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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,098 Views
20 Pages

Mining and Indigenous Peoples of the North: Assessment and Development Prospects

  • Evdokia Burtseva,
  • Anatolii Sleptsov,
  • Anna Bysyina,
  • Alla Fedorova and
  • Gavril Dyachkovskii

The main industry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is the mining industry, which will continue to expand in the future. Already today there are quite a lot of investment projects for the development of minerals in the Arctic, North-West and South Y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,013 Views
17 Pages

Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North traditionally live on the territory of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Growing industrial activities on their traditional natural resource management territories (hereinafter TNRMT) raise issues of assessi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,695 Views
14 Pages

In the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, hereinafter SR, the Arctic zones are the original habitat of indigenous peoples, who can conduct economic activities only in undisturbed or lightly disturbed lands. From this point of view, the problem of compensation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,782 Views
20 Pages

Collaborative Research on the Ecology and Management of the ‘Wulo’ Monsoon Rainforest in Wunambal Gaambera Country, North Kimberley, Australia

  • Tom Vigilante,
  • Stefania Ondei,
  • Catherine Goonack,
  • Desmond Williams,
  • Paul Young and
  • David M. J. S. Bowman

5 October 2017

Indigenous groups are increasingly combining traditional ecological knowledge and Western scientific approaches to inform the management of their lands. We report the outcomes of a collaborative research project focused on key ecological questions as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,823 Views
43 Pages

Ethnobotany in Iturbide, Nuevo León: The Traditional Knowledge on Plants Used in the Semiarid Mountains of Northeastern Mexico

  • Eduardo Estrada-Castillón,
  • José Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla,
  • Luis Gerardo Cuéllar-Rodríguez,
  • Martí March-Salas,
  • Juan Antonio Encina-Domínguez,
  • Wibke Himmeslbach,
  • María Magdalena Salinas-Rodríguez,
  • Jacqueline Guerra,
  • Mauricio Cotera-Correa and
  • Tania Vianney Gutiérrez-Santillán
  • + 6 authors

6 October 2022

Iturbide is in the northeast of Mexico and has a rich native and exotic flora; however, there are no ethnobotanical records, therefore, it requires attention in the documentation of traditional knowledge and practices of its botanical resources. In 2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,575 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2016

Among American Indian nations, the White Mountain Apache Tribe has been at the forefront of a struggle to control natural resource management within reservation boundaries. In 1952, they developed the first comprehensive tribal natural resource manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,467 Views
8 Pages

Water management and competition between users in water scarce river basins is a major challenge facing the human race. The inter dependence of users in such basins, necessitates a clear understanding of each user in relation to the location, the wat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,325 Views
31 Pages

30 October 2015

Considering water resource scarcity and uncertainty in climate and demand futures, decision-makers require techniques for sustainability analysis in resource management. Through unclear definitions of “sustainability”, however, traditional indices fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,163 Views
18 Pages

In the context of a changing environment and economic globalization, the evolution of regional hydrology and water resources systems has undergone profound changes. It is not enough to rely on traditional physical water resources planning, scheduling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,469 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2018

Much of the international commons literature reveals a decreased functioning of local traditional institutions that regulate natural resource harvesting. In South Africa, it is believed that the creation of new democratic structures at the end of Apa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,151 Views
20 Pages

Kumeyaay people were historically hunter-gatherers with a strong relationship with their natural resources. Due to various processes, such as missionary colonization, agrarian reform, and the definition of the border between the USA and Mexico in 183...

