Ecocultural control of natural energy resources in Southern Ethiopia

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Title:	Ecocultural control of natural energy resources in Southern Ethiopia
Author:	Amborn, Hermann
Year:	2012
Periodical:	Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (ISSN 1430-1938)
Volume:	15
Pages:	118-135
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ethiopia
Subjects:	natural resources sustainable development environmental management agricultural ecology indigenous knowledge
External link:	https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/663/671
Abstract:	Dealing with resource problems, energy balance, and sustainable climate protection have become subjects of public interest. Indigenous knowledge and concepts, however, are seldom dealt with by Western scientists. On the basis of exemplary cases from South-Western Ethiopia, the interdependence of technical, social, and symbolic knowledge and experiences is demonstrated, from which a model can be derived. With the aid of this model, it can be shown, under certain cultural conditions and through controlled mastery of vital resources, how a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment can be developed which does not endanger the habitat in question. The decisive factor in this case is an ethos that places man in a context of space and time which goes beyond his own lifetime and provides a link to past and future generations. Counterexamples show the fragile character of the presented system of relationships. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]