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Squetimkin-Anquoe, Annette. "Urban Indian Perspectives of Traditional Indian Medicine." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1370380339.

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Chakrabarti, Vibhuti. "Contemporary uses of Vastu Vidya, the traditional Indian knowledge of architecture." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243990.

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This study is the first to explore the secular uses of Vastu Vidya or the traditional Indian science of architecture, at the levels of both theory and contemporary practice. It is also the first to treat Vastu Vidya as constituting a coherent and complete architectural programme within the Indian tradition. In providing a comprehensive overview of the corpus of Vastu Vidya, the study makes ample reference to the representative texts on the subject of architecture, and also to those on allied subjects that fall within the same tradition, such as astrology, medicine, philosophy, the visual and p

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Clayton, Deena. "Developing a knowledge base to incorporate traditional knowledge with geographic information systems." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0013/MQ34951.pdf.

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Lertzman, David Adam. "Planning between cultural paradigms, traditional knowledge and the transition to ecological sustainability." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0024/NQ38927.pdf.

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Schreiber, Raphael, and Moisin Monica Bota. "Rebranding “Made in India” through Cultural Sustainability : Exploring and Expanding Indian Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25395.

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This exploratory study is a first attempt to translate the Indian cultural context from a socio-cultural, and legal perspective by identifying the values attributed to Indian textile craftsmanship by Indian textile and fashion stakeholders, and how their perspective is influenced by the global recognition and perception of Indian textile crafts and connotation of “Made in India”. At the same time the study investigates the meaning of “sustainability” in the Indian cultural context, in relation to textile craftsmanship, and how this relates to the Western concept of “sustainability”. Through fi

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Droz, PennElys. "Biocultural Engineering Design for Indigenous Community Resilience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323449.

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Indigenous peoples worldwide are engaged in the process of rebuilding and re-empowering their communities. They are faced with challenges emerging from a history of physical, spiritual, emotional, and economic colonization, challenges including a degraded resource base, lack of infrastructure, and consistent pressure on their land tenure and ways of life. These communities, however, continue demonstrating profound resilience in the midst of these challenges; working to re-empower and provide for the contemporary needs of their people in a manner grounded in supporting bio-cultural integrity;

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Abhayawardana, Nuwan [Verfasser]. "The tank systems in the dry zone Sri Lanka: evolution, management and traditional knowledge / Nuwan Abhayawardana." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1200919084/34.

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Dai, Wei. "Integration of knowledge-based systems techniques with conventional software techniques in a traditional software development environment." Thesis, Dai, Wei (1995) Integration of knowledge-based systems techniques with conventional software techniques in a traditional software development environment. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1995. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50251/.

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This thesis investigates how Artificial Intelligence, particularly knowledge-based systems techniques can be integrated with conventional software techniques, and develop an environment in which both knowledge-based systems and conventional software techniques can be utilised equally and easily in the development of intelligent software products. Potential strategies for integrating knowledge-based systems techniques into a traditional Software Development Environments (SOE) have been investigated. These strategies have been used in defining a layered software architecture to support language-

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Boag, Franca Elise. "Integrated Mediterranean farming and pastoral systems : local knowledge and ecological infrastructure of Italian dryland farming /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22954.pdf.

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Ramos, Seafha C. "Hlkelonah Ue Meygeytohl: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Wildlife Conservation and an Interdisciplinary Approach to Culturally Sensitive Research with the Yurok Tribe." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613237.

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The term Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is generally interpreted as the knowledge held by Indigenous communities about their environment and the cultural frameworks in which such knowledge is transmitted. There is no universally accepted definition of TEK and interpretations can vary between Western and Indigenous lenses. TEK as an academic field has gained a vast literature base; however, there is a dearth of literature in the wildlife field that expresses TEK through an Indigenous lens. There has been growing attention on TEK in the wildlife profession, warranting further exploratio

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Chawatama, Brighton Itayi. "Knowledge-based integration of Zimbabwean traditional medicines into the National Healthcare System: A case study of prostate cancer." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7009.

