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The book presents a timely overview of the applications of indigenous knowledge to climate challenge in the Global South. It provides real-life cases and practices from the Global South for better environmental management and analyses ways to implement UNFCCC, Nagoya Protocol, and other international instruments of interest

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Reports
World Intellectual Property Report 2024: Making Innovation Policy Work for Development

2024

Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization

The report explores the need for innovation policies to focus on developing innovation capabilities. It offers a new methodological framework, complemented by three industry case studies – agriculture technology, motorcycle and video games – in Brazil, Finland, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Poland and the United States.

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This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values. It aims to spur discourse and understanding of how technology can be justly shaped for human advancement in Africa.

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Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures

2024

Author(s): Kowasch M, Batterbury SPJ

This book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues facing the French overseas territory New Caledonia, also called “Kanaky” by the indigenous Kanak people, who outnumber citizens of European and other origin.

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Reindeer Husbandry: Resilience in the Changing Arctic, Volume 2

2024

Author(s): Mathiesen SD, Eira IMG, Turi EI, Oskal A, Pogodaev M, Tonkopeeva M

This book focuses on climate change, indigenous reindeer husbandry and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading academics.

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This book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions.

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Area-Based Management of Shipping: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

2024

Author(s): Chircop A, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot, Claudio Aporta

This book fills a gap in the literature on shipping in a number of cross-cutting fields (including marine transportation law and policy, law of the sea, Indigenous rights, marine environmental management, and risk and safety studies). Moreover, the book includes a focus on the consideration of Indigenous rights in shipping, a topic of emerging importance.

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Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization: Rock Art in the 21st Century

2024

Author(s): AbadĂ­a OM, Conkey MW, McDonald J

This book explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities.

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Research Papers/Articles
Unlocking Private Sector Investment into Natural Climate Solutions in India

2024

Author(s): World Economic Forum

This report analyses the business case for investing in natural climate solutions (NCS) in India, based on a survey of some of the country’s largest companies.

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Area-Based Management of Shipping: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

2024

Author(s): Chircop A, Goerlandt F, Pelot R, Aporta C

This book is a compilation of multidisciplinary studies and analyses that examine important issues related to area-based management in shipping.