Description
This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization have isolated the indigenous people from practicing ‘traditional ways of life.’ Portrayed in this book is the indigenous people’s perspective of their indigenous knowledge (IK) about the environment and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife, and nature. Insight is shared into why acknowledging IK as a science can help solve climate change, food and nutrition insecurity, and increasing new types of pandemics through evidence‑based stories from indigenous people.
Features:
• Bridges the fractured space between science and nature.
• Documents the perspectives of indigenous peoples about their ancestral knowledge.
• Provides ethnographic qualitative comparative case studies of forest‑dwelling indigenous peoples over a 19‑year period.
• Covers largely remote indigenous territories of ten tropical countries in the Global South.
• Provides evidence‑based stories examining indigenous knowledge’s role in the tropics in preserving diverse landscapes and providing nature‑based solutions.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Prof.dr. Bernd van der Meulen
Chapter 1
Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge: Introduction
Chapter 2
‘Nature-Based Knowledge’ Aligning Science and Wisdom
Chapter 3
Extractive Industries Mining Way in Indigenous and Local Communities
Chapter 4
Food as Commodity – ‘Super’ Food Insecurity of Indigenous Peoples: Analysis from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Chapter 5
Pastoralists, Nomadic Movements, and Identity in Tropical Grasslands
Chapter 6
Factory Schools: Erasing Children’s Indigenous Knowledge and Languages
Chapter 7
Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife Coexistence in Tropical Mountains: Socio-Cultural Impact
Chapter 8
Communicating the Art of Bridging Indigenous Knowledge with Science and Policy
