This chapter describes the current usage of citizen science to increase the current knowledge of exotic and invasive bird populations. Citizen science projects aimed at studying and tracking exotic birds are divided into two categories: those that are part of a broad-scale biodiversity collection...

The research themes in this volume have focused on impacts of climate change, vulnerability and resilience of ecosystems and communities to climate change. Other key sub-themes have been community access, control, and rights to climate information, importance of integration of indigenous and...

In this chapter, the critically important role that coordination and awareness can play in managing parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) is addressed. Of all the invaded countries, only Australia and South Africa have put in place well-developed national coordinated strategies for the...

This chapter focuses specifically on the negotiation process and the institutional context that surrounded the issuance of the KDTI decree. Based on both written and oral sources, it benefits from the experience of co-authors de Foresta and Fay, both of whom played an active role in the...

This book chapter discusses a variety of adaptations (definition and negotiation of a wider set of beliefs within cultural practice) and applications relative to human health and natural environments. It presents cultural adaptations such as folk biology, traditional ecological knowledge,...

This chapter discusses several challenges to public acceptability of new insect vector control technologies (such as transgenics and biological control), including the nature of incentives in research product development, historical injustices in low- and middle-income countries, and the...

This chapter discusses the principles and processes of the participatory learning and action-research approach to integrated rice management (PLARIRM) in Africa, as well as the application of PLAR-IRM in a rainfed lowland rice system in Madagascar. Prospects for the wider use of PLAR-IRM in Africa...

The partipatory process of tree domestication is described, including the consultative and participatory process of selecting the agroforestry trees that farmers would like to be domesticated as new crops. A list of these trees that farmers prefer are presented.

BRAC is an international development organization based in Bangladesh that is dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor. Empowerment can be viewed as a process of transformational change. Community participation is an empowering tool through which local communities can take action to...

The central focus of this chapter has been the involvement of people and communities in promoting health, and we agree with Taylor (2007) who pointed out that health promotion that is imposed on people is rarely effective, and needs to be done not to people, but with and by them. However, such...