"Time in Service to Historical Ecology" - "Roads Diverging in Yellow Woods: New Paths for Ecological and Environmental Anthropology" - "Ecology & Anthropology: A Field without Future?" are some the names of the articles in the new journal Ecological… more »
Category: "ecology nature"
by lorenz on Apr 22, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, ecology nature, Saami, Arctic / Northern Regions
Six Degrees, Finnland
Greenpeace have set up a Forest Rescue Station in Finnish Lapland to stop the logging of forests used as natural pastures by Sami reindeer herders. This action also highlights outstanding disputes concerning the land rights of th… more »
by lorenz on Apr 20, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, ecology nature, inuit, Arctic / Northern Regions
APCanadian Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier won the 2005 Sophia environment prize Wednesday for drawing attention to the impact of climate change and pollution on the traditional lifestyles of the Arctic's indigenous people and others. Ms. Watt-Clou… more »
by lorenz on Apr 13, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, development empowerment, ecology nature
ZNet
Despite their small numbers, the Sakhalin aborigines are standing up to multinational energy companies that are developing oil and gas deposits on the island. On March 25-26, representatives of the Nivkh, Orok, Evenk, and Nanai peoples of Sakhali… more »
by lorenz on Apr 11, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Asia, development empowerment, ecology nature
IPS News
A new dam funded by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB ) and hailed as a windfall for Laos may end up doing more harm than good to one of the world's poorest nations and its vulnerable farmers, several independent development… more »
Scoop, New Zealand
For the first time in its fifteen-year history, the world's most prestigious award in marine conservation has been given to an anthropologist.
Dr. Shankar Aswani, an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropolo… more »
by lorenz on Jan 20, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, ecology nature, Tsunami Dec 2004, Andaman & Nicobar societies
BBC
Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar… more »
by lorenz on Nov 10, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, development empowerment, ecology nature, Native American
IPS News
- Buenos Aires has unexpectedly become the new stage for a long-standing battle between an Argentine oil company and an Ecuadorian indigenous community fighting to defend its ancestral land rights in the Amazon rainforest.
Representatives… more »
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