  • Review
  • Open Access
784 Views
16 Pages

Biological Control Strategies and Integrated Arthropod Pest Management for Camellia oleifera

  • Yifei Xie,
  • Jinxiu Yu,
  • Wan Deng,
  • Shaofeng Peng,
  • Chi Li,
  • Xuanye Wen,
  • Wuhong Zhong and
  • Mi Li

9 December 2025

Camellia oleifera, commonly known as oil-tea, serves as one of China’s most economically important oil crops. To ensure continued production yield and quality, biological control measures, operating within the framework of integrated pest manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,693 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2019

Dominant development discourse holds that water scarcity reflects geophysical limitations, lack of infrastructure or lack of government provision. However, this paper outlines the ways in which scarcity can only be fully explained in the context of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,949 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2024

This paper analyzes the events that originated an integrated water resources management (IWRM) model called Consorcio de Aguas de la Marina Baja (CAMB), in the province of Alicante (Spain), in 1978. The impact of tourism and population growth in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,480 Views
19 Pages

Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

  • Ricardo Eaton-González,
  • Jorge Andrade-Sánchez,
  • Tatiana Montaño-Soto,
  • Paola Andrade-Tafoya,
  • Diana Brito-Jaime,
  • Krystal González-Estupiñán,
  • Andrea Guía-Ramírez,
  • Jesús Rodríguez-Canseco,
  • Argelia Teon-Vega and
  • Silvia Balderas-López

Participatory mapping is a tool for community work linked to natural resource management. It is an auxiliary for diagnosis and data acquisition from communities and their natural resources. In Baja California, there are several indigenous communities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,875 Views
17 Pages

3 August 2018

Because of the numerous types of world heritage that currently exist, UNESCO divides them into four categories: cultural heritage, natural heritage, cultural and heritage dual heritage, and cultural landscape heritage. Taiwan’s Cultural Heritag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,604 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2020

Several Native American communities assert traditional ties to Yosemite Valley, and special connections to the exceptional landmarks and natural resources of Yosemite National Park. However, tribal claims relating to this highly visible park with its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,345 Views
12 Pages

Scholarly discourse on sacred natural sites (SNS) has focused on ecological significance, associated impacts and traditional practices as the instruments of resource governance and management. As a result, little scholarship has examined the role of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,089 Views
8 Pages

1 September 2025

Chazence is a subsidiary of Zence Object Technology Company in the Greater Bay Area of China. It is a sustainable enterprise that combines tea industry consumables (tea residue) with fiber composite technology to replace traditional materials and con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,018 Views
12 Pages

Water-resource challenges, encompassing both quality and quantity, pose significant threats to Florida’s ecosystems, especially in the face of climate change, rising sea levels, and rapid urbanization. This paper explores the innovative stormwa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,011 Views
29 Pages

Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Fishermen: People Contributing towards Environmental Preservation

  • Wandicleia Lopes de Sousa,
  • Diego Maia Zacardi and
  • Thiago Almeida Vieira

19 April 2022

Studies on traditional ecological knowledge are relevant from the point of view of valuing traditional populations and environmental preservation of ecosystems throughout the planet. We aim to analyze the environmental preservation practices transmit...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,195 Views
19 Pages

Linking Land and Sea through Collaborative Research to Inform Contemporary applications of Traditional Resource Management in Hawai‘i

  • Jade M.S. Delevaux,
  • Kawika B. Winter,
  • Stacy D. Jupiter,
  • Mehana Blaich-Vaughan,
  • Kostantinos A. Stamoulis,
  • Leah L. Bremer,
  • Kimberly Burnett,
  • Peter Garrod,
  • Jacquelyn L. Troller and
  • Tamara Ticktin

3 September 2018

Across the Pacific Islands, declining natural resources have contributed to a cultural renaissance of customary ridge-to-reef management approaches. These indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCA) are initiated by local communities to protect n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2025

Accurate characterization of aquifer hydrogeological parameters is critical for sustainable groundwater resource management. Traditional methods such as pumping tests often assume aquifer homogeneity and require substantial resources, limiting their...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,147 Views
21 Pages

Human Communities in Protected Natural Areas and Biodiversity Conservation

  • Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez,
  • Heidi Leticia Romero-Schmidt,
  • María del Carmen Blázquez,
  • Camilo Arias-González and
  • Alfredo Ortega-Rubio