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>Magister Scientiae - MSc<br>This study sought to identify the bottlenecks in the promotion of Zimbabwean Traditional Medicines (ZTMs) towards improving the national healthcare delivery system. The indigenous medicines lost value and recognition to the Conventional Western Medicines introduced by the British colonialist since 1871 and is still dominating the national healthcare delivery system. There are growing challenges to ensure accessibility of affordable drugs especially for primary healthcare. The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN) is in support of re-engaging indig

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Lai, Robert. "Systems of innovation : case study on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) organisations' knowledge & capability developments through collaborations." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/systems-of-innovation-case-study-on-traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-organisations-knowledge--capability-developments-through-collaborations(4ff71e38-6b08-4402-809d-e50d36f34ad9).html.

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Chinese medicine is one of China's key national assets, an indigenous medical knowledge and practices that serves Chinese for thousands of years. As very little research has been focused on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from systems of innovation perspective, the topic of study was chosen. This qualitative case study research introduces, defines and explores how TCM organisations collaborate to innovate from an evolutionary, interactive system perspective. In particular, the focus is on the development of knowledge and capabilities related to TCM drug research and production. Thirty one T

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Corbett, Andrea J. "Agent-based modelling of transactive memory systems and knowledge processes in agile versus traditional software development teams." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15011/.

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The objective of this research is to develop an agent-based model of transactive memory systems (TMS - meta-knowledge of expertise and knowledge in a team) simulating software development teams using two different software development methodologies. Waterfall (a structured methodology with a series of large discrete phases) and the Agile. eXtreme programming (XP - more recent. dynamic, and tuned to change and flexibility). There does exist research relating to TMS; comparisons of software development methodologies; cognitive processes of software development teams; and also agent-based modelli

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Spoonhunter, Tarissa L. "Blackfoot Confederacy Keepers of the Rocky Mountains." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323418.

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The Blackfoot Confederacy Keepers of the Rocky Mountains provides a first hand account of the Blackfoot intimate relationship with their mountain landscape now known as Glacier National Park, Bob Marshall Wilderness, Badger Two Medicine Unit of the Lewis and Clark Forest Service, and the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The animals shared the traditional ecological knowledge of the mountains with the Blackfoot Confederacy so they could survive through the "transfer of knowledge" in their elaborate ceremonial bundles made up of plants, animals, and rocks from the landscape. The Blac

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Lindsey, Daniel Clayton. "A Geospatial Analysis of the Northeastern Plains Village Complex: An Exploration of a GIS-Based Multidisciplinary Method for the Incorporation of Western and Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Discovery of Diagnostic Prehistoric Settlement Patterns." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31623.

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This thesis research analyzes how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) can be used to understand extant Northeastern Plains Village (NEPV) settlement strategies in aggregate for the purposes of subjoining a subsequent verification metric to the current archaeological classification system used to describe NEPV associated sites. To accomplish this task, I extracted Traditional Ecological Knowledge from ethnographic sources for comparison to geospatial, geostatistical, and statistical analyses. My results show that the hierarchical clustering exhibited among NEPV sites is congruent with first

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Derakhshani, Nava. ""God has locked the sky" : exploring traditional farming systems in Tigray, Ethiopia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97123.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is a historic centre of agricultural production and home to many subsistence farmers that still use traditional farming systems and practise rain-fed agriculture. The region has been affected adversely by famines and periodic droughts for centuries and is vulnerable to climate change. Farmers are producing on small plots of often degraded land and through their own actions have depleted the natural resources they rely on, in particular soil, water and trees. This study sought to explore

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Barreau, Daly Antonia. "Narrating changing foodways : wild edible plant knowledge and traditional food systems in Mapuche lands of the Andean temperate forests, Chile." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51557.

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Despite increases in food production worldwide, we face a global food crisis. Yet, the literature on food vulnerability tends to emphasize cultivated foods, overlooking the importance of wild edible plants. This work explores the state of ethnobotanical knowledge on wild edible plants and changing foodways in a Mapuche community residing in the Andean temperate forests, Chile. This research contributes to an understanding of the influence of historical and contemporary eco-cultural processes on traditional ecological knowledge and food systems. I used ethnography, complemented with ethnobotan

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Gordon, Miles P. "Climate Planning with Multiple Knowledge Systems: The Case of Tribal Adaptation Plans." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou152475789156055.

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Bethel, Matthew. "Geospatial Technology/Traditional Ecological Knowledge-Derived Information Tools for the Enhancement of Coastal Restoration Decision Support Processes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1228.

