The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer
ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews …

Ecologists and conservationists increasingly acknowledge that traditional ecological
knowledge (TEK) is vital for a better understanding and conservation of biodiversity; for …

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples
around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing …

Research on ecosystem services has become a dominant field within environmental
management, framing the way in which human–nature relationships are understood and …

In various parts of Africa, scholars have paid a great deal of attention to TEK, focusing mainly
on their role in biodiversity conservation or natural resource management. Despite …

Biodiversity of European cultural landscapes is threatened by land abandonment and
intensification. While the conservation benefits of traditional management practices have …

Local ecological knowledge and the land use practices of forest resource users who rely on
this form of knowledge play a crucial role for biodiversity conservation in managed forests …

Landscapes are closely linked to human well-being, but they are undergoing rapid and
fundamental change. Understanding the societal transformation underlying these landscape …

Agroforestry offers proven strategies as an environmentally benign and ecologically
sustainable land management practice to promote ecosystem services. In this literature …

Land use change at the local stage affects the flow of ecosystem services at all levels.
Analyzing the causes of land use change such as anthropogenic activities in the case of the …