Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Practices and skills to reduce community vulnerability and cope with hazards, accumulated over many years of living in a specific environment and passed down from one generation to another.

Latest Traditional and Indigenous knowledges additions in the Knowledge Base

Urban garden planting in Mexico City
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Proponents say that floating gardens could provide an important, sustainable food source as the city faces historic drought.
Reasons to be Cheerful
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My research shows the 2023 fires burned more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. This is larger than the whole of New South Wales, or more than three times the size of the United Kingdom.
Conversation Media Group, the
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The Guna people of Panama's sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels
Context
Redwood forest canopy
Research briefs
A report by a team of 40 experts outlines a new approach to forest stewardship that “braids together” Indigenous knowledge and Western science to conserve and restore more resilient forestlands.
University of Washington
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Documents and publications
The research and action agenda is designed to focus future efforts to help those who are experiencing, or will experience, the compounding mental health challenges of climate change.
Research briefs
This study documents evidence of the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge in reducing vulnerability to climate change and/or improving the resilience of communities.
weADAPT
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Documents and publications
This paper explores how transformative adaptation towards more sustainable and resilient urban societies can be achieved through the inclusion of traditional knowledge, indigenous practices, and the bearers of such knowledge – the communities.
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This podcast tackles how flooding in Fiji is having flow-on effects on markets and the availability of some fruit and vegetables across the country.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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