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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… biological diversity. Safeguarding the integrity of this traditional interaction is vital to the protection, … intended to conserve: • Important crop wild relatives6; • Traditional and threatened landraces, particularly those … and wetlands, as a source of critical nutrition and medicine, and as a culturally important resource. For …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… by Lluc M. Torcal and Josep-Maria Mallarach Integrating traditional values and management regimes into Madagascar’s … in sustaining local and regional economies, in supporting traditional sustain- able practices in local communities, as … intensive col- lection of medicinal plants used in folk medicine, the hunt- ing of wild animals (e.g. ibex) and a …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… Park of Canada: adaptation possibilities for protecting traditional knowledge of a local community Chapter 5 – … 56 Traditional knowledge, ecosystem services and disaster risk … of resources following a disaster (such as food, fuel, medicine and shelter) and can therefore be an integral part …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… recent times in certain regions or are well-documented by traditional liter- ary sources like epics or sagas; sacred … legislation and the existence of a ‘hurn’ —an Islamic traditional pro- tected area— guarantee to a certain de- gree … are also gathered on this sacred mountain, and traditional medicine has remedies for ailments for which mod- ern …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… No. 3. Graeme Kelleher, 1999, xxiv + 107pp. Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas: Principles, … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Guideline 4.3 Traditional knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … members in attendance. During the month of June, a local medicine man invited Park Service employees and a climbing …
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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… ecosystems, together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally … research, species reintroduction, and interaction with traditional populations living in and at the edges of … or education, or from professions such as law or medicine. Fluency in English or Japanese is common and is …
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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action

… ecosystems, together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. Generally … many other actors are learning about how to maintain their traditional “conserved territories” through times of rapid … (land people); Umurecóomajã (sky people); Ucómajã (medicine people); Utãpinomasã (people who guide the stones)”. …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… elements more holistically over time, rather than in the traditional species-by-species approach. The broader … people 0 Enhanced medicinal plant conservation 0 Local and traditional knowledge recognized and protected. 0 … resources, grounded in constitutions, customary law or traditional practice, as well as legislation. Among the …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… voluntary commitments or supply chain standards, and with traditional and indigenous norms and practices for conserving … to natural resources. Customary rules of indigenous and traditional communities may also be legally binding, within … and the resources it provides, including food, water, medicine and protection from the impacts of natural …
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Feasibility study on establishing transboundary cooperation in the potential Tara-Drina National Park

… within the project “Sustaining Rural Communities and their Traditional Landscapes Through Strengthened Environmental … on the basis of conservation of biological diversity and traditional landscapes in transboundary regions by enhancing … Although the questionnaire provided sound insight into the traditional landscape, a more thorough overview of the local …
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