Indigenous Knowledge as a Possibility of Nature Conservation: a Reflection on the Perspective of Ethno Conservation

Authors

  • Bárbara Elisa Pereira Universidade deSão Paulo
  • Antonio Carlos Diegues Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v22i0.16054

Keywords:

indigenous people, indigenous knowledge, ethno conservation

Abstract

The global environmental situation has been a concern of several segments of society. Within this scenario,new conceptions have been adopted in order to reach an effective environmental protection, resulting inwide discussions in different political spheres, from local to global levels. These issues include indigenouspeople and their respective knowledge, discussed through a new approach called ethno conservation,which aims at associating environmental conservation with indigenous knowledge and management of natural resources. Ethno conservation is an area of expertise from ethno science, based in elements oflanguage, culture and biology, in order to understand the meaning and classification of natural resources.As ethno conservation is strongly related with indigenous people and their knowledge there is a needto take these aspects into consideration, in order to understand the contribution of this new approach toenvironmental conservation.

Author Biography

Bárbara Elisa Pereira, Universidade deSão Paulo

Graduada em Pedagogia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná, mestranda pelo curso de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Ambiental da Universidade de São Paulo, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Diegues, com a pesquisa intitulada "Crianças Caiçaras e a Natureza: Relações e Perspectivas", com financiamento da FAPESP.

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Published

2010-12-23

How to Cite

Pereira, B. E., & Diegues, A. C. (2010). Indigenous Knowledge as a Possibility of Nature Conservation: a Reflection on the Perspective of Ethno Conservation. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 22. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v22i0.16054

Issue

Vol. 22 (2010): Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Conservation and Management of Natural Resources: The Local and the Global

Section

Conflitos Socioambientais, Conservação e Gestão de Recursos Naturais: O Local e o Global

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