Integrating sacred knowledge for conservation: Cultures and landscapes in southwest China
Xu, JC; Ma, ET; Tashi, D; Fu, YS; Lu, Z; Melick, D
2005-12-01
发表期刊ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
卷号10期号:2页码:7
摘要China is undergoing economic growth and expansion to a free market economy at a scale and pace that are unprecedented in human history. This is placing great pressure on the country's environment and cultural diversity. This paper examines a number of case histories in China, focusing on the culturally varied and ecologically diverse southwest region of the country. We show how developments in recent Chinese history have devalued and in some cases eliminated indigenous knowledge and practices in the quest to strengthen the centralized state. Despite these changes, more than 30 ethnic minorities live in southwest China. For generations these peoples have maintained landscapes through traditional land use and cultural practices. This indigenous knowledge places a high value on protecting forests, landscapes, and water catchments while preserving biodiversity. These values are maintained through religious beliefs, hunting taboos, and the protection of sacred sites. We advocate a conservation policy for China that includes the indigenous knowledge and values needed to maintain the environment and the traditional cultures themselves. There are seminal signs that the government is beginning to support indigenous cultures in China. The Organic Law of 1998 granted villages the legal right to self-government and gave indigenous communities greater responsibility for land and resource use. Traditional and indigenous cultural products have also developed a market and an economic value within a growing tourism industry. In many cases, however, indigenous people remain isolated from major land-use and conservation decisions that are the result of centrally planned policy. Meanwhile, frequent oscillations in forest policy and land tenure insecurity since the 1950s have led to the erosion of many local institutions and the loss of indigenous knowledge. We suggest that the long-term viability of the environment requires an interactive approach that involves local people as well as governments in the creation of environmental policy. We also suggest that enlightened self-interest can help economic development coexist with the needs of traditional cultures.
关键词Biodiversity Economic Development Environmental Degradation Ethnic Minorities Indigenous Knowledge Sacred Knowledge China
收录类别SCI ; SSCI
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000234561400012
引用统计
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/24791
专题资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
作者单位Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714
Xu, JC,Ma, ET,Tashi, D,et al. Integrating sacred knowledge for conservation: Cultures and landscapes in southwest China[J]. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY,2005,10(2):7.
APA Xu, JC,Ma, ET,Tashi, D,Fu, YS,Lu, Z,&Melick, D.(2005).Integrating sacred knowledge for conservation: Cultures and landscapes in southwest China.ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY,10(2),7.
MLA Xu, JC,et al."Integrating sacred knowledge for conservation: Cultures and landscapes in southwest China".ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 10.2(2005):7.
条目包含的文件 下载所有文件
文件名称/大小 文献类型 版本类型 开放类型 使用许可
Xu_ES-2005-1413.pdf(666KB)期刊论文作者接受稿开放获取CC BY-NC-SA浏览 下载
个性服务
推荐该条目
保存到收藏夹
查看访问统计
导出为Endnote文件
谷歌学术
谷歌学术中相似的文章
[Xu, JC]的文章
[Ma, ET]的文章
[Tashi, D]的文章
百度学术
百度学术中相似的文章
[Xu, JC]的文章
[Ma, ET]的文章
[Tashi, D]的文章
必应学术
必应学术中相似的文章
[Xu, JC]的文章
[Ma, ET]的文章
[Tashi, D]的文章
相关权益政策
暂无数据
收藏/分享
文件名: Xu_ES-2005-1413.pdf
格式: Adobe PDF
所有评论 (0)
暂无评论
 

除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。