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This research investigated the feasibility and benefits of integrating geospatial technology with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of an indigenous Louisiana coastal population in order to assess the impacts of current and historical ecosystem change to community viability. The primary goal was to provide resource managers with a comprehensive method of assessing localized ecological change in the Gulf Coast region that can benefit community sustainability. Using Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and other geospatial technologies integrated with a coastal communi

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Phouthavongs, Kaviphone. "Employing geographical information systems in fisheries management in the Mekong River a case study of Lao PDR /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1090.

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Masters (M.Sc.)--University of Sydney, 2006.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 27 February 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the School of Geosciences. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Strandqvist, Louise, and Camilla Abrahamsson. "Kunskapshantering med wikis : En studie om användningen av wikis som kunskapshanteringssystem i ett distribuerat mjukvaruutvecklingsteam." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-132007.

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To seize and make use of knowledge in organizations is important for their competitiveness, amongst other things. To do this is, however, not entirely straightforward and therefore the use of so called knowledge management systems is common. There are different kinds of systems for managing knowledge, for example systems that are known as traditional knowledge management systems. However, a number of difficulties and problems with the traditional knowledge management systems has led to the usage of other systems, for example wikis, for knowledge management. We have, in this thesis, studied the

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Holmquist, Jenny. "Enhet eller mångfald? : En dekonstruktion av samernas bibliotek bibliotekskatalog." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413556.

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Introduction. This thesis is set in the field of critical knowledge organization and indigenous knowledge organi- zation. Building on the theory of domain analysis I chose the Saami Library in Sweden as the domain for this thesis. The purpose was to identify the structures of power affecting how the lives and experiences of the Saami people are represented in the library catalogue and in the classification systems used, and to examine the views on knowledge expressed in the classification systems. Theory and method. This thesis builds upon the writings on deconstruction. I seek to deconstruct

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Willis, Jenny. "Supporting the gastronomic use of underutilised species to promote social and ecological resilience: motivations and challenges in the Cape Town area." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7917.

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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)<br>It is well established that the modern global food system is highly unsustainable, distorted by industrialisation and corporate consolidation, with negative repercussions on the environment and biodiversity as well as human health. Innovative approaches are necessary to push food systems to be more sustainable, equitable, and healthy for all people regardless of income and wealth. In the Cape Town area, the food system is failing to adequately nourish the poor, while climate change poses increasing challenges to the region’s agricultural

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Tengö, Maria. "Management Practices for Dealing with Uncertainty and Change : Social-Ecological Systems in Tanzania and Madagascar." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för systemekologi, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-309.

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The development of human societies rests on functioning ecosystems. This thesis builds on integrated theories of linked social-ecological systems and complex adaptive systems to increase the understanding of how to strengthen the capacity of ecosystems to generate services that sustain human well-being. In this work, I analyze such capacity in human-dominated production ecosystems in Tanzania and Madagascar, and how this capacity is related to local management practices. Resilience of social-ecological systems refers to the capacity to buffer change, to re-organize following disruption, and fo

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Panzironi, Francesca. "Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-determination and Development Policy." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1699.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>This thesis analyses the concept of indigenous peoples’ right to self–determination within the international human rights system and explores viable avenues for the fulfilment of indigenous claims to self–determination through the design, implementation and evaluation of development policies. The thesis argues that development policy plays a crucial role in determining the level of enjoyment of self–determination for indigenous peoples. Development policy can offer an avenue to bypass nation states’ political unwillingness to recognize and promote indigenous peoples’ ri

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Borrelli, Greta. "The creation of a democratic food certification : How the Slow Food Participatory Guarantee System attempts to defend local food systems and traditions." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446157.

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This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. Small-holder farmers all over the

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Moura, Gustavo Goulart Moreira. "Guerras nos mares do sul: a produção de uma monocultura marítima e os processos de resistência." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/90/90131/tde-13052014-144856/.

