Local Effects of Global Forest Conservation Policy: On Zapotec Resistance against a Protected Natural Area
This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere
The article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.
2012—Time for Change
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
Nuhoniyeh—Our Story
Nuhoniyeh—Our Story provides a view on forced environmental migration.
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond.
Avatar and Natural Spirituality
The book explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron’s film Avatar (2010).
Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Troubles with Turtles provides an enthusiastic and provocative anthropological account of human-environment relationships in the island community of the village Vassilikos, Zakynthos, Greece.
Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History
About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives combines a number of essays in Canadian environmental history and related disciplines. The essays are united by a focus on cultural perceptions of Canadian environments, by an analysis of the interrelationship between nature and culture over time, and by a discussion of the human impact on natural environments.
Content
Book chapter: Pimbert, Michel, "Transforming Knowledge and Ways of Knowing"
This chapter argues that transforming knowledge requires a radical shift away from the existing top-down and increasingly corporate-controlled research system and toward an approach which devolves more responsibility and decision-making power to farmers, food workers, and consumers/citizens for the production of knowledge in the natural and social sciences.
Book chapter: Pimbert, Michel, "Reclaiming Citizenship, Empowering Civil Society in Policy-making"
This chapter explores processes that can help claim active forms of citizenship, including learning from the rich history of face-to-face democracy, strengthening local organizations, using the potential of community controlled media (such as digital video, radio, press, and Internet), and engaging in deliberative and inclusive processes (DIPs) that can significantly enhance citizen voice and agency in decision-making today.