“Preservation [...] is what we do to berries in jam jars and salmon in cans. [...] Books and recordings can preserve languages, but only people and communities can keep them alive.”
by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, Tlingit (Alaska) oral historians

Publications

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Key Books and Publications:

  • Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity Con­ser­va­tion: A Global Source­book bookPub­li­ca­tion: Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity Con­ser­va­tion: A Global Source­book. Edited by Luisa Maffi and Ellen Wood­ley, Earth­scan 2010. The mate­r­ial we present in this vol­ume is the out­come of a project car­ried out over sev­eral years by Ter­ralin­gua. In the course of this project, we con­ducted a world­wide sur­vey to iden­tify a rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple of projects that take an inte­gra­tive approach to sus­tain­ing cul­tures and bio­di­ver­sity. The 45 projects we selected are ones that rec­og­nize the fun­da­men­tal link between local lan­guages, eco­log­i­cal knowl­edge, cul­tural prac­tices, and bio­di­ver­sity, and that apply this recog­ni­tion to the design of sus­tain­able solu­tions to envi­ron­men­tal and social problems.
  • Pol­icy Mat­ters: Issue 13 PM_13_coverPub­li­ca­tion: His­tory, Cul­ture, and Con­ser­va­tion, Pol­icy Mat­ters 13 spe­cial issue, G. Borrini-Feyerabend, K. Mac­Don­ald, and L. Maffi (eds.). “We are deal­ing with com­plex and inter­linked bio­cul­tural phe­nom­ena, and the time is ripe to under­stand them bet­ter and apply that under­stand­ing in the prac­tice of con­ser­va­tion.” Luisa Maffi co-edited this issue of Pol­icy Mat­ters which includes for the first time, the instiga­tive maps of Rick Stepp, Ter­ralin­gua, and WWF. These maps are the first ever to show cor­re­la­tions between lan­guage, cul­ture and envi­ron­ment. Sec­tion III: Under­stand­ing and Mea­sur­ing Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity, con­tains arti­cles by Luisa Maffi, Rick Stepp, David Har­mon and Jonathan Loh, mak­ing this a must read for Ter­ralin­gua enthu­si­asts and researchers in the field of Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity. The full issue of Pol­icy Mat­ters 13, can be down­loaded here.
  • Eth­nob­otany and Con­ser­va­tion of Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity EthnobotanyConservationPub­li­ca­tion: Eth­nob­otany and Con­ser­va­tion of Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity, T. Carl­son and L. Maffi (eds.). Advances in Eco­nomic Botany Series Vol. 15. Bronx, N.Y.: New York Botan­i­cal Gar­den Press. The vol­ume show­cases recent eth­nob­otan­i­cal research con­ducted by mem­bers of a new gen­er­a­tion of eth­no­bi­ol­o­gists, includ­ing case stud­ies from the trop­i­cal envi­ron­ments of the Ama­zon Basin, Africa, and Asia. Part 1 focuses on the con­tri­bu­tions of tra­di­tional eco­log­i­cal knowl­edge and sus­tain­able use of tra­di­tional plant resources. Part 3 deals with eth­i­cal issues in ethnobiology.
  • Shar­ing a World of Dif­fer­ence: The Earth’s Lin­guis­tic, Cul­tural and Bio­log­i­cal Diver­sity UNESCOcoverPub­li­ca­tion: Shar­ing a World of Dif­fer­ence: The Earth’s Lin­guis­tic, Cul­tural, and Bio­log­i­cal Diver­sity, by T. Skutnabb-kangas, L. Maffi, and D. Har­mon, and com­pan­ion map The World’s Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity: Peo­ple, Lan­guages, and Ecosys­tems. Paris: UNESCO, Ter­ralin­gua, and WWF.
  • Safe­guard­ing the Unique­ness of the Col­orado Plateau: An Ecore­gional Assess­ment of Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity NAUreportCoverPub­li­ca­tion: Safe­guard­ing the Unique­ness of the Col­orado Plateau: An Ecore­gional Assess­ment of Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity, by G. Nab­han et al. Pp. xi-xii. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Envi­ron­ments, Ter­ralin­gua, and Grand Canyon Wild­lands Coun­cil. The assess­ment in the Col­orado Plateau was car­ried out in part­ner­ship with North­ern Ari­zona University’s Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Envi­ron­ments, the Grand Canyon Wild­lands Coun­cil, and the local Native Amer­i­can tribes. It assem­bled for the first time exist­ing infor­ma­tion on the Col­orado Plateau from many dif­fer­ent fields as well as data from orig­i­nal field­work and inter­views with a wide range of stake­hold­ers, to pro­vide a snap­shot of the state and prospects of bio­cul­tural diver­sity in this unique region of the North Amer­i­can continent.
  • On Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity: link­ing lan­guage, knowl­edge, and the envi­ron­ment. MaffiBookcoverPub­li­ca­tion: On Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity: Link­ing Lan­guage, Knowl­edge and the Envi­ron­ment, L. Maffi (ed.). Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion Press. On Bio­cul­tural Diver­sity brings together an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary group of schol­ars from the social and nat­ural sci­ences as well as cul­tural advo­cates, human rights spe­cial­ists, and indige­nous experts to dis­cuss the ways in which the losses of bio­log­i­cal, lin­guis­tic, and cul­tural diver­sity are linked.
  • Indige­nous and Tra­di­tional Peo­ples of the World and Ecore­gion Con­ser­va­tion WWF-TL_report_coverPub­li­ca­tion: Indige­nous and Tra­di­tional Peo­ples of the World and Ecore­gion Con­ser­va­tion: An Inte­grated Approach to Con­serv­ing the World’s Bio­log­i­cal and Cul­tural Diver­sity, by G. Oviedo, L. Maffi, and P.B. Larsen and com­pan­ion map Indige­nous and Tra­di­tional Peo­ples and the Global 200 Ecore­gions. Gland, Switzer­land: WWF-International and Ter­ralin­gua. A Key Ter­ralin­gua Pub­li­ca­tion. From this link you are able to down load the pub­li­ca­tion as well as the map.
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