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Local Ecological Learning: Creating Place-based Knowledge through Collaborative Wildlife Research on Private Lands
Wildlife across all land tenures is under threat from anthropogenic drivers including climate change, invasive species, and habitat loss. This study...
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Bridging local and scientific knowledge for area-based conservation of useful plants in Colombia
While the importance of interdisciplinary approaches is increasingly recognised in conservation, bridging knowledge systems across scales remains a...
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Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)
Living with wildfires in an era of climate change requires adaptation and weaving together many forms of knowledge. Empirical evidence of knowledge...
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Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France
Local food initiatives, which seek to shorten distances between producers and consumers, have thrived and been much researched over the past two...
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The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment
Evidence is increasing of human responses to the impacts of climate change in Africa. However, understanding of the effectiveness of these responses...
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Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking
Urbanization can pose water management challenges in cities while overlooking the possibilities of residents’ lived experience and collaborative...
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Integrating local ecological knowledge and remote sensing reveals patterns and drivers of forest cover change: North Korea as a case study
Satellite-based remote sensing approaches provide a cost-efficient means to collect information on the world’s forests and to repeatedly survey...
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Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: a transferable framework for participatory, place-based, narrative-science knowledge exchange
This paper evaluates a unique, transdisciplinary participatory research and knowledge exchange methodology developed in the Drought Risk and You...
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Socio-Ecological Approach to a Forest-Swamp-Savannah Mosaic Landscape Using Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge: a Case Study in the Bas-Ogooué Ramsar Site, Gabon
Studies of landscape dynamics in protected areas often rely exclusively on remotely-sensed data, leading to bias by neglecting how local inhabitants,...
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Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their...
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Against the grain: environmental laws, local botanical knowledge, and housing access in Rio de Janeiro
This article considers how the construction practices of marginalized communities in Rio de Janeiro link the provision of essential housing to...
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The spectrum of knowledge: integrating knowledge dimensions in the context of forests and climate change
Integrated approaches to knowledge that recognize meaning, behavior, culture, and systems as domains of knowledge are increasingly employed in...
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Knowledge based interventions for sustainable development cooperation: insights from knowledge systems mapping in Zambia
Knowledge is an essential determinant and component of the international development cooperation agenda and projects. Therefore, it is vital to...
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Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals
In an evolving world, effectively managing human–natural systems under uncertainty becomes paramount, particularly when targeting the United Nations...
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Production and Circulation of Local Knowledge About Air Pollution and Health Effects in Ghana
According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is the main environmental health risk at the global scale, but it affects more particularly...
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Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: a Transformative Approach to Biodiversity Legislation in Nigeria
Indigenous communities worldwide have cultivated and preserved invaluable ecological knowledge on biodiversity conservation long before the...
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems
The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the...
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Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic...
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Cyclone Komen’s aftermath: Local knowledge shows how poverty and inequalities fuel climate risk in western Myanmar
Cyclones and other extreme events exert increasing pressure on South-East Asia’s societies and put smallholder farmers at risk. Here, we draw on...
