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Intercultural Education in the Amazon

Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) is essential to conservation and sustainable development efforts across the Amazon, although its role is only recently gaining global recognition. This lecture…

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Principles and Values for a Living Amazon

This lecture explores the core principles and values essential for sustainable development in the Amazon. It emphasizes the importance of conserving the Amazon’s standing forest and flowing…

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Interconnections between Amazonian Peoples and Ecosystems

This lecture will argue that Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) play a critical role in the sustainable use and conservation of Amazonian biodiversity and ecosystems. Indigenous peoples…

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Who’s Today’s Amazonian Population?

This lecture examines current Amazonian populations, highlighting that the Amazon today is home to more than 47 million people, 60% of which live in urban areas. There are nearly 2.2 million…

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History & Contributions of Afro-Descendant Communities in the Amazon

This lecture examines the history and lasting contributions of Afro-descendant communities in the Amazon region. Learn how enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas as part of the Columbian…

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Conversation with Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Jessica Rawson, one of the world’s most eminent scholars of China, as they discuss Rawson’s book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. Listen in to learn…

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EbA and local/traditional/Indigenous knowledge

This video is the fourth of five videos which highlight cross-cutting topics that should be included in all EbA projects. In this video, participants learn about the topic of traditional knowledge…

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Hinablon Sa Cebu: A Community Extension Project of Cebu Technological University

From a research endeavour in 2013 to a Viable Demonstration Project at present, Cebu Technological University's mission of reviving a once dying cultural tradition and economic activity for the…

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Intangible cultural heritage, natural disasters and climate change

This chapter discusses how the knowledge and practices related to living heritage can contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and enhancing environmental…

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Intangible cultural heritage and education

The contribution of living heritage to quality education and lifelong learning is addressed in this chapter. Learners explore why the transmission of intangible cultural heritage in itself is a form…

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Intangible cultural heritage and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This chapter discusses the interdependence between the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development. The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural…

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Dynamic gender roles - dynamic living heritage

This chapter explores the dynamic nature of gender and intangible cultural heritage. It shows that the practice of intangible cultural heritage involves, in many cases, gender-specific roles, which…

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Gender-responsive approaches to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

This chapter focuses on building the knowledge required to apply a gender-responsive approach to designing and implementing measures for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. It begins by…

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Safeguarding measures

In this chapter, Prof. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto explains what safeguarding measures are. He discusses the difference between general safeguarding measures, which create favorable general conditions,…

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Ethics in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

This chapter introduces the ethical principles for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, and how they relate to the ethical issues encountered in safeguarding. Common ethical issues are raised,…

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Transmission and safeguarding

This chapter discusses the idea of safeguarding as ‘measures aimed at ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage.’ Learners explore the concept of ‘viability’…

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