A5013553871- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Mining and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Risk Perception and Management
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía
2024-2025
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2023-2025
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2016-2024
The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawing work Indigenous non-Indigenous scholars, we argue change requires foregrounding peoples' local communities' rights agency policy. We support this argument with four key points. First, peoples communities hold knowledge essential for setting realistic effective targets simultaneously improve...
In the quest to improve understanding of climate change impacts on elements atmospheric, physical, and life systems, scientists are challenged by scarcity uneven distribution grounded data. Through their long history interaction with environment, Indigenous Peoples local communities have developed complex knowledge systems that allow them detect in environment. The study protocol presented here is designed 1) inventory based 2) test hypotheses global spatial, socioeconomic, demographic...
Abstract The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts various social-ecological systems. Here we use place-specific but cross-culturally comparable protocol document indicators and as locally experienced analyze their distribution. We collected first-hand data in 48 sites inhabited by Indigenous Peoples communities covering all zones nature-dependent livelihoods. documented...
Abstract Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge needs receive inadequate attention in research policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative consortium arising from the Local Indicators Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports environmental provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded multi-causal understandings change,...
Global polls have shown that people in high-income countries generally report being more satisfied with their lives than low-income countries. The persistence of this correlation, and its similarity to correlations between income life satisfaction within countries, could lead the impression high levels can only be achieved wealthy societies. However, global typically overlooked small-scale, nonindustrialized societies, which provide an alternative test consistency relationship. Here, we...
Citizen science is growing and increasingly realizing its potential in terms of benefiting society. However, there are significant barriers to engaging participants non-Western, non-educated, non-industrialised, non-rich non-democratic contexts. By reflecting on the experiences 15 citizen project coordinators, this paper contributes small but body knowledge attempting identify opportunities doing with marginalised Indigenous communities. Challenges affecting participation analysed projects...
Traditional agroecological knowledge (TAeK) refers to the cumulative and evolving body of knowledge, practices, beliefs, institutions, worldviews about relationships between a society or cultural group their agroecosystems. These systems contribute maintaining environmental culturally sensitive food have been considered very relevant for transitions, processes scaling-up -out agroecology. However, TAeK’s erosion enclosure threatens its use reproduction, which in turn might affect potential...
Abstract Indigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climatic changes. Investigating understandings of climate change impacts, their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively support monitoring adaptation strategies. In this study, we aimed understand the consistency in impact reports factors influencing at site individual levels. We conducted cross-cultural research among iTaukei (Fiji), Dagomba (Ghana), fisherfolks (Tanzania), Tsimane’ (Bolivia), Bassari...
Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS still an important concern. This work aims understand (1) dynamics (2) how they are shaped barriers drivers. We do so examining CONECT-e, a project that uses wiki-like platform document traditional ecological knowledge. More precisely, we analyze quantitative on participants’ profile activity...
The documentation and protection of traditional knowledge face new challenges in the era open science. Focusing on medicinal food uses, we discuss two innovative initiatives Spain to document, protect return society knowledge.The Spanish Inventory Traditional Knowledge related Biodiversity has compiled published information use management flora, fauna, fungi, geodiversity, ecosystems. CONECT-e (www.conecte.es) is an online platform where citizens can document uses wild domesticated species....
Benyei, P., L. Aceituno-Mata, Calvet-Mir, J. Tardío, M. Pardo-de-Santayana, D. García-del-Amo, Rivera-Ferre, Molina-Simón, A. Gras-Mas, Perdomo-Molina, S. Guadilla-Sáez, and V. Reyes-García. 2020. Seeds of change: reversing the erosion traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain. Ecology Society 25(2):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11471-250219
Most studies on climate change's impacts agriculture focus modeling techniques based large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmer's perception of can affect crop diversity and management practices, especially in industrialized contexts. To fill this gap, we conducted 24 semi-structured interviews a study site located the Catalan Pyrenees. Our results show for first time an context that farmers perceive multiple interrelated change local agroecosystems. For...
In the last decade, researchers have reported erosion of Traditional Medicinal Plant Knowledge (TMPK), including declines in knowledge about which plant species are medicines and practical skills for using these species. Among various drivers explaining TMPK loss, processes governing acquisition transmission not clearly understood. this study we explore whether grandparent-grandchild proximity relates to child's knowledge, namely through oblique transmission. Based on assumption that elders...
Despite the international consensus about benefits of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for sustainable governance, Indigenous peoples and local communities continue to face threats their self-governance stemming from shortsighted government regulations, marginalization, other global political economy forces. To contribute scholarship on impact social movements CBNRM organization robustness, in this article we focus role that knowledge (ILK) plays movement’s struggles...