowledges. In doing so, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the concept of "sustainability", at both national and international levels, from a range of diverse perspectives.

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The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.

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This book re-conceptualizes the field of international and comparative education by utilizing indigenous knowledge as a central component for altering the dominant, eurocentric social science research paradigm.