Canada is a large nation with forested ecosystems that occupy over 60% of the national land base, and knowledge of the patterns of Canada's land cover is important to proper environmental management of this vast resource.
Their world view is tied up in their land, and their knowledge is linked to that.
We propose a learning-centered participatory approach that links land management assessment and knowledge exchange and integrates science-based data and stakeholder perspectives on both biophysical and socio-economic attributes.
Indigenous communities have also undertaken innovative initiatives for sustainable development by producing their own maps detailing customary land use, occupancy and knowledge of natural resource management.
Tibetan nomads are the expert custodians of their lands and their traditional knowledge must be incorporated into climate mitigation and adaptation practices.
The pathways by which NRM influences these determinants are mediated by distal factors such as changes in land conditions, farmer skills and knowledge and resources accessible to farmers.
It's access to markets and finance, land tenure security, knowledge and technology, and policies that favour small farms and make it easier for them to do business.
D1 OBITUARIES A37 Kingsbury Browne A prominent Boston tax lawyer and outdoorsman whose initiative and knowledge of land trusts spared large and small swaths of the American landscape from headlong development, he was 82.
And now that Mr. Trump has elevated ignorance to the highest office in the land, the bar for curiosity and knowledge, and thoughtful discourse and reflection, and research and consultation, has dropped straight to the floor.
In the field case studies, resistivity images are compared against subsurface structure defined from borings, GPR surveys, and knowledge of prior land use.