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A pesca no estuário da Lagoa dos Patos é uma atividade em disputa. De um lado, as comunidades de pesca produzem seus territórios de pesca através dos seus respectivos Conhecimentos Ecológicos Tradicionais (CET) que embasam os diferentes modos de usos dos recursos pesqueiros, os sistemas de manejo de recursos pesqueiros tradicionais (MT). A atividade pesqueira no estuário da Lagoa dos Patos é anterior à colonização portuguesa sendo os CETs que embasam os MTs resultado de um hibridismo cultural entre indígenas, afro e luso-descendentes. De outro, o Estado Moderno implementa políticas públicas de

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Polfus, Jean. "An interdisciplinary approach to describing biological diversity." Ecology and Society; Journal of Biogeography, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31986.

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The concept of biodiversity – the phenotypic and genotypic variation among organisms – is central to conservation biology. There is growing recognition that biodiversity does not exist in isolation, but rather is intrinsically and evolutionarily linked to cultural diversity and indigenous knowledge systems. In Canada, caribou (Rangifer tarandus) occupy a central place in the livelihoods and identities of indigenous people and display substantial variation across their distribution. However, quantifying caribou intraspecific variation has proven challenging. Interdisciplinary approaches are nec

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Franco, José Raimundo Campelo. "SISTEMA LACUSTRE VIANENSE: ENSAIOS DE MODELOS CONCEITUAIS PARA OS LAGOS DO MUNICÍPIO DE VIANA-MA." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2008. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1207.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T18:20:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOSE RAIMUNDO CAMPELO FRANCO.pdf: 10423349 bytes, checksum: 524f9f05d470eab674027f0d2e1b66cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-28<br>VIANENSE LACUSTRINE SYSTEM: ESSAY OF CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR THE LAKES IN VIANA IN MARANHÃO. We consider a study about the functional aspects of the lacustrine set of Viana in Maranhão in which it is focused the dynamic and structural work and also the dynamical and structural elements of the enviroment. Highlighting the hydroclimatic factors which are responsible for the flooding mov

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Fenollosa, Artés Felip. "Contribució a l'estudi de la impressió 3D per a la fabricació de models per facilitar l'assaig d'operacions quirúrgiques de tumors." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667421.

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La present tesi doctoral s’ha centrat en el repte d’aconseguir, mitjançant Fabricació Additiva (FA), models per a assaig quirúrgic, sota la premissa que els equips per fer-los haurien de ser accessibles a l’àmbit hospitalari. L’objectiu és facilitar l’extensió de l’ús dels prototips com a eina de preparació d’operacions quirúrgiques, transformant la pràctica mèdica actual de la mateixa manera que en el seu moment ho van fer tecnologies com les que van facilitar l’ús de radiografies. El motiu d’utilitzar FA, en lloc de tecnologies més tradicionals, és la seva capacitat de materialitzar de forma

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Kaushal, Nidhi. "Traditional Knowledge in the Manacles of Intellectual Property Protection - A Study of Indian Indigenous Communities’ Rights and Claims." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33263.

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The present thesis focuses on Indian experience in the traditional knowledge sector. It argues that strong patent protection has not been conducive to the indigenous people and their traditional medicinal knowledge. Moreover, this protection has supported the pharmaceutical sector by entitling it with the patents, sourced from traditional herbal medicinal knowledge on the ground of novelty and usefulness. The thesis also investigates the scenarios, where time and again it has been proved that the current patent tool does not provide free hand to indigenous people. It advocates that the produc

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(10290812), Virginia F. Pleasant. "There's More Than Corn in Indiana: Smallholder and Alternative Farmers as a Locus of Resilience." Thesis, 2021.

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<p>This dissertation is a policy driven ethnography of smallholder and alternative farmers in Indiana that centers food justice and utilizes interdisciplinary frameworks to analyze the adaptive strategies that farmers use to address the specific challenges they face. Through the implementation of adaptive strategies such as regenerative growing practices, the cultivation of community, stewardship of the land, and an emphasis on transparency, the smallholders I worked with over the course of this study negotiate complex agricultural spaces and build the resilience of their farmsteads and the co

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Mdhuli, Ophilile. "An exploration into the effects of traditional medicine on reproductive health of rural women in Allandale Village, Mpumalanga Province." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1448.

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MAAS<br>Department of African Studies<br>This study explored into the effects of traditional medicine on reproductive health of rural women. Negative reports associated with traditional medicine due to bogus traditional practitioners expose most women to the harmful consequences of concoctions supplied and administered on them. However, factors such as people’s great confidence in traditional medicine and high costs associated with conventional Western medical treatments lead most rural women to traditional medicine usage. The study examined women’s perspectives on traditional medicine, factor

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Nyman, Sheila A. "Indigenous Ceremony and Traditional Knowledge: Exploring their use as models for healing the impacts of traumatic experiences." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5875.

