Ethnoecology
The ethnoecology is a Department of Anthropology (Ethnology) and tested systems of environmental knowledge, environmental assessment and environmental use in ethnic groups and indigenous peoples (indigenous knowledge systems) .
Development and ethno-ecological approach
The basic ideas of the ethno-ecological approach go back to American anthropologists like Roy Rappaport . It is a specification of research on the human-environment relationship, as it is at home in geography, landscape ecology and environmental science as well as other disciplines. In this respect, ethnobotany (the science of the study of plants ( botany ) in relation to their use by humans) is a partial aspect of ethnoecology. In it, synecological approaches are often pursued on larger spatial scales in order to identify usage systems.
A large area of research and application of ethno-ecological work has resulted from a partial aspect of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In 1992, the mechanism of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS, in German "Access to genetic resources and fair benefit sharing") was introduced. In addition to access to genetic resources, ABS is about the fair compensation of the advantages that result from the use of these resources. ABS, like other provisions of the CBD, serves to reconcile the use of natural resources by humans with the conservation of biological diversity and is often based on research that includes ethno-ecological approaches.
Critics accuse the discipline of focusing on “pre-industrial societies” in less developed parts of the world.
research
In many interdisciplinary projects in which land use is examined in different contexts, social science contexts are also surveyed. Depending on the research topic, ethno-ecological approaches come into play here: if there is a connection between the use (influence) of an ecosystem and special ethnic groups and their traditions and cultural techniques.
See also
literature
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Freiraum und Vegetation (Ed.): Ruderalvegetation. Ecology and ethnoecology, aesthetics and "protection". Kassel 1998.
Web links
- David Casagrande: Ethnoecology. In: The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE). Environmental Information Coalition (EIC), 2012, accessed June 11, 2018 (English, definition).
Individual evidence
- ^ Willibald Haffner: On the understanding of the environment in traditional societies: ethnobotanical and ethno-ecological research approaches. ( Memento from July 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Lecture, Institute for Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, June 21, 2001.