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Research Papers/Articles
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge: A bibliometric study

2017

Author(s): Garg KC, Kumar SR

The present study provides a detailed bibliometric analysis of 1286 papers published in Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK) during 2002–2015. The analysis of data indicates that the flow of articles submitted to the journal has declined during the later period.

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Books
Planning in Indigenous Australia: From Imperial Foundations to Postcolonial Futures

2017

Author(s): Jackson S, Porter L, Johnson L C

The book maps the enduring effects of colonisation. It provides a new historical account of colonial planning practices and rewrites the urban planning histories of major Australian cities.

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This volume offers a clear message for genocide scholars and others concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide: much greater attention must be paid to the plight of all peoples, indigenous and otherwise, no matter how small in scale, how little-known, how "invisible" or hidden from view.

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Reports
Support to traditional healers for strengthening and capacity building

2017

Author(s): Bio-Resources Development Centre

This study provides profile of traditional healers in Meghalaya state. It also identifies constraints and problems of traditional healers.

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Opinions/Videos
Indigenous Peoples Must be Part of Solution to Climate Change

2017

Author(s): United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

On Indigenous People’s Day at COP23, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa joined representatives of indigenous peoples assembled in Bonn, acknowledging their part in being a solution to the problem of climate change.

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Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa

2017

Author(s): Shizha E, Abdi AA

This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the local, regional, and national levels.

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Research Papers/Articles
Collating and Validating Indigenous and Local Knowledge to Apply Multiple Knowledge Systems to an Environmental Challenge: a Case-Study of Pollinators in India

2017

Author(s): Smith BM, Chakrabarti P, Chatterjee A, Chatterjee S, Dey UK, Dicks LV, Giri B, Laha S, Majhi RK, Basu P

The study present a novel method to gather evidence in which we used a peer-to-peer validation process among farmers that we suggest is analogous to scientific peer review.

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This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of self-representation, specifically how the First Nations Elders of the Blackfoot Confederacy have worked with museums and heritage sites in Alberta, Canada, to represent their own culture and history.

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Research Papers/Articles
The Traditional Knowledge Advantage: Indigenous peoples’ knowledge in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

2016

Author(s): Chianese F, Cordone A, Darlong V, Firmian I

The inherent dynamism of indigenous peoples’ knowledge systems lies at the heart of their ability to adjust and modify their actions in response to environmental change. The diversity of resilience systems and capacities to adapt to climate change directly corresponds to the diversity of indigenous peoples and the different contexts they inhabit. 

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Research Papers/Articles
Traditional Water Conveyance Modes, their Management and Use in Udhampur District of Jammu and Kashmir

2016

Author(s): Slathia PS, Sharma BC, Paul N, Kumar R , Gupta SK

The present study focuses on traditional community managed water conveyance, management and conservation practices in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir which has been followed by the farming communities through locally devised traditionally inherited technology using local material with least use of external inputs.