Local and Indigenious Knowledge in Small Islands
Description
Description
Different knowledge systems at the UNESCO–ICSU (International Council for Science) World Conference on Science (Budapest, June 1999) contributed to the launching in 2002 of an intersectoral project on Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Global Society (LINKS). The LINKS project focuses on the interface between local and indigenous knowledge and the Millennium Development Goals of poverty eradication and environmental sustainability, stressing the importance of long-tested traditional knowledge systems that can enable communities to survive and sustain themselves in a changing world while maintaining environmental integrity.
Among the early starting LINKS activities relating to small islands are those on indigenous peoples and protected areas in the Surin islands of Thailand, on village-based marine resource management in Vanuatu and on an environmental encyclopedia of the Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands.
In Vanuatu, a pilot scheme is underway for incorporating traditional knowledge in primary and secondary school curricula.
Among the early starting LINKS activities relating to small islands are those on indigenous peoples and protected areas in the Surin islands of Thailand, on village-based marine resource management in Vanuatu and on an environmental encyclopedia of the Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands.
In Vanuatu, a pilot scheme is underway for incorporating traditional knowledge in primary and secondary school curricula.
Expected Impact
Research on traditional resource use strategies and practices in land and water (including marine) ecosystems, initiatives to nurture new kinds of partnerships between indigenous peoples and multi-use protected areas, cultural dimensions of traditional knowledge, relationships between cultural diversity and biological diversity, ethnobotany and the equitable and sustainable use of plant resources, and the role of traditional knowledge in the contemporary world.
Partners
UNESCO, Oringally Thailand, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands now expanded
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Timeline
01 January 1970 (start date)
01 January 1970 (date of completion)
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Geographical coverage
Thailand, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands
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Contact Information
Douglas Nakashima, Chief, Section for Small Islands and Indigenous Knowledge