31 May 2022

Using socioecological concepts and within a historical biodiversity conservation context, this research study reviews the main interactions between human communities and protected natural areas (PNAs) to describe their different stages over time and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,229 Views
18 Pages

10 March 2023

Agricultural abandonment is one of the main land-use changes in Europe, and its consequences on biodiversity are context- and taxa-dependent. While several studies have worked on this topic, few have focused on traditional orchards, especially in dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,378 Views
15 Pages

Collective Perception of Anthropic and Extractive Interventions in the Colombian Llanos

  • Luca Eufemia,
  • Hector Morales,
  • Michelle Bonatti,
  • Maximilian Graser,
  • Marcos Lana and
  • Stefan Sieber

9 September 2019

Increasingly, the developmental model of anthropic and extractive interventions is a global concern. Its impacts are challenging not only the precarious equilibrium of natural resources but also the one of local communities and identities. The case o...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,580 Views
12 Pages

Will Genomic Information Facilitate Forest Tree Breeding for Disease and Pest Resistance?

  • Richard A. Sniezko,
  • Jennifer Koch,
  • Jun-Jun Liu and
  • Jeanne Romero-Severson

6 December 2023

Forest trees are beleaguered by the ever-increasing onslaught of invasive pests and pathogens, with some species in danger of functional extinction. Recent successes in developing resistant populations using traditional tree breeding assures that som...

  • Review
  • Open Access
106 Citations
28,001 Views
23 Pages

Valorization of Food Waste as Animal Feed: A Step towards Sustainable Food Waste Management and Circular Bioeconomy

  • Pinku Chandra Nath,
  • Amiya Ojha,
  • Shubhankar Debnath,
  • Minaxi Sharma,
  • Prakash Kumar Nayak,
  • Kandi Sridhar and
  • Baskaran Stephen Inbaraj

16 April 2023

The growing population and healthy food demands have led to a rise in food waste generation, causing severe environmental and economic impacts. However, food waste (FW) can be converted into sustainable animal feed, reducing waste disposal and provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,667 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2015

The latest developments in natural soft drinks in the Romanian market signal significant changes in consumers’ perceptions of the sustainability concept. While the necessity of preserving natural resources and ensuring a decent level of healthiness s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,416 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2024

In recent years, floods have occurred frequently in urban and rural areas around the world, causing heavy casualties and property damage. In contrast, some traditional Chinese villages have never flooded. It is hypothesized that these villages, becau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,361 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2021

For several decades, many countries have favored irrigation as a means of regulating, diversifying, and increasing agricultural production to meet the growing domestic demand for food, and even to generate exportable surpluses. As with most Mediterra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,847 Views
23 Pages

Pathfinders for the Future? Indigenous Rights and Traditional Knowledge in Sweden

  • Åsa Nilsson Dahlström,
  • Johanna Dahlin and
  • Håkan Tunón

11 October 2021

Indigenous peoples have for the past decades increasingly argued that not only is their traditional knowledge to be recognized in the management of their traditional territories, but that Indigenous control and self-governance over territories and na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,888 Views
20 Pages

The energy consumption of farmers residing around nature reserves is an important factor that affects the coordinated development of nature reserves and the surrounding communities. The optimization of the energy consumption structure of farmers arou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,500 Views
14 Pages

Internal Prices and Optimal Exploitation of Natural Resources

  • Vitaly G. Il’ichev and
  • Dmitry B. Rokhlin

29 May 2022

Within the framework of traditional fishery management, we propose an interpretation of natural resource prices. It leads to an economic taxation mechanism based on internal prices and reduces a complex problem of optimal long-term exploitation to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,015 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2022

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is becoming more prominent in wildlife management decisions and policy making. The cooperation of TEK and Western science paradigms have been beneficial for conserving our natural resources and wildlife populati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,626 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2022

