The fading popularity of a local ecological calendar from Brunei Darussalam, Borneo.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Local ecological calendars are ecocultural frameworks that link temporal and spatial scales, contributing to resilience and adaptive management of natural resources and landscapes. They also facilitate management, access and withdrawal of provisioning ecosystem services. In this article, we describe how the ecological calendar of the Kedayan people of Brunei Darussalam links skyscape and biodiversity with sociocultural aspirations to foster adaptive management of landscape, and provide an understanding of the transmission of calendric knowledge in the community.

Methods

In 2018, we collaborated with sixteen purposively sampled knowledge keepers from the Kedayan community of Brunei Darussalam to document the Kedayan local ecological calendar, and develop a calendri

SUBMITTER: Bakar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013451 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature