Investigating local knowledge new directions, new approaches
"This book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments, devising mechanisms to conserve and sustain their natural resources, and establi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Aldershot
Ashgate
2004
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments, devising mechanisms to conserve and sustain their natural resources, and establishing community-based organizations that serve as forums for identifying problems and dealing with them through local-level experimentation, innovation, and exchange of information with other societies. These studies show that development activities that work with and through local knowledge and organizations have several important advantages over projects that operate outside them. Local knowledge informs grassroots decision-making, much of which takes place through indigenous organizations and associations at the community level as people seek to identify and determine solutions to their problems."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 237 p. ill. |
| ISBN: | 075463230X 0-7546-3230-X |