Abstract In architecture and planning domain, sustainability has been considered as a core strategy for over three decades now. The modern era of globalisation, led to homogenisation in architecture, thus widening the gap between Traditional Building Knowledge systems (TBKS) worldwide. This is at an alarming speed alienating architectural concepts from context its people, by ignoring aspects. T...

Contemporary Western attitudes concerning the management of natural resources, treatment of nonhuman animals, and the natural world emerge from traditions derived from Western European philosophy, i.e., they assume that humans are autonomous from, and in control of, the natural world. A different approach is presented by Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples of North Amer...

Expert mining is an emergent theory and technique that is useful for collecting the ideas, experiences, knowledge and wisdom from experts. Thus, in this paper, the authors have applied expert mining to solve problems related to social system and knowledge systems pertaining to specific types of information. TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) masters accumulated useful knowledge in medicine from...

S I D E 1 – C a S E S T U D I E S 1 C h i n a C a s e S t u d y P a r t i c i p a t o r y M a i z e B r e e d i n g & P r o t e c t i o n o f F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 2 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y P r o t e c t i n g L e p c h a & L i m b u s F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 3 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y – P r o t e c t i n g Y a n a d i H e a l e r s ’ R i g h t...

“Indigenous cultural knowledge has always been an open treasure box for the unfettered appropriation of items of value to Western civilization. While we assiduously protect rights to valuable knowledge among ourselves, indigenous people have never been accorded similar rights over their cultural knowledge. Existing Western intellectual property laws support, promote, and excuse the wholesale, u...

Much research on traditional ecological knowledge (hereafter TEK) has centred in 1) documenting fading knowledge (e.g., Ferguson and Messier 1997; Pieroni et al. 2004), 2) understanding the parallel changes in biological and cultural diversity (Maffi 2005; Harmon and Loh 2010), and 3) assessing the processes and drivers of change that lead to the loss of TEK (Benz et al. 2000; Kingsbury 2001; G...

The paper discusses the use of Web 2.0 as a new means for knowledge management for professional organisations in general, and for emergency response in particular. It is argued that there is no clear understanding of how traditional knowledge management and Web 2.0 processes align. Thus, this paper analyses traditional knowledge management processes in the context of Web 2.0 processes and prese...