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Connecting Modern Medicine to Traditional Healing

2013

Author(s): Torres C

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Reports
Designing for Action: Principles of Effective Sustainability Measurement

2013

Author(s): Connell DO, Raison J, Dodds SH, Braid A, Cowie A, Littleboy A, Wiedmann T, Clark M

This paper provides a summary of a more detailed full Report commissioned by the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability. Its purpose is to provide a framework and guide for people engaging with the complex and evolving sustainability literature and the development and application of sustainability assessment tools.

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Books
The State and Indigenous Movements

2013

Author(s): Smith KEI

This book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples of the Native Hawaiians.

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Brighter Future through Indigenous Prosperity

2013

Author(s): Scrimshaw G

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

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The book describes how indigenous peoples transformed themselves from anthropological curiosities into politically influential voices in domestic and international deliberations affecting everyone on the planet.

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An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in 16 different villages of Bellary district of Karnataka with an aim to document the information regarding indigenous plant species used in the treatment of respiratory disorders.

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The study aimed in exploring indigenous knowledge of Limboo tribe on plant use practices for local healthcare in Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, Sikkim. Paper also discussed the conservation aspects.

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This study was conducted to explore the traditional knowledge and indigenous practices being followed by farmers in agriculture and animal husbandry to assess the possibility of integrating with organic farming in Uttarakhand, which is the first state in India promoting organic farming in a systematic way.

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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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What is Indigenous knowledge?

2013

Author(s): Hill R

This video talks about indigenous knowledge