A crash course in changing the world.
Traditional, low-cost approaches to protecting and sustainably utilizing the following four natural resource management strategies:
maintenance of biological diversity.
biological and crop pest control strategies
recycling and fixation of soil nutrients
strategies to conserve soil and water
Comparison |
Indigenous knowledge |
Western scientific knowledge |
Relationship |
Subordinate |
Dominant |
Dominant mode of thinking |
Intuitive (holistic) |
Analytical (reductionist) |
Communication |
Oral (storytelling, subjective experiential) |
Literate/didactic (academic, objective, positivist) |
Data creation |
Slow/inconclusive |
Fast/selective |
Prediction |
Short-term cycles (recognize the onset of long-term cycles) |
Short-term linear (poor long-term analysis) |
Explanation |
Spiritual (the inexplicable) |
Scientific inquiry (hypothesis, laws) |
Biological classification |
Ecological (inconclusive, internally differentiating) |
Genetic and hierarchical (differentiating) tropical uplands, semi-arid zone, and arid zone). |
(Source: http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-84408-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html)
- Ryan Wei -
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