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The Many Elements of Traditional Fire Knowledge: Synthesis, Classification, and Aids to Cross-cultural Problem Solving in Fire-dependent Systems Around the World
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Huffman, Mary R.; The Nature Conservancy; mhuffman@tnc.org.
I examined the hypothesis that traditional social-ecological fire systems around the world include common elements of traditional fire knowledge (TFK). I defined TFK as fire-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices that have been developed and applied on specific landscapes for specific purposes by long time inhabitants. In all, 69 distinct elements of TFK were documented in 35 studies, including accounts from 27 countries on 6 continents. On all 6 continents, 21 elements (30%) were recorded, and 46 elements (67%) were recorded on 4 or more continents. The top 12 most commonly reported elements, which were included in &gt; 50 % of the studies, were fire effects on vegetation; season of the year; fire effects on animals; moisture of live or dead fuels; the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Ecological anthropology; Fire management; Indigenous; Pyrogeography; Traditional ecological knowledge; Traditional fire knowledge; Wildland fire.
Ano: 2013

Indigenous Past Climate Knowledge as Cultural Built-in Object and Its Accuracy
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Leclerc, Christian; CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France; christian.leclerc@cirad.fr; Mwongera, Caroline ; Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France; carolmwongera@yahoo.com.
In studying indigenous climate knowledge, two approaches can be envisioned. In the first, traditional knowledge is a cultural built-in object; conceived as a whole, its relevance can be assessed by referring to other cultural, economic, or technical components at work within an indigenous society. In the second, the accuracy of indigenous climate knowledge is assessed with western science knowledge used as an external reference. However, assessing the accuracy of indigenous climate knowledge remains a largely untapped area. We aim to show how accurate the culturally built indigenous climate knowledge of extreme climatic events is, and how amenable it is to fuzzy logic. A retrospective survey was carried out individually and randomly among 195 Eastern...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Drought; Ecological anthropology; Fuzzy logic; Kenya; Meru; Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ano: 2013

Remarkable Properties of Human Ecosystems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Stepp, John Richard; University of Florida; stepp@anthro.ufl.edu; Jones, Eric C; University of Georgia;; Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell; ;; Casagrande, David; ;; Zarger, Rebecca K; ;.
This paper explores some of the remarkable properties that set human ecosystems apart from nonhuman ecosystems. The identification of these properties provides a framework for bridging the theoretical and methodological divide between biological ecology and human ecology. The unique information-processing capability of humans in ecosystems is central to this framework. We discuss several manifestations of human cognitive and behavioral abilities, termed "remarkable properties" of human ecosystems. A cross-cultural and historical approach is taken in demonstrating some of these properties. Related to these properties are the ways in which complex functional and dysfunctional or maladaptive processes take place in human ecosystems. We assert that one of the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Ecological anthropology; Human ecosystems; Information ecology; Remarkable properties.
Ano: 2003