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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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Regional Efforts, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Territories

This lecture examines how protected areas and Indigenous Territories are, or should be, connected at the landscape scale, across national borders, rivers, and other modern-day boundaries, to create…

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Clandestine Economies in the Amazon

This lecture examines how Protected Areas (PAs) and Indigenous Territories (ITs) work as cornerstones for conservation in the Amazon. A network of more than 6,000 ITs and PAs across eight countries…

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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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The Slave Trade and the Amazon: Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Communities

This lecture presents how the search for gold and trade of other key commodities motivated the enslavement of Amazonian populations, both Indigenous and of African descent. It highlights the presence…

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Impacts of European Colonization on Amazonian Populations (1492-19th century)

This lecture highlights how the arrival of Europeans, especially Portuguese and Spanish, led to violence, diseases, religious domination, enslavement, dispossession, and ultimately to a demographic…

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Indigenous Peoples before European Colonization

Indigenous peoples possess a wide array of knowledge, traditions, and cultures, which have played a crucial role in the shaping, conservation, and sustainable management of Amazonian ecosystems for…

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EbA and Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous and Local Knowledge

This video is the third of four mandatory insight unit videos which provide a deep dive into cross-cutting topics of EbA. In this video, participants learn about traditional knowledge and Indigenous…

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EbA Governance

This video is the first of four mandatory insight unit videos which provide a deep dive into cross-cutting topics of EbA. In this video, participants learn about governance and how to advance a…

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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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Conversation with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "a Nation of Immigrants"

This meeting of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs took place on August 26, 2021. Prof. Sachs met with renowned historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss her newest book Not "a Nation of…

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Inequality and indigenous experience

This lecture looks at the relationship between wealth, poverty, and inequality, by focusing on the experience of indigenous people. Two points are made. The first is that indigenous people show how…

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Understanding Poverty and Inequality - Trailer

This course will present an overview of the definitions, scale, and scope of different forms of poverty and inequality across the world. It will examine links between poverty, inequality, and…

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Inclusive action: Youth

This video is the second video of unit 4 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…

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Inclusive action: Importance of youth, communities and indigenous people for Nature-based Solutions

This video is the first video of unit 4 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…

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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic approach, looking at all dimensions of…

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