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Biocultural Diversity
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Definition
Biocultural Diversity refers to
the fundamental linkages and interdependence between the various
manifestations of the diversity of life: biodiversity, cultural
diversity, and linguistic diversity. These various manifestations of
the diversity of life are under threat by some of the same forces, yet,
both in scientific inquiry and in the realms of policy and management,
nature and culture are often treated as separate and unrelated
entities. There still isn't adequate appreciation of the relevance of
the vast variety of approaches to human-environment relationships that
have developed across the world's diverse cultures, often through close
interactions with the natural environment and based on a perception of
humans as part of, not separate from, nature.
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