Indigenous Local Knowledge as a Key to Local-level Development: Possibilities, Constraints and Planning Issues in the Context of Africa
Author: Oluwayomi David Atte
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 58
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Indigenous Local Knowledge as Key to Local Level Development
Author: Oluwayomi David Atteh
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopment and Local Knowledge
Author: Alan Bicker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1134368178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.
Investigating Local Knowledge
Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0429583141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world, increasingly affected by globalizing forces. Such knowledge is far more sophisticated than development professionals previously assumed and, as such, represents an immensely valuable resource. A growing number of governments and international development agencies are recognizing that local-level knowledge and organizations offer the foundation for new participatory models of development that are both cost-effective and sustainable, and ecologically and socially sound. This book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments, devising mechanisms to conserve and sustain their natural resources, and establishing community-based organizations that serve as forums for identifying problems and dealing with them through local-level experimentation, innovation, and exchange of information with other societies. These studies show that development activities that work with and through local knowledge and organizations have several important advantages over projects that operate outside them. Local knowledge informs grassroots decision-making, much of which takes place through indigenous organizations and associations at the community level as people seek to identify and determine solutions to their problems.
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
Author: William J. Sutherland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1108714587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover how conservation can be made more effective through strengthening links between science research, policy and practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Participating in Development
Author: Alan Bicker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1134514042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopment has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative approaches. One of those being pioneered is 'indigenous knowledge', which aims to make local voices heard more effectively. However while it is increasingly acknowledged in development contexts, it is yet to be validated and accepted by anthropologists. It is self-evident to any anthropologist that effective development assistance will benefit from some understanding of local knowledge and practices. This therefore puts anthropology and anthropologists at the centre of development. This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. First of all how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it as it currently lacks disciplinary coherence. Secondly once this definition is achieved what methodologies should be used in such an interdisciplinary research endeavour when it must meet the demands of development (cost- and time-effective, intelligible to non-experts) while not compromising anthropological expectations. The new opportunities and their methodological implications are addressed in the chapters of this book in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts and demonstrate how wide-reaching and how crucially important this debate has become. Participating in Development is a thought provoking and challenge collection. Its authors both define and validate the role of the anthropologist in development as well of development in anthropology.
Linking the Indigenous Sami People with Regional Development in Sweden
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789264310568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sami have lived for time immemorial in an area that today extends across the Kola Peninsula in Russia, northern Finland, northern Norway's coast and inland, and the northern half of Sweden. The Sami play an important role in these northern economies thanks to their use of land, their involvement in reindeer husbandry, agriculture/farming and food production, and connection with the region's tourism industry. However, in Sweden, as in the other states where the Sami live, the connections with regional development are often inconsistent and weak, and could do more to support the preservation and promotion of Sami culture and create new employment and business opportunities. This study, together with the OECD's broader thematic work on this topic, provides actionable recommendations on how to better include the Sami and other Indigenous Peoples in regional development strategies, learning from and incorporating their own perspectives on sustainable development in the process.
Local Knowledge Matters
Author: Nugroho, Kharisma
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018-07-04
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1447348087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledge-to-policy process means, who is involved and how different communities can engage in the policy process. Ten diverse case studies are used from around Indonesia, addressing issues such as forest management, water resources, maritime resource management and financial services. By making extensive use of quotes from the field, the book allows the reader to ‘hear’ the perspectives and beliefs of community members around local knowledge and its effects on individual and community life.
Water for a Changing World - Developing Local Knowledge and Capacity
Author: Guy Alaerts
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0203878051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers represents the outcomes of the International Symposiumheld in Delft, The Netherlands, on June 13-15, 2007, at the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. The papers discusshow to contribute to the sustainability of effective international development andwater management with a diges
