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View article: Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities Open
Climate change profoundly affects well‐being in complex and interconnected ways. However, the relationship between climate change and well‐being has been explored in only a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized. Here, we in…
View article: High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes
High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes Open
Global polls have shown that people in high-income countries generally report being more satisfied with their lives than people in low-income countries. The persistence of this correlation, and its similarity to correlations between income…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
Indigenous Peoples and local communities directly experience climate change impacts, but each group experiences impacts in a different way. The LICCI network includes about 50 Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers working with and affi…
View article: A complex matrix. Reports of environmental change and its drivers by the Tsimane', Bolivian Amazon
A complex matrix. Reports of environmental change and its drivers by the Tsimane', Bolivian Amazon Open
Indigenous knowledge systems provide a complex picture of the relations between humans and the environment. Using interviews and focus group discussions, this chapter explores perceptions of environmental change and its drivers among the T…
View article: Challenges, Strategies, and Impacts of Doing Citizen Science with Marginalised and Indigenous Communities: Reflections from Project Coordinators
Challenges, Strategies, and Impacts of Doing Citizen Science with Marginalised and Indigenous Communities: Reflections from Project Coordinators Open
Citizen science is growing and increasingly realizing its potential in terms of benefiting science and society. However, there are significant barriers to engaging participants in non-Western, non-educated, non-industrialised, non-rich and…
View article: Local indicators of climate change impacts described by indigenous peoples and local communities: Study protocol
Local indicators of climate change impacts described by indigenous peoples and local communities: Study protocol Open
Introduction In the quest to improve the understanding of climate change impacts on elements of the atmospheric, physical, and life systems, scientists are challenged by the scarcity and uneven distribution of grounded data. Through their …
View article: Indigenous and Local Knowledge’s Role in Social Movement’s Struggles Against Threats to Community-Based Natural Resource Management Systems: Insights from a Qualitative Meta-analysis
Indigenous and Local Knowledge’s Role in Social Movement’s Struggles Against Threats to Community-Based Natural Resource Management Systems: Insights from a Qualitative Meta-analysis Open
Despite the international consensus about the benefits of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for sustainable resource governance, Indigenous peoples and local communities continue to face threats to their self-governance s…
View article: Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study Open
Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS is still an important concern. This work aim…
View article: Resistance to traditional agroecological knowledge erosion in industrialized contexts: A study in La Plana de Vic (Catalonia)
Resistance to traditional agroecological knowledge erosion in industrialized contexts: A study in La Plana de Vic (Catalonia) Open
This work explores the actors and reasons behind Traditional Agroecological Knowledge (TAeK) conservation initiatives in industrialized contexts. Results come from interviews to key informants and social network analyses of TAeK conservati…
View article: Seeds of change: reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain
Seeds of change: reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain Open
Understanding valuation of and access to traditional agroecological knowledge (TAeK) in industrialized countries is key to designing initiatives that can reverse the erosion of TAeK. We explored these issues using a quasi-experimental desi…
View article: Exploring Pathways to Link Agrobiodiversity and Human Health
Exploring Pathways to Link Agrobiodiversity and Human Health Open
Growing evidence indicates that the overall reduction of biodiversity in agricultural systems is concomitant to dietary simplification and related health effects, yet our understanding of the complex relationship between agrobiodiversity a…
View article: The Contribution of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Digital Commons to Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the CONECT-e Platform
The Contribution of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge as a Digital Commons to Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the CONECT-e Platform Open
Traditional agroecological knowledge (TAeK) refers to the cumulative and evolving body of knowledge, practices, beliefs, institutions, and worldviews about the relationships between a society or cultural group and their agroecosystems. The…
View article: Grandparents' Proximity and Children's Traditional Medicinal Plant Knowledge: Insights from Two Schools in Intermediate-Rural Spain
Grandparents' Proximity and Children's Traditional Medicinal Plant Knowledge: Insights from Two Schools in Intermediate-Rural Spain Open
In the last decade, researchers have reported the erosion of Traditional Medicinal Plant Knowledge (TMPK), including declines in the knowledge about which plant species are medicines and in the practical skills for using these species. Amo…