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Using Indigenous methodology and a story telling method this thesis is the result of research that looks at the benefits of traditional Indigenous ceremony and healing practices as a way to heal from traumatic experiences. A thematic analysis technique was employed to reveal four themes that emerged from the stories told by Indigenous Knowledge Keeper participants. The first theme is the importance of our connection to all living things including our own selves. Another is recognizing our greatest teachers nature and animals. Cleansing emerged at the center of all traditional healing strategie

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Ramavhunga, Ndidzulafhi Esther. "Reflections on practices of u laya nwana: Towards an Afro-sensed approach." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1433.

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PhD (African Studies)<br>Department of African Studies<br>Inwi nwana, ni tou vha khundavhalai! (you child, you defeated your guide!). When a child behaved disrespectful to society, and is ill mannered, in Tshivenda, he/she would be referred to as Khundavhalai. Khundavhalai is made out of two Tshivenda words (Khunda + Vhalai which could be equalled to defeating + guides), meaning the one who defeated those who should guide him/her. The system and process of guiding could be equaled to u laya. Nwana is a child. The purpose of this study was to reflect on the Afro-centric practices of u lay

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Maragelo, Ketshogile Pauline. "Traditional agriculture and its meaning in the lives of a farming community : the case of Embo." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/940.

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Eckert, Lauren. "Towards indigenous marine management: a case study of yelloweye rockfish on the central coast of British Columbia." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8060.

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Coastal Indigenous Peoples worldwide have relied on fish and other marine resources for millennia, and continue to do so despite recent degradation of ocean systems. Their traditional ecological knowledge, comprised of experiences, observations, beliefs, and lifeways, is relevant for modern marine management and conservation. This thesis explores the utility of traditional and local ecological knowledge for extending an understanding of changes over time for places or periods in which scientific data are unavailable. This thesis had three goals: 1) undertake research that is collaborative

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Shackeroff, Janna M. "The Historical Ecology and Social-Ecological Systems of Kona Coast Coral Reefs: towards 'Peopled' Approaches to Marine Science and Management." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/650.

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<p>No corner of the world's oceans is untouched by humans. Yet in marine science, management, and conservation, oceans are consistently treated as 'unpeopled', that is, human systems are divorced systematically from ecological systems, and assumptions of human/environmental relationships are oversimplified. This dissertation aims to contribute to interdisciplinary, or 'peopled', approaches to marine sciences and management by integrating biophysical and social sciences, specifically historical ecology and resilience thinking on social-ecological systems. Herein, I examine this theoretically (C

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Ladzani, K. Y. "Moral regeneration in the lives of Vhavenda youth through indigenous knowledge systems : applied ethnography of communication-based approaches with special reference to Tshivhenda." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18662.

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Today, unlike yesterday we talk about Moral Regeneration amongst the Vhavenḓa youth of today and throughout the whole world. Strategies of combating this monster that is snatching our youth are recommended in this study. The problem dealt with in this study is the issue of Moral degeneration amongst the youth which needs to be regenerated. There are many causes of moral degeneration amongst the youth discussed in this study which are accompanied by the remedial strategies. As a way forward in this study, observations of researchers and scholars on how to find the solution about moral degenerat

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Berg, Kevan James. "Ecological and Ethnoecological Classification of a Forested Landscape in the Tayal Mrqwang Territories, Taiwan (ROC)." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/6966.

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In landscape ecology, it is widely acknowledged that landscape is as much a social and cultural entity as it is biophysical, and that people and place must be jointly considered to fully understand the evolution of spatial pattern. This thesis explores the overlapping biophysical and human dimensions of landscape in the context of an (i) ecological and (ii) ethnoecological classification on the local landscape of the Tayal Mrqwang indigenous people in north central Taiwan. The goal of the ecological classification was to identify ecosystem types for a ~3000 acre landscape by relating vegetatio

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Almeida, Ana Sofia Vilarinho de. "A iniciativa "Sistemas Importantes do Património Agrícola Mundial (SIPAM/GIAHS)" como estratégia de preservação dinâmica de património: estudo de caso do sistema agro-silvo-pastoril do Barroso." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19655.

