Abstract Reindeer meat, traditional food and knowledge are vital for the culture, health, economy of Sámi reindeer herders. Nevertheless, practices meat smoking have barely been part scientific research or herding management. We investigated herders’ approach to in Northern Norway performed tent, lávvu . The investigation included workshops, interviews, participatory observations, co-analyze me...

traditional knowledge is commercialized without due respect for the cultural and economic interests of the communities in which it originates. at the same time, and often, no share of the returns from its exploitation is conceded to the communities, which have developed and maintained it. today, traditional knowledge is valuable economic and cultural assets within the global information society...

The aim of the paper is to shown that in practice, the Cold Heat diagnosis of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine is better to combining positive and negative knowledge. Based on text book and experiences of Traditional medicine practitioner we build the knowledge base combining positive knowledge and negative knowledge for Cold Heat diagnosis. Then we use the FuzzRESS A Fuzzy Rule-based Expert Sys...

For this purpose, I take 'traditional knowledge' to mean the body of knowledge, science and techniques used by rural people, and the term 'modern knowledge' to mean the body of knowledge, science and techniques arising essentially from the European scientific revolution of the 17th century.1 Traditional knowledge and modern knowledge are not at either end of a continuum of usefulness or scienti...

A new solution to detect and define the coordinate system of gis data based on geographic names automatically is presented. GIS-Users with almost no knowledge of coordinate systems and projections have often problems to integrate gis data in their projects, because the datasets have a wrong, or no projection definition. Since the solution works in the Austrian Service for Torrent and Avalanche ...