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Sustainability science is learning from traditional knowledge

Sustainability science is increasingly drawing on traditional knowledge. Especially in the field of forest and food management there is much to learn from rural communities worldwide which practice more holistic methods in working with natural resources. Western science can learn from traditional knowledge in the way that it usually neglects the consequences of the actions it recommends.

 

United States Department of Agriculture

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