conservation

This article assesses the merits of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Matrix, and asks whether we are destroying endogenous processes that generate biocultural diversity in our quest to conserve it.

This article looks at how the biodiversity concept has been used in relation to forest conservation in Brazil.

This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”

This paper deals with the subset of work on biocultural diversity that quantifies cultural and biological elements in order to map and compare them across regions.

This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.

This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.