Traditional knowledge and practices: an ethnoconservation approach

Authors

  • Antonio Carlos Diegues Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa sobre Populações Humanas e Áreas Úmidas Brasileiras (Nupaub), Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v50i0.66617

Keywords:

nature conservation, ethnoconservation, peoples and traditional communities, traditional knowledge and practices, traditional management of biodiversity

Abstract

Biodiversity conservation in Brazil is based on the imported model of national parks that excludes people, particularly   traditional communities from their territories. This exclusion is not only physical, often   through forced migration but also sociocultural that includes the whole way of life based on small scale agriculture and fishing, forest gathering and community work. Traditional knowledge on plants., animals, soils is also not taken into consideration on conservation areas planning and management. The main consequence of this exclusion is that the State loses support from these communities that should be considered their main allies in biodiversity conservation. This paper aims at analyzing the role of traditional knowledge and practices within a new model of biodiversity conservation that would be more democratic, socially inclusive and more adapted to developing countries situations. This model is called here ethnoconservation.

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Diegues, A. C. (2019). Traditional knowledge and practices: an ethnoconservation approach. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 50. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v50i0.66617

Issue

Vol. 50 (2019): Dialogues of Socio-Environmental Knowledge: challenges for epistemologies of the South

Section

Dialogues on Socioenvironmental Knowledge: challenges for Southern epistemologies

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