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Save the rainforest! NGOs and grassroots organisations in the dialectics of Brazilian Amazonia
International Social Science Journal - Tập 55 Số 178 - Trang 583-591 - 2003
Luiz C. A. Barbosa
The paper argues that NGOs and grassroots organizations have had a positive impact on efforts to preserve the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. By acting alone or by forging alliances with international NGOs they have impacted both environmental legislation and actual enforcement. In a world economy driven by development and the profit motive, these “guardians of the forest” play a key role in the future survival of Amazonia. They challenge traditional notions of clearing forest for the sake of development. The paper uses the cases of Indian grassroots organisations and Greenpeace as illustrations.
Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics
International Social Science Journal - Tập 51 Số 159 - Trang 89-101 - 1999
Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink
The intersection of scientific and indigenous ecological knowledge in coastal Melanesia: implications for contemporary marine resource management<sup>*</sup>
International Social Science Journal - Tập 58 Số 187 - Trang 129-137 - 2006
Simon Foale
Fundamental differences in the worldviews of western marine scientists and coastal Melanesian fishers have resulted in very different conclusions being drawn from similar sets of observations. The same inductive logic may lead both scientists and indigenous fishers to conclude that, say, square‐tail trout aggregate at a certain phase of the moon in a certain reef passage, but different assumptions derived from disparate worldviews may lead to very different conclusions about why the fish are there. In some cases these differences have significant implications for the way marine resources are (or are not) exploited and managed. Here I analyse examples of what I call empirical gaps in both scientific and indigenous knowledge concerning the biology and ecology of fished organisms that in some cases have led to the poor management of stocks of these species. I argue that scientific education can complement indigenous knowledge systems and thus lead to improved resource management, despite some claims that scientific and indigenous knowledge systems are incommensurable.
Uses and abuses of the concept of governance
International Social Science Journal - Tập 50 Số 155 - Trang 105-113 - 1998
Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
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