The concept of ecosystem services is increasingly important for measuring both tangible and
intangible benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems. Much research on ecosystem …

Background Rice field agroecosystems produce food for more than half of the world's
population and deliver important services supporting farmers' livelihoods. However …

Landscapes are essential to human life: they provide a multitude of material (food, water,
pollination) and nonmaterial (beauty, tranquility, recreation) values. Their importance is …

Participatory mapping of local land use as the basis for planning and decision-making has
become widespread around the globe. However, still relatively little is known about the …

Many indigenous people hold detailed ecological knowledge about their environment and
have developed complex classifications of ecosystem types in their own languages. These …

Sustainable development goals assume that basic notions, such as health, life, and water,
can be universally and easily expressed and understood across diverse communities and …

This paper reports the current ethnobotanical knowledge of the oleaginous plant Sacha
Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.) derived from 173 interviews conducted in the San Martín and …

This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional
knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to …

We examined how community–government interaction may promote or hinder the
conservation of biocultural diversity. Research was done with the extractive community of …

This contribution aims to lay the foundations for a field of research that considers the role of
place names both in the expression of the human–environment relationship and in the …