Behind the Myth: Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems in Natural Resource Conservation in North East Ghana

This study intended to measure prospective science teachers' scientific literacy through a conservation course on a natural resource topic. The natural source as the research object was golobe, an endemic plant in Maluku which has been consumed as the traditional medicine by the local community, which was studied for its chemical properties. Golobe is believed to have the properties to cure diseases. The lab testing revealed that golobe contains alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, steroids, polyphenols, antioxidants and antibacterial properties. The scientific knowledge based on the lab report was reconstructed using the Science Integrated Learning (SIL) model. The obtained laboratory test results were matched up with the indigenous knowledge of the golobe. The indigenous knowledge of local community on golobe was converted to be the scientific knowledge. Then, the result of reconstruction was applied as the basis of Conservation Education course material development. The research target included prospective science teachers joining the Conservation Education course. The assessed scientific literacy consisted of (1) knowing scientific questions; (2) exploring; (3) identifying scientific evidence; (4) laboratory work; (5) drawing up conclusions; (6) communicating, and (7) demonstrating. Prospective teachers have owned the seven components of scientific literacy after studying natural resource conservation materials. The research concluded that the use of the knowledge reconstruction of Golobe in the North Loloda Tribe, North Maluku, Halmahera Archipelago has an impact on the development of prospective teachers’ scientific literacy.

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A SYSTEM DESIGN OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.28 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 273-282

Author(s):

Thomas Barlow ◽

Mandappa Biddanda ◽

Samarth Mendke ◽

Emmanuel Miyingo ◽

Anabel Sicko ◽

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Keyword(s):

Natural Resource ◽

Systems Approach ◽

System Optimization ◽

Resource Conservation ◽

System Level ◽

Conservation And Development ◽

Natural Resource Conservation ◽

Agricultural Community ◽

System Design Optimization ◽

System Configurations

AbstractIntegrated Natural Resource Conservation and Development (INRCD) Projects are efforts at worldwide locations to promote economic development of local communities consistent with conservation of natural resources. This umbrella term includes Integration Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) introduced by the World Wide Fund to combine social development and conservation s through the use of socio-economic investments, and the Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) research and development efforts that have employed a systems approach for quantitative modeling and optimization. In the spirit of the INRCD framework, we describe the development of a system-level agriculture and energy model comprising engineering and economic models for crop, irrigation, and energy subsystem designs for a community in Central Uganda. The model architecture is modular allowing modifications for different system configurations and project locations. We include some initial results and discuss next steps for system optimization, refining model assumptions, and modeling community social benefits as drivers of such projects.

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Natural Resources, Sustainability, and Intergenerational Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.24 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Global Justice ◽

Resource Conservation ◽

Natural Resource Conservation ◽

The Future ◽

Intergenerational Ethics

This chapter examines a variety of views about the nature of society’s putative duty to conserve natural resources for the future, with a focus on the contested idea of sustainability. This chapter examines competing conceptions of sustainability and their implications for natural resource conservation across generations. Sustainability is a very popular concept, but there are many different positions on what might be called the “sustainability of what?” question. The chapter examines a number of competing views and shows how controversy here has informed the debate between so-called weak and strong conceptions of sustainability. It concludes with an examination of the politics of sustainability, and in particular the connections and possible tensions between goals of natural resource conservation and of global justice.

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The Regulation of Combination

State Politics & Policy Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1532440016674235 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 105-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

JoyAnna S. Hopper

Keyword(s):

Environmental Protection ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Resource Conservation ◽

Economic Consequences ◽

Natural Resource Conservation ◽

Design Choice ◽

Control Regulation ◽

And Control ◽

Agency Design ◽

Environmental Agency

In 15 American states, environmental protection agencies perform both pollution-control and natural resource conservation functions. In this study, I examine how this combination of functions affects the regulatory style embraced by these agencies. I find, through interviews with environmental agency workers and empirical analyses using enforcement data from 2010 to 2014, that the cooperation and flexibility with industry inherent to natural resource conservation efforts is a fundamental part of the regulatory process within these combined agencies. Great efforts are made to garner voluntary or negotiated compliance without the possible economic consequences of punitive actions. Enforcements are less frequent and less severe. The effect of this agency design choice is powerful, maintaining its effect even when controlling for political, ideological, and economical pressures. In a time where environmental protection agencies are increasingly interested in incorporating management-based regulation and voluntary compliance to supplement command and control regulation, it is more important than ever to understand the regulation that emerges from this combination.

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