Researching on how Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ knowledge is affected by environmental change and how such knowledge can contribute to understand environmental change impacts.
We strive for a better understanding of the conditions under which indigenous and local ecological knowledge can contribute to positive environmental outcomes and to the understanding of the manifestations, drivers and impacts of nature degradation and climate change.
We are interested in the conditions under which Indigenous and local ecological knowledge systems can contribute to positive environmental outcomes (e.g., stewardship and sustainable management of natural resources, biodiversity conservation).
We are also keen on exploring the potential of indigenous and of local knowledge systems to improve our understanding of local environmental change impacts on physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems and how such impacts are locally perceived and which strategies people adopt in their quest to adapt to change.
Un índice de vulnerabilidad socio-ambiental para apoyar en el diseño de nuevas políticas de desarrollo rural en España
Bringing indigenous and local knowledge to climate change policy.
This study aims to empirically test a novel model for assessing the resilience of IPLC’s health care system taking a social-ecological lens. It addresses the current need to better understand how Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities' health care systems could adapt to current and future global change.
This project aims to enrich ethnobiology’s field-based ethos with a global analytical focus, connecting on-the-ground realities with the higher spheres of international decision-making.
Using systematic ethnobiological place-based data collection in a unique research site in the Bolivian Amazon with an untapped wealth of baseline information, this project will rigorously assess the processes through which Indigenous knowledge systems change over time, and measure different ecological impacts associated with such changes.
This project evaluated citizen science as a tool to increase and diversify participation in traditional ecological knowledge conservation.
Local and global approaches to sustainable territory management in the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve, Morocco
Spearheading heritization procedures for conserving and supporting pastoral ICCAs in Mwanda-Marungu, Taita hills, Kenya
Identifying the socio-ecological dynamics of agroecosystems, agrobiodiversity and anthropised landscapes of the Mediterranean
Exploring the possibilities of a paradigmatic pastoral common of Montenegro and its natural and cultural ‘heritage’ values
Studying the performance of Hispano-Moroccan pastoral commons and their natural and cultural ‘heritage’ values
Communal governance systems for the sustainability of cultural land use practices securing biodiversity
Investigating the effectiveness of community-based conservation through a co-enquiry approach
How knowledge about urban water supply was codified and transmitted during Barcelona's Little Ice Age (1300-1850 AD)
In-depth ethnographical description and eco-anthropological analysis of the customary-based management system of pastoral resources among the Wahehe, agropastoral group of Iringa region, Tanzania
A cross-cultural analysis of the returns of Local Environmental Knowledge in three indigenous societies
The effects of roads on indigenous people’s well-being and use of natural resources. A natural experiment in lowland Bolivia
A longitudinal study to examine how market exposure and modernization affect the well-being of a highly autarkic population, the Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon
The project will research and develop a ‘living heritage’ approach to conservation, promoting the ‘protection through use’ of upland environments and adjacent rural areas.
