Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere : RCC Perspectives 2012, no. 9: Why Do We Value Diversity? Biocultural Diversity in a Global Context: Mapping Biocultural and Economic Diversity … Everywhere

This article examines the practice of mapping biocultural diversity. The practice has been criticised for foregrounding conservation rather than self-determination, and preservation rather than cultural or ecological invention. While the maps succeed in depicting a global reality of biocultural dive...

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Main Author: St. Martin, Kevin
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2012
Subjects:
landscape transformation
population
environmental knowledge
capitalism
conservation
indigenous peoples
management
Norway
Northern Norway
sami
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6230
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6230/
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Summary:This article examines the practice of mapping biocultural diversity. The practice has been criticised for foregrounding conservation rather than self-determination, and preservation rather than cultural or ecological invention. While the maps succeed in depicting a global reality of biocultural diversity hotspots, they often relegate diversity to locations beyond the frontiers of capitalism and modernity. In response to this tendency, the article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.

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