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Relevance of traditional knowledge in disaster prediction, management and climate change - Special issue - Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

This special issue of the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge has a focus on the importance of traditional knowledge in disaster prediction, forecasting, management and climate change and includes fourteen papers on studies from India. The papers include:Read More

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Content Type: Case Studies, Research
Category: Adi Community, Ardu, Arid Region, Biodiversity, Bioindicators, Cair, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Mitigation, Droughts, Ecosystem, Ethnomedicine, Fisheries, Forecasting, Grassroot, Grassroot Preservation, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS), Indigenous People, Indigenous Tribes, Jasmine, LIvelihoods, Lepcha Community, Meitei Community, Phenology, Poverty, Prediction, Presage Biology, Rainfall, Tribals, Weather
Author: Varun Joshi, Vanya Jha, Subhash Chand, S N Sethi, S N Bhowmik, Sandeep Acharya, Ranjay K Singh, P Dey, P C Trivedi, P C Sharma, Munmun Rai, M S Rawat, M Chinlampianga, Love K Singh, K Kumar, J S Mann, J K Sundaray, H S Jat, H Birkumar Singh, Dheeraj Singh, C B Pandey, Aparna Pareek, A Panigrahi, Anjali Singh, Anil K Gupta, A K Sharma, A K Sarkar, A K Panda, Ajeya Jha
Source: Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
Location / Time: Arunachal Pradesh, Bundelkhand, India, Jharkhand, Manipur, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, 2011
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

The relevance of traditional knowledge for health, well being and sustainable development - Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

This paper published in the journal Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge is an attempt to discuss the traditional knowledge of elderly people, their role and highlights many areas where it can be useful for elderly themselves. At present, the loss of biological diversity and erosion of traditional knowledge systems (TKS) are issues of great concern. Most of these knowledge systems are unique and are often known only to a few individuals or communities. This traditional knowledge includes mental inventories of local biological resources, animal breeds, local plants and crop and tree species. Read More

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Content Type: Case Studies, Research
Category: Customs, Ecosystems, Elderly, Environment, Ethnopharmacology, Folk, Health, Indigenous Communities, Livelihood, Primary Healthcare, Soils, Sustainability, Technology, Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS), Traditions, Water Management, Weather Forecasting
Author: V C Goyal, Usha Dixit
Source: Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
Location / Time: India, 2011
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Damming North East India - Juggernaut of hydropower projects threatens social and environmental security of region

subansiri This report by Kalpavriksh, Aaranyak and ActionAid India deals with the large dams’ juggernaut, which happens to be the biggest ‘development’ intervention in this ecologically and geologically fragile, seismically active and culturally sensitive region in the coming days. With the Northeast identified as India’s ‘future powerhouse’ and at least 168 large hydroelectric projects set to majorly alter the riverscape, large dams are emerging as a major issue of conflict in the region.

Although the current scale of dam-related developments far outstrips anything which took place in the past, the region has been no stranger to dam-related conflicts. For example, the Kaptai dam, built in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the 1960s, submerged the traditional homelands of the Hajong and Chakma indigenous communities, and forced them to migrate into parts of Northeast India.Read More

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Loktak, MN, India
Latitude: 24.579037, Longitude: 93.742422

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Content Type: Research
Category: Dam Induced Floods, Dams, Displacement, Hydroelectric Projects, Hydropower Development, Indigenous Communities, Large Dams, Mega Dams, Rehabilitation, Resettlement, Rivers, Riverscape, Water Bodies, Water Conflict, Wetland Ecology
Associated People / Organizations: Anuradha Arjunwadkar, Ashish Fernandes, Girin Chetia, Gita Bharali, Himanshu Thakkar, Linda Chhakchhuak, Manju Menon, Sharmila Deo, Shripad Dharmadhikary, Sujatha Padmanabhan
Author: Partha J Das, Neeraj Vagholikar, Kalpavriksh, ActionAid, Aaranyak
Source: Aaranyak, Partha J Das
Location / Time: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh, Barak, Chittagong, Chujachen, Doyang, Gumti, India, Jorethang Loop, Kameng, Kaptai, Karbi Langpi, Khangdong, Kopili, Kyrdamkulai, Loktak, Lower Borpani, Lower Subansiri, Manipur, Meghalaya, Myndtu, Nagaland, New Umtru, North East India, Pagladiya, Pare, Raima, Ranganadi, Rangit, Sikkim, Subansiri, Teesta, Tipaimukh, Tripura, Umiam, Umtru, 2010
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

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