Ethnoecology
The ethnoecology studied systems of ethno -specific, indigenous environmental knowledge, environmental assessment and environmental use ( "indigenous knowledge systems" ). This approach is a sub-discipline of anthropology.
Development and ethno- ecological approach
The basic ideas of ethno- ecological approach go back to American anthropologist Roy Rappaport. It is a specification of the research on human- environment relationship, as it is native to the geography, landscape ecology and environmental science and other disciplines. As such, the ethnobotany (the science of the study of plants ( botany ) in relation to its use by humans ) one aspect of ethnoecology. In her often synecological approaches at larger spatial scales are followed to identify land use systems.
A large research and application field ethno ecological work has resulted from a partial aspect of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In her ( " Access to genetic resources and equitable benefit-sharing " ABS, in German ) in 1992, the mechanism of the Access and Benefit -sharing introduced. When ABS is both to access to genetic resources for the equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of these resources. ABS serves as other provisions of the CBD to agree on the use of natural resources by humans with the conservation of biodiversity and often based on research involving ethno- ecological approaches.
Critics accuse the discipline to focus on mainly " pre-industrial societies" in less developed parts of he earth before.
Research
In many interdisciplinary projects where the land use is examined in various contexts, including social scientific contexts are collected. Come Depending on the research topic here ethno- ecological approaches to the fore: if a link between the use ( influence) is an ecosystem and specific ethnic groups and their traditions and culture techniques.