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Bringing Ethnobiology into the Modern Landscape - A discussion of the reasons, methods, and challenges 
Convenor:
Sofia Penabaz-Wiley (Chiba University)
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Format:
Roundtable
Sessions:
Friday 29 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The roundtable panel discussion of ideas will include: reasons and ways to bring ethnobiology into the modern day; landscape types such as urban and rural; methods for planting, showing, and interacting; possible new interactions; and overcoming change resistance in society and government.

Long Abstract:

The aim of the roundtable panel discussion will be to address how to bring ethnobiology back into everyday life for human beings. We will discuss ideas for past ways of planting, showing, or interacting that can be adaptated for use in the modern technological age. It is our hope that with this discussion, many ideas for expanding ethnobiology into societal systems can be formulated and thus new areas of research can emerge and new connections between us and our world can evolve.

The panel discussion will include reasons for bringing ethnobiology into the present modern day for average people in their localities. We will generally be considering urban and rural landscapes in developed and developing countries. We will contemplate various possible methods, both soft and hard, for bringing it into average people's lives in places where traditional knowledge is fading. With soft methods we would be considering what kinds of social and communication-based methods we could use. With hard methods will discuss concrete changes in architecture, landscape architecture, horticulture, maintenance training, and other physical aspects of the landscape or physical states. This would naturally include types of possible interactions that folks could have with nature that might not be possible without such innovations. Finally, we will discuss the possible challenges and interactions with local and national governments and societal norms to defeat change resistance and modernize our relationship with nature.

The panel discussion will be shorter than others to open it to outside ideas for a longer Q&A session.

Accepted participant details:

Session 1 Friday 29 October, 2021, -
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