ISSN:
1573-2991
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
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Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
Notes:
Abstract Increasingly, the urgency of reorienting conventional development paradigms to take into account indigenous institutions and their ecological knowledge base is being recognized in both developed and developing countries. Based on a field research in Ghana, this paper discusses the nature and operation of indigenous economic institutions, their ecological knowledge, norms, beliefs, and practices pertaining to sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental management. The institutions provide a framework of ideas, guiding principles, and practices that could serve as a foundation for endogenous options and broad-based efforts to solving resource and environmental management problems in the developing world. The paper also discusses limitations of indigenous ecological knowledge and practices.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026498611175
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