Local and Indigenous Knowledge Regarding the Land Use and Use of Other Natural Resources in the Aspiring Rio Coco Geopark

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/95/5/052018" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/95/5/052018</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/95/5/052018" target="_blank" >10.1088/1755-1315/95/5/052018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local and Indigenous Knowledge Regarding the Land Use and Use of Other Natural Resources in the Aspiring Rio Coco Geopark

Original language description

There is a limited number of studies describing the situation and importance of current or potential usage of the local and indigenous traditional environmental knowledge in the region of Northern Nicaragua. To fill this gap, the author supported by a local team conducted the participative research in this rather neglected Central American region, concretely in the northern area of the aspiring Rio Coco Geopark. The purpose of this research was to identify the local and indigenous knowledge regarding the present and traditional use of natural resources including land use and to analyse the contribution and potential of the usage of this knowledge for the local development sustainability. The research process itself was of the same importance as its results, especially the involvement of the local and indigenous people. In this participative research, young local and indigenous people obtained training and served as co-investigators who later interviewed representatives of the local households. The other field methods included life history of elders, discussions in the focal groups involving common people from local communities as well as the mapping and photo-documentation of the identified local and indigenous traditional environmental knowledge. The participative character of the research process not only facilitated the data collection and validation but also supported the revival of the community memory and revitalization of its cultural and natural identity. The research findings point out that the more distant and more dispersed are the local settlements the better conserved local and indigenous knowledge regarding the traditional land use and other use of natural resources is. Among the best-conserved local and indigenous traditional environmental knowledge in the northern area of the aspiring Rio Coco Geopark was the usage of the earth material and plants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

IOP conference series: earth and environmental science

ISBN

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ISSN

1755-1307

e-ISSN

1755-1315

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

Publisher name

IOP publishing

Place of publication

Bristol

Event location

Praha, Česká republika

Event date

Sep 11, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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