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Accepted Paper:

Traditional knowledge studies and new model of world outlook  
Viacheslav Rudnev (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology)

Paper short abstract:

Traditional Knowledge (in particularly folk experience in nature using and life-support activity) has important role in creation a new global consciousness – positive base for action on harmonizing situation in relationships between nature and society in regime of sparing nature.

Paper long abstract:

Ethnological research has testify, that in the traditional culture of each nation, there is a file of knowledge that reflecting original experience in nature observation and nature using.

Modern society has a lot of problems and relationships in the nature-society system has priority as a factor of high risk for society's survival, for society's future. Huge pressing of industrial society on nature has led to disturbing the balance of nature and society. New high level technologies have allowed to mankind get high effect in nature using, but were not capable to create a mechanism for adequately compensating of negative collateral consequences of human activity, similarly to nature. Folk societies learned to integrate the use of renewable resources at an optimum level into their traditional cultures. Integration environment education with original data bank on folk heritage in human nature using and life-support activity on local level have global meaning for society. Problems of the relationships between nature and society have stimulated World-wide discussion of the topic at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

In my lecture I'll focus attention on perspectives of using folk heritage in human adaptation to nature (in particularly folk technologies useful for fertilizing soil - that is top actual problem for modern) in education process for solving modern ecological problems and creation new model of World outlook (aimed to harmonize situation on relationships between nature and society).

Panel P24
An ambiguous position: traditional knowledge, economic exploitation and research
  Session 1