Conservación, desarrollo, aprovechamiento social
y protección de los conocimientos y recursos
tradicionales en México

	Ethno-ecological approach
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Problems addressed

Nature-society relationships, local and regional socio-environmental problems, traditional knowledge dynamics, resources use and conservation perspectives, and traditional knowledge strengthening and innovation.

Methodology

In this first approach, there are four analysis forms:

1. a. The territorial-spacial aspect.   It has to do with the location on the physical space of the themes of study. Each and everyone of the resources to be analyzed has precise geographic referents, as in the case of resources from Michoacán and Mexico City, in the mountain region known as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; the studies about agave and fish that are carried out in the Hidalgo semi-desertic area, and, finally La Montaña, Guerrero, in the part known as Sierra Madre del Sur.
2. b. The bio-ecological aspect. It acknowledges, in part, the existence of a natural history of species, that is, that every species, sub-species, variety or race, has its own history, which allows us to differentiate a type of corn belonging to a species from a pre-historic origin, a pre-Hispanic origin, or a recent one.
3. c. The society-nature interrelationship aspect. sociedad-naturalezaIt implies the acknowledgement of ancient and recent processes of domestication of cultivated plants (milpas –crop fields, usually corn, squash and beans– from Michoacán and Guerrero), processes of management and exploitation of plants and their byproducts (pines, medicinal plants) and wild animals (achójki) or species denominated as wild in domestication process, such as some agave and nopales.
4. d. The symbolic aspect. It includes specific biological and ecological knowledges, cosmogonies, taxonomies and representations about the habitat, the species and the geographical-territorial units tackled so far in the Sevina and Pátzcuaro workshops.

Participants:

Arturo Argueta, Jaime Navia, Carlos Zolla, Luis Humberto Escalera, Rodolfo Pérez Rodríguez, Gimena Pérez, Anel Martínez, Daniel Altbach, entre otros.