Indigenous communities have experienced a loss of access and ability to contribute to the management of natural resources due to removal from lands, marginalization, and conflicting knowledge systems. Currently, there is increasing momentum toward re...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,008 Views
4 Pages

6 February 2013

Sustainable water systems often comprise complex combinations of traditional and new system components that mimic natural processes. These green systems aim to protect public health and safety, and restore natural and human landscapes. Green infrastr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
960 Views
26 Pages

The automation of extracting targeted decision-support information is a key task for achieving intelligent agricultural management. Essentially, this involves structurally representing agricultural operations based on knowledge, unified modeling and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,499 Views
24 Pages

18 September 2023

Current environmental challenges invite us to deeply revise policies, governance models, and resource management toolkits towards a circular approach, in order to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requirements. In this framework, circular was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,513 Views
23 Pages

Optimizing Masonry Mortar: Experimental Insights into Physico-Mechanical Properties Using Recycled Aggregates and Natural Fibers

  • Daniel Ferrández,
  • Alicia Zaragoza-Benzal,
  • Rocío Pastor Lamberto,
  • Paulo Santos and
  • Jacek Michalak

17 July 2024

The European Green Deal establishes the efficient management of construction resources as one of its main lines of action. In this sense, the recovery of construction and demolition waste for its reincorporation into the manufacturing process of new...

  • Review
  • Open Access
305 Citations
44,647 Views
29 Pages

Intercropping—A Low Input Agricultural Strategy for Food and Environmental Security

  • Sagar Maitra,
  • Akbar Hossain,
  • Marian Brestic,
  • Milan Skalicky,
  • Peter Ondrisik,
  • Harun Gitari,
  • Koushik Brahmachari,
  • Tanmoy Shankar,
  • Preetha Bhadra and
  • Masina Sairam
  • + 5 authors

14 February 2021

Intensive agriculture is based on the use of high-energy inputs and quality planting materials with assured irrigation, but it has failed to assure agricultural sustainability because of creation of ecological imbalance and degradation of natural res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,151 Views
29 Pages

2 November 2024

Geodiversity and geoheritage represent an important resource for geotourism and subsequent economic development both in remote natural areas and in traditional, frequently visited recreational areas. Identification, assessment, and suitable managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,668 Views
33 Pages

7 March 2018

Nowadays, sensor networks are composed of a great number of tiny resource-constraint nodes, whose management is increasingly more complex. In fact, although collaborative or choreographic task execution schemes are which fit in the most perfect way w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,690 Views
13 Pages

13 May 2022

The tank cascade system, which emerged as early as the fifth century BC in Sri Lanka’s dry zone, has been portrayed as one of the oldest water management practices in the world. However, its important function as flood management has not yet be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
2,672 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2025

Algeria’s resource-dependent economy faces significant challenges in balancing hydrocarbon reliance with environmental sustainability, yet existing research largely overlooks the comprehensive load capacity factor (LCF) metric in favor of tradi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,253 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2022

Fishing activity in Greece remains important for the management of marine resources. Fishery co-management, involving various social groups and stakeholders, is considered necessary for marine ecological conservation. Environmental NGOs have acquired...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,038 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2022

Evaluating the quantitative status of groundwater has always represented an attractive method of modelling development for scientific research purposes and, at the same time, an essential planning tool for water managers. Today, in addition to the tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,557 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2019

While international instruments and a few state governments endorse the “free, prior and informed consent” of Indigenous peoples in decision-making about the water in their traditional territories, most state water governance regimes do n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,674 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2022

Szeklerland is a historical-ethnic region located on the eastern border of the Carpathian Basin, in the central region of Romania. In Szeklerland, thanks to its varied topography and a network of small settlements, landscape management is still carri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,246 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2022

The traditional production system is mainly concerned with economic growth. However, with growing pollution and the rapid depletion of natural resources, there is an urgent need to adopt environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) to prioritize the...

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