<p>Several scenarios point toