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Rococo Garden Party 2010

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Painswick, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
August 20, 2010 to August 22, 2010
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2010
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Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC)

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Portland, United States
September 8, 2010 to September 10, 2010

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Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitiga...

2010: Advance Guard - Climate Change Compendium Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples - A Compendium of Case Studies.    This compendium presents a wide ...more
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Biocultural Diversity List of RSS Feeds

Rss feeds sources from biocultural diversity related sites. Updated daily.
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

About Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine What is Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine?   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that ai ...more
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Fieldwork with Integrity: Inspiring Examples

This Wiki is a gathering place for positive examples of how we are bringing the ISE Code of Ethics to life in our work.   We invite you to post a summary of your work, along with weblinks and low-reso ...more
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Observatories of biocultural diversity: establishing long...

United by a concern for biological and cultural diversity, diverse teams of researchers are conducting long-term studies of local peoples’ environmental beliefs, knowledge systems and practices in the ...more
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International Society of Ethnobiology

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Bioneers

Activities: Educational, Networking
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Indigenous Permaculture

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What is Biocultural Diversity?


Luisa Maffi, director of the Terralingua project, offers up this helpful explanation:


"Biocultural diversity comprises the diversity of life in all of its manifestations: biological, cultural, and linguistic, which are interrelated (and possibly coevolved) within a complex socio-ecological adaptive system."


The term refers to the co-evolution of biological and cultural systems, and how it has contributed to the diversity of life for people, animals, habitats and ecosystems. 


These systems do not exist in isolation - if we examine everything in its totality, we will find that the interactions between these systems has played a strong role in guiding the development to where it is today.

 

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"This is a fantastic group!  It's an emerging topic, still not quite on everyone's radar, but with so many cultures and traditions in danger of vanishing, we must take measures to preserve our heritag" ...more
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Great links to check out
 

  •  The Climate Change Project: The Agrobiodiversity and Climate Change project, supported by Bioversity International and the Christensen Fund, aims to gather and make known information on the use of agrobiodiversity by communities facing climate change.
  • Blog on Agrobiodiversity and Climate Change
  • The Flyways Project is a musical celebration of the great bird migration between Africa and Eurasia along the Great Rift Valley. It follows the birds’ long journeys using music of the cultures over which the birds fly, interwoven with the voices of the birds themselves. The project calls attention to the interconnectedness of all forms of diversity, from birds to local cultures, and to the need for international collaboration to protect them.
  • Conversations With the World is a multimedia exhibition aiming to build a bridge between contrasting worlds by exploiting the piercing look in one person's eye, the delicate or the rough texture in another person's voice and the depth of the oral tradition of the people

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World Bank 2008 Role of Indigenous Peoples in Biodiversit...

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Terralingua Newsletter Winter 2009

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Cultural indicators of Indigenous Peoples' food and ...

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Resurgence 250 - Indigenous Intelligence

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Insight News Feb 2008

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kibii about 1 year ago
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Maffi 2005 Linguistic cultural biological diversity

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kibii about 1 year ago

 



 
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