Socio-Ecological Systems and Decoloniality

Dr. Deepa Pullanikkatil is a Civil Engineer turned Environmental Scientist, with a PhD in Environmental Science and over 20 years of work experience. She is founder of a small non-profit organization “Abundance” based in Malawi and is Co-Director of the Sustainable Futures Global Network which brings together researchers, practitioners, and communities to address the common goal of a sustainable and equitable world. Dr. Kerry Hughes is an Ethnobotanist, Herbalist and Author with a 20-year record-of-success in natural product development. She works at the nexus of market opportunity identification, innovative product formulation, and global natural product ingredient development.

• Chapter1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge for Socio-Ecological Systems: A 20-Year Global Bibliometric Analysis.- Chapter3. Interfacing indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge for improved health outcomes: A case of Eswatini.- Chapter4. Indigenous Ways of Predicting Agricultural Droughts in Zimbabwe.- Chapter5. Kusintha kwa nyengo: local meanings of climate change in Malawi.- Chapter6. Unravelling indigenous knowledge using the Msangu (Faidherbia albida) tree in Malawi: through the voice of farmers.- Chapter7. Traditional Early Warning Signals for Floods and Drought in Nsanje and Chikhwawa Districts, Malawi.- Chapter8. Conservation of Natural Forests through Indigenous Religious Beliefs and Practices: A Case Study of M’bona Cult, Nsanje District, Malawi.- Chapter9. Cross-scale properties and adaptive management of indigenous residual moisture crop cultivation systems in Malawi.- Chapter10. Indigenous Knowledge and Practice Related to Health, Nutrition and Environments in Bangladesh.- Chapter11. Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes of Pastoralists towards Tsetse flies and Trypanosomiasis in the Maasai Steppe, Northern Tanzania.- Chapter12. Shortage, meanings, and adaptations of water: Reflections on the perspectives elders from San José Lachiguirí Oaxaca, Mexico.- Chapter13. North American case studies of medicinal plant conservation.- Chapter14. Contested understanding of river health from communities’ perspective in the Lower Komati River in South Africa.- Chapter15. Awajun and Ginger: Introduced Species Becoming Important Traditional Medicines.- Chapter16. Overview of Brazilian Biodiversity Law and Identification of Legal Instruments and Strategies for Effective Participation of Traditional Communities in exporting and other commercial opportunities related to biodiversity assets.- Chapter17. Lessons learnt.