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Os sistemas de produção agrícola tradicionais têm funções primordiais na preservação do ambiente, da cultura, de regimes alimentares sustentáveis e de conhecimentos importantes para vários desafios que a humanidade enfrenta. Numa tentativa de resposta a este desafio, a FAO - Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura, lançou em 2002 a iniciativa SIPAM - Sistemas Importantes do Património Agrícola Mundial com o objetivo de fomentar a manutenção dinâmica destes territórios em todo o mundo (sobretudo no continente asiático e africano). No entanto, é notória a ausência de in

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Van, Halsema Wybe. "Endogenous development of natural resource management in the communal areas of Southern Zimbabwe : a case study approach." Diss., 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16300.

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Despite decades of development efforts to combat desertification processes in southern Zimbabwe, a development deadlock occurs. Using the local knowledge systems as a basis, and making an effort to strategically facilitate the revival of their capacity for checks and balances as a development approach, endogenous development could become more realistic. The actor-oriented RAAKS.methodology offers relevant tools for a case study'in which an insight into the processes of innovation is obtained in order to confirm this. The Charurnbira case study shows that many local interfaces hinder deve

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Tembane, Seleka Maria. "A comparative study of medical and health terms with special reference to seSotho sa Leboa and Western teminology." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26660.

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This study focuses on the comparison of medical and health terms with special reference to Sesotho sa Leboa and Western languages. The study was conducted in the communities of Zebediela, Groblersdal and Marble Hall. From time immemorial, traditional medical and health terms were associated with certain types of diseases and health problems among Africans. With the introduction of Western civilisation, most of the medical and health terms which were used in the past by the Basotho ba Leboa, are no longer in use, as Western languages are regarded as prestige languages compared to the indi

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Mphahlele, Komane Matthews. "Innovation agenda for South Africa in the 21st century : towards an alternative inclusive and integrative model." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8561.

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The founding documents for a new, democratic South Africa adopted a more inclusive and people-driven approach to innovation. The literature and policy analysis reveals a „shift‟ away from this approach to a more market-driven, exclusivist approach to innovation. R&D (research and development) and technology-driven innovation had been institutionalised at the expense of social, cultural and indigenous innovations. This „shift‟ limits the potential of innovation to benefit a wider segment of society. The absence of a „model‟ of innovation that exploits the strengths of all forms of innovation r

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Sarapura, Silvia L. "Gender and Agricultural Innovation in Peasant Production of Native Potatoes in the Central Andes of Peru." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/6661.

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Native potatoes are an important element of food security both as a direct food source and as a cash crop for peasant producers in the Andes of Peru. Production is basically for self-consumption and the shift to commercialization is a challenge. As a response, the Papa Andina Initiative (COGEPAN) was initiated to promote market innovation and pro-vide relative advantage to producers to respond to emerging markets. Research is limited on the integration, information and communication in relation to social relations. Old and new nonreciprocal relations and roles among stakeholders, consequences

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Husaini, Danladi Chiroma. "Guidelines on the use of indigenous-western anti-hypertensive therapies in Belize." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27136.

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This study’s objectives were to identify, describe, and provide guidelines on using indigenous-western antihypertensive therapies in Belize to examine indigenous therapies’ efficacy in lowering blood pressure. The researcher utilized an explanatory sequential mixed method research design to examine indigenous-western therapies. Data were collected quantitatively from the general public (n=422) and qualitatively from hypertensive patients (n=24) using indigenous therapies and vendors (n=19) of indigenous therapies. The study results identified 47 different medicinal plants used in the managemen

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Jongisa, Lethukuthula Lemon. "Performance of indigenous farming practices : a case study of maize land use types in Umzimkulu area, Eastern Cape." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3435.

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Although conventional or scientific farming practices have been encouraged and promoted by state and other agencies, rural and resource poorfarmers have increasingly resorted to indigenous farming practices. This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that indigenous farming practices are not only environmentalfriendly, but are more profitable than conventional practices. A conceptual framework for testing the hypothesis was formulated based on a comparison of Margins above Specified Cost of indigenous and conventional farming practices. The data required were identified and a methodology

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