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between the “two cultures” of conservation- ists and social scientists concerning environmental issues. On the one hand, Leopold ...

and analyzing the overlaps. Whether by looking at the coincidence of “megadiverse countries” for both species and language richn ...

Durban Accord issued at the 2003 World Parks Congress celebrated “the miracle of the diversity of nature and of cultures that po ...

community members at large.^36 The aim of this initiative is to elaborate a general education curricu- lum based on Rarámuri as ...

ronment, and that language is the key vehi- cle for conveying the aboriginal ethic of car- ing for the land. The Wanniyalaeto (V ...

History, cculture aand cconservation Notes 1 DiSilvestro, 1993; Mittermeier et al., 1998; Olson and Dinerstein, 1998. 2 Terborgh ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity 7 For reviews, see: Hyndman, 1994; Orlove and Brush, 1996; Wilshusen et al ...

New York Botanical Garden Press, 9-35, Bronx, NY, 2004. Maffi, L., T. Skutnabb-Kangas and J. Andrianarivo, “Linguistic diversity ...

Conservation aas ccultural aand ppolitical ppractice TThe study of biocultural diversity involves a search for patterns across l ...

endangered species, density of endangered languages, energy budgets for countries, roads ands connectivity, and many more. Armed ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ing biological diversity and increasing cultur- al di ...

History, cculture aand cconservation While the viewer can undoubtedly see other patterns emerge in Figure 1, we would like to ca ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity The IIBCD— aa mmeasure oof tthe wworld’s bbiocultural ddiversity David HHa ...

History, cculture aand cconservation the number of bird and mammal species (combined) and the number of plant species as a measu ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity Table 1. Unadjusted language diversity index (LD-RICH) no. of languages (L ...

History, cculture aand cconservation *artificial number of languages chosen to create a maximum value higher than the world tota ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity y=0.3261x/0.8557 R^2 =0.7101 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 3 2 1 0 ...

History, cculture aand cconservation Detailed discussion of the methods is includ- ed in the source document.^5 For BCD-AREA, co ...

Understanding aand mmeasuring bbiocultural ddiversity Table 5. IBCD-AREA: ten highest-ranking countries Country or Territory Are ...

Moreover, by combining the results of BCD- RICH, BCD-AREA, and BCD-POP, we identi- fied three “core regions” of global biocultur ...