The evolution and spread of PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal or Participatory Reflection Action) CLTS (Community‐Led Total Sanitation) have involved activities sharing co‐generating knowledge which can loosely be considered a form Action Learning. Key for this been sequences participatory workshops evolved as creative collective experiences fed by feeding into wider networking dissemination. ...

Biocultural heritage preservation relies on ethnobotanical knowledge and the paleoethnobotanical data used in (re)constructing histories of human–biota interactions. heritage, defined as practices Indigenous local peoples their biological relatives, is often guarded information, meant for specific audiences withheld from other social circles. As such, these forms must also be included ongoing s...

This article discusses the role of global competency framework within library and information studies professional education, explores relevant literature, places in context equity, diversity, inclusion as well other areas field. The author posits that knowledges, skills, attitudes contribute through international mindedness to equity-centered education studies.

Resource sustainability requires recognising and developing pathways to integrate local Indigenous knowledges alongside conservation sciences within management practices governance. However, knowledge never occurs in a vacuum, is always mediated by the beliefs, values, or stances towards its possession use particular contexts. Focusing on unprecedented renewal of traditional practice natural re...

The interrelationship between rural, rurality and social innovation still remains underexplored even though there has been considerable work within the individual discourses of rural studies. This paper aims at broadening scope this by exploring nuanced dynamics complexities lifeworld experiences knowledges actors that shape understanding innovation. At core analysis lies two key ideas includin...

This article presents a brief historical overview of the formation medical informatics as an important part system knowledge covering wide range applied tasks. Medical is same result evolution planned philosophy, which has its roots in history information technology and medicine. The process historical, theoretical development continues, so any work space can only be considered conditional repo...

This paper examines African epistemologies of the environment as a place-based perspective that regards nature having its inherent value, personhood, and agency. It presents way relating with or living in becoming one beyond discourse Anthropocene environmental change. In particular, we will take epistemological perspectives from Southern Eastern Africa, notions Ubuntu Tabot, to reflect on how ...

Since its discovery, it had been generally considered that blood type was hereditarily neutral characteristics free from natural selection. Thereafter many observations were reported on the correlations between blood types and hemolytic diseases in newborn or erythroblastosis foetalis and differential survival in intrauterine life such as rate of fertility and of miscarriage and in extra-uterin...