Wälder der Hoffnung [Forests of Hope]
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.
A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.
Douglas Sheil reviews the book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper.
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.