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Bioscience ; 74(1): 25-43, 2024 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38313563

ABSTRACT

In this article, we present results from a literature review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values of nature conducted for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as part of the Methodological Assessment of the Diverse Values and Valuations of Nature. We identify the most frequently recurring meanings in the heterogeneous use of different value types and their association with worldviews and other key concepts. From frequent uses, we determine a core meaning for each value type, which is sufficiently inclusive to serve as an umbrella over different understandings in the literature and specific enough to help highlight its difference from the other types of values. Finally, we discuss convergences, overlapping areas, and fuzzy boundaries between different value types to facilitate dialogue, reduce misunderstandings, and improve the methods for valuation of nature's contributions to people, including ecosystem services, to inform policy and direct future research.

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J Ethnobiol Ethnomed ; 9: 55, 2013 Aug 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23915266

ABSTRACT

This brief essay, which represents the third editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field", captures a few memories of the author's first fieldwork in the Venezuelan rainforest. It is a collage of objects, subjects, feelings, spaces, and events that pendulate in spheres of meaning straddling between the author's identities as both a student and a woman. The author's evocations of fifteen years ago are diluted in lasting reflections about what could be ethnoecology embraced by spaces of interactions and associations between organisms and their surroundings.


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Ethnobotany , Trees , Ecosystem , Female , Humans , Venezuela
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Interciencia ; 27(1): 9-20, ene. 2002. mapas, tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-333995

ABSTRACT

La hipótesis de que vastas porciones del Amazonas son de origen antropogénico y no ecosistemas prístinos ha ganado adeptos recientemente, aunque existen pocos casos de estudio que la sustenten. Este trabajo explora empíricamente esta hipótesis centrándose en aspectos controversiales acerca de la contribución de los forrajeros humanos en la modificación substancial del paisaje. Se documentan las conductas de alteración ecológica de los Hotï de la Sierra Maigualida, Amazonas venezolano, quienes tradicionalmente han ocupado la región selvática interfluvial. Los Hotï son indígenas fundamentalmente forrajeros, practicantes de recolección, caza, pesca, y en menor grado agricultura incipiente, están poco aculturados y han sido contactados recientemente. Se describen cinco de sus conductas alteradoras: cosecha y dispersión de frutos arbóreos, explotación y manipulación de palmas, manejo de gusanos de seje, cultivo de claros naturales y extracción de miel. Un análisis de estas alteraciones, y en virtud de los largos períodos de ocupación que los Hotï han ocupado esta región, permite inferir que sus conductas han tenido un impacto considerable en la composición, diversidad y estructura de los bosques de Maigualida. Tales conclusiones tienen implicaciones en los planes de conservación biológica al mostrar que las actividades de subsistencia de los indígenas forrajeros contribuyen a la creación y mantenimiento dinámico de la diversidad en los ecosistemas amazónicos


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Humans , Amazonian Ecosystem , Anthropology, Cultural , Ethnicity/classification , Ethnicity/education , Human Ecology , Indium , Residence Characteristics , Trees , Science , Venezuela
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