Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development (WB): (introduction...)

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development (WB)

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Environmentally sustainable development series

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Summary of the conference proceedings

Introduction

Traditional knowledge and cultural survival

Traditional knowledge, land, and the environment

Traditional knowledge and agricultural sustainability

Contributions of traditional medicine to health

Traditional institutions and participation

Government policies and traditional knowledge

Building a new partnership

Conclusion

Post-conference discussion

Traditional knowledge and sustainable development: a conversation

Appendixes

Appendix 1 - Program

Appendix 2 - Participants

Appendix 3 - Indigenous knowledge resource centers

Appendix 4 - Operational directive (OD) 4.20: Indigenous peoples

Appendix 5 - Selected bibliography

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Shelton H. Davis
Katrina Ebbe
Editors

Alicia Hetzner, Editorial Consultant

Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by the World Bank Environment Department and the World Bank Task Force on the International Year of the World's Indigenous People held at The World Bank
Washington, D.C.
September 27-28, 1993

Environmentally Sustainable Development Proceedings Series No. 4 The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

© 1995 The International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK
1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A.

First printing June 1995

This report has been prepared by the staff of the World Bank. The judgments expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors or the governments they represent.

Cover photograph by Frederik J. Van Bolhuis. A local leader in the Warwan Valley, Zanskar, India.

Shelton H. Davis is Principal Sociologist with the Environment Department of the World Bank; Katrinka Ebbe is a consultant to the same department.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

United Nations International Year of the World's Indigenous Peoples' Conference (1993: World Bank)

Traditional knowledge and sustainable development: proceedings of a conference sponsored by the World Bank's Environment Department and the World Bank Task Force on the International Year of the World's Indigenous People held at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., September 27-28, 1993 / Shelton H. Davis, Katrinka Ebbe, editors; Alicia Hetzner, editorial consultant.

p. cm - (Environmentally sustainable development proceedings series; no. 4)

Includes bibliographical references (p.).

ISBN 0-8213-3188-4

1. Sustainable development - Congresses.
2. Indigenous peoples - Congresses.
I. Davis, Shelton H.
II. Ebbe, Katrinka, 1947
III. Hetzner, Alicia.
IV. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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VI. Series. HC79.E5U465 1993 338.9 - dc20 94-48104 CIP