@inbook {877, title = {Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rain forest ecosystem: A case study of the Yoruba of Ara, Nigeria}, booktitle = {Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience}, year = {1998}, note = {

Paper originally presented by D. Michael Warren at Property Rights and the Performance of Natural Resource Systems: Social and Ecological Systems for Resilience and Sustainability August 29-30, 1994. The Beijier International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm Sweden

}, month = {March 1998}, pages = {158-189}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {In his introduction, Dr. Warren defines the term "indigenous knowledge." He says that indigenous knowledge is a type of decision-making system. He calls for understanding and conserving natural resources. He states that "every community has the capacity to deal with its problems." He bases his study on a Yoruba state in the tropical rainforest in southwest Nigeria. The study also shows the way the community uses indigenous knowledge for decision-making processes and the utilization of the resources. There is a description of Ara, the changing land use, and the indigenous knowledge of biodiversity in Ara followed by his conclusions.}, keywords = {aafin Alara, agroforestry, cola acuminata, cola nitida, cultural diversity, ecosystem management, gari, Ghaga River, human ecology, ICRAF, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, molebi, Odo-Igbo River, rainforests, social ecology, social systems, sustainable development, USAID, West Africa Multipurpose Tree Project}, isbn = {0-521-59140-6; 978-0-521-59140-9}, url = {https://www.worldcat.org/title/36470157}, author = {D. Michael Warren and Jennifer Pinkston}, editor = {Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke} } @book {405, title = {The wealth of communities: Stories of success in local environmental management}, year = {1994}, month = {1994}, pages = {213}, publisher = {Kumarian Press}, organization = {Kumarian Press}, address = {West Hartford, CT}, abstract = {So much written about the environment conveys unremitting doom and the sense that time is running out. The problems, are, indeed, serious, yet there are grounds for optimism, and communities all over the world are making intelligent use of the resources on which they depend. This book tells the stories of 10 such communities, from the Philippines to Poland, from Los Angeles to Zimbabwe, whether reviving depleted fisheries, finding novel ways of waste disposal, or controlling industrial pollution for their own needs while at the same time protecting the environment -- often in the face of hardship and opposition.}, keywords = {Calcutta, case studies, community organization, community participation, Costa Rica, developing countries, economic development, Ecuador, environmental aspects, environmental conditions, environmental management, environmental protection, human ecology, India, Krakow, Los Angeles, management, Mauritania, natural resources, Nepal, Philippines, sustainable development, Uganda, United States, Zimbabwe}, isbn = {978-1-56549-038-3}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30567089}, author = {Charlie Pye-Smith} } @book {300, title = {Boundaries of home: Mapping for local empowerment}, series = {The New catalyst bioregional series no. 6}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, pages = {138 pp.}, publisher = {New Society Publishers}, organization = {New Society Publishers}, address = {Gabriola Island, BC, Canada}, abstract = {This book discusses the making of maps as a means of getting to know one{\textquoteright}s locality and as a means of local empowerment. Various mapmaking applications are discussed, of varying degrees of sophistication, mostly in the contest of California and British Columbia. Locally made maps are important because they (1) acquaint the local people with their land and resources, and (2) they make it harder for outside agencies to exploit the local people unfairly.}, keywords = {cartography, environmental mapping, human ecology, landscape changes, maps}, isbn = {1-55092-207-6}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28497226}, editor = {Doug Aberley} } @inbook {761, title = {Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice: Implications for policy and management of a local agricultural germplasm resource of potential global significance}, booktitle = {Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe}, year = {1993}, note = {

Also published in Valuing local knowledge: Indigenous people and intellectual property rights edited by Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky. GF21.V37 1996 2nd floor Paterno. See url for the WorldCAT record of this book.

}, month = {Oct. 5-10 1993}, address = {Lake Tahoe}, abstract = {The first aim of the paper is to bring out the extent to which O. glaberrima biodiversity is a cultural product; specifically, the response of West African farming communities to the challenge of survival in a harsh environment with limited labor resources. A second, related aim is to underscore the potential obligation of the wider rice-dependent world to the communities and cultures that have provided them with this legacy of hardy rice germplasm.}, keywords = {biodiversity, Conservation of natural resources, economic conditions, environmental policy, ethnobotany, ethnophilosophy, human ecology, sustainable development}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047173}, author = {Paul Richards} } @inbook {772, title = {Indigenous practices of aquatic resource management in the dry zone of Sri Lanka}, booktitle = {Human evolution in its ecological context: Proceedings of the Pithecanthropus Centennial 1893-1993 Congress, under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences}, year = {1993}, note = {Paper presented at Pithecanthropus Centennial "Human Evolution in its Ecological Context", June 26-July 1, 1993, Leiden, The Netherlands}, month = {6/26-7/1/1993}, publisher = {Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation, Leiden University}, organization = {Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation, Leiden University}, address = {Leiden, The Netherlands}, abstract = {

Aquatic resources, mainly fish and aquatic plants, play an important role as a source of food in the traditional villages in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Therefore, the villagers have traditionally developed various practices which lead to sustainable utilization of aquatic resources.

