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Conservation in Chilean Patagonia: Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges

2023

Author(s): Castilla JC, Armesto Zamudio J J A, Martínez-Harms M J, Tecklin D

This book focus on the status of key ecosystems and conservation tools, and provide recommendations toward the construction of a renewed, inclusive, and integrated conservation agenda for the Chilean Patagonian region.

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In this open access book, ecological economics and political ecology traditions converge into a single academic school. The book constitutes a common ground where multiple and critical voices are expressed, covering a broad scope of urgent matters at the crossroad between society, economy and the natural environment.

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This book addresses the issue of Indigenous peoples' participation in genetic resource access and benefit-sharing and associated traditional knowledge for self-determination.

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Resource Management in Asia

2023

Author(s): Rai SC, Mishra PK

This book highlights the different ways of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) practices that conserve natural resources sustainably. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), along with synonymous or closely related terms like indigenous knowledge and native science, originates in the literature on international development and adaptive management.

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This book aims to bridge the gap between Indigenous and Western perspectives by re-educating researchers and decolonizing popular climate change solutions, will be of great interest to students and scholars studying climate change, conservation, environmental anthropology, and Indigenous studies on a broader scale.

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Indigenous Heritage

2023

Author(s): Whitford M, Ruhanen L

The history of Indigenous peoples’ engagement in tourism has provided a range of examples of the threats to Indigenous culture that can accrue as a result of tourism (i.e., cultural degradation, commercialisation and commodification, authenticity and identity, among others). This book presents an exploration of the intersection between tourism and Indigenous culture.

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Indigenous Oral History: Manual Canada and the United States

2023

Author(s): Wheeler W, Trimble C E, Quinlan M K, Sommer B W

Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practices to show how oral history can be done in different contexts.

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Indigenous Women and Adult Learning

2023

Author(s): Aikman S, Robinson-Pant A

This book investigates what is significant about indigenous women and their learning in terms of policy directions, research agendas and, not least, their own aspirations.

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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Contemporary Evaluation

2023

Author(s): Short D, Lennox C, Burger J, Hohmann J

This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and challenges that indigenous peoples have faced in securing the implementation of this new instrument, as well as its normative impact, at both the national and international levels.

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The author recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be ‘re-educated’ in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.