The objectives of this study were to characterise the body of knowledge of wild edible plants possessed by teachersworking in rural and urban areas of arid Patagonia. We also evaluated whether the different age classes ...

Este artículo busca comprender el rol de guardadores de la naturaleza que han asumido y demandan los pueblos indígenas. Este rol deriva de las concepciones de los conocimientos ecológicos tradicionales que han desarrollado ...

Background: Riparian forests provide ecosystem services that are essential for human well-being. The Pepital River is the main water supply for Alcantara (Brazil) and its forests are disappearing. This is affecting water ...

The use of nature by local communities is based in a set of knowledge, practices and believes, developed through human culture and historical experience with the environment. Small-scale commercial fishermen from Upper-Medium ...

The present work was developed in the Middle Cuiabá River, Pantanal of Mato Grosso, as the objective to describe the type of fishing on traditional fishing communities relating to traditional ecological knowledge (CET) of ...

The rural development model adopted in the last decades has had great social, economic and environmental impacts demonstrating the need to seek more sustainable ways. This study presents the research carried out in ...

This study investigates the relation of the current denial of the knowledge status of the traditional knowledges, specifically, the traditional knowledges associated to biodiversity, the modern paradigm, the anthropic ...