This study is an attempt to explore such practices pertaining to fishery. In the Dry Zone where scarcity of water is the major constraint to all human activities, village settlements are located in close proximity to the irrigation tanks. In every village, aquatic resources are found in association with the village-irrigation tank, its distributory canal system and the buffalo wallow, the pool in which the water drained from the paddy tract is accumulated.

Indigenous practices which contribute to the sustainable utilization of fishery resources are threefold:

  1. institutional,
  2. technological and
  3. ecological.

While various cultural limitations on fishing rights, rules and regulations pertaining to fishery and powers of the village leadership prevent the over-exploitation of fishery resources, the implements and techniques used for fishing, including trapping and poisoning, were traditionally designed in such a way that they would not cause over-fishing. The ecological set-up maintained by the villagers around the water bodies was also conducive to the sustainability of the fishery. However, all these indigenous practices are now increasingly disappearing in the face of modernization. (author)

}, keywords = {aquaculture, aquatic resources, human ecology}, isbn = {90-802652-1-7; 978-90-802652-1-9}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36381768}, author = {Rohana Ulluwishewa}, editor = {L. Jan Slikkerveer} } @article {512, title = {Amazon ecology and adaptation}, journal = {Annual Review of Anthropology}, volume = {15}, year = {1986}, month = {October 1986}, pages = {67-97}, abstract = {This document looks at the ecology of Amazonia and relates how humans have adapted to this environment. It details both the primary abiotic (soils and water) and biotic (plants and animals) components of the ecosystem and the cultural systems that have arisen for use of these natural resources (hunting, fishing, gathering, agriculture). Significant changes - past, present and future - to these systems are discussed. Research (biological and anthropological) trends and needs in Amazonia are also discussed. (author)}, keywords = {Amazonia, culture, ecosystem, human ecology, rainforests, South America}, doi = {10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.000435}, url = {http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.000435}, author = {L. E. Sponsel} } @book {287, title = {Adaptive responses of native Amazonians}, series = {Studies in anthropology}, year = {1983}, month = {1983}, pages = {516 pp.}, publisher = {Academic Press}, organization = {Academic Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {The present description concerns shifting cultivation among the Machiguenga, Native American inhabitants of the tropical rainforest of the Upper Amazon, specifically, a community on the Kompiroshiato River, a tributary of the Urubamba River in the department of Cuzco, Peru. The language is of the Arawakan family, and is closely allied to that of the Amuesha, Campa, and Piro Indians, who also inhabit the montana of Southeastern Peru. As is typical of the montana region, Machiguenga settlements vary from single families to small hamlets of related families located on a stream that provides clean water for household needs, near a river suitable for fishing, and with abundant forest for hunting and from which gardens are cleared. Population density is 0.3 persons/km2. The Machiguenga spend nearly as much time procuring wild foods as they do cultivating their gardens, but it is from their gardens that the vast bulk of their food derives, including a great overproduction of starchy tubers for food security under isolated and vulnerable living conditions. (author)}, keywords = {Amazon River Valley, human ecology, Indians of South America, social conditions, social life and customs}, isbn = {0-12-321250-2}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8827760}, editor = {Raymond B. Hames and William T. Vickers} } @article {690, title = {The mulberry dike-fish pond complex: A Chinese ecosystem of land-water interaction on the Pearl River Delta}, journal = {Human Ecology}, volume = {10}, year = {1982}, month = {June 1982}, pages = {191-202}, abstract = {The Pearl River Delta offers humans a variety of land-use alternatives. A complex ecosystem which has been in existence in the Delta for centuries has greatly contributed to the region{\textquoteright}s agricultural productivity. The principal components are mulberry trees, silkworms, pond fish, and humans, interrelated in a harmonious and mutually beneficial way. The system is not only highly efficient and soundly balanced ecologically, but provides much higher economic returns than do other agrarian practices in the Delta.}, keywords = {anthropology/archaeometry, aquaculture, China, ecosystem, environmental management, fish, human ecology, mulberry, silkworm, sociology}, doi = {10.1007/BF01531240}, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01531240}, author = {Zhong Gongfu} }