| Title | Local Ecological Knowledge in Natural Resource Management. |
| Publication Type | Manuscript |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Authors | Joshi, L.; Arévalo, L.; Luque, N.; Alegre, J.; Sinclair, F. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org; l.joshi@cgiar.org |
| Pagination | 1-16 |
| Date Published | March 2004 |
| Keywords | ASB, conibo, Indonesia, Local knowledge, Pucallpa, shipibo, sumberjaya, Ucayali |
| Abstract | Rural people’s livelihoods depend on their knowledge to manage available natural resources. Their knowledge continues to evolve under changing circumstances, based on personal experience and observations and acquired from secondary sources. In contrast to the populist view of cultural embedded of local knowledge, we assert that farmers knowledge that have developed and used in their decision making have ecological rationality in most cases and can be differentiated from cultural and supernatural aspects. While local insights may be comparable with scientific understanding in some respects, it may also differ in its scope and structure. |
| URL | http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Joshi_et_al_2004_LEK.pdf |
