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Accepted Paper:
Traditional knowledge in conservation: a social-ecological perspective for understanding the culture, nature dynamic
Julian Jansen van Rensburg
(Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
Paper short abstract:
This paper looks at how a social-ecological perspective can allow us a deeper understanding into the societal activities and dynamics associated with traditional knowledge systems and how this can be used to better understand the interactions and dependencies between cultural and natural systems.
Paper long abstract:
This paper looks at how a social-ecological perspective can allow us a deeper understanding into the societal activities and dynamics associated with traditional knowledge systems can be used to better understand the Interactions and dependencies between cultural and natural systems and how this can be used to better inform conservation and management. Moreover, this paper will highlight the considerable research gap that exists between the conservation of nature alongside culture and highlight possibilities in ways that we can understand the temporal scale relationship between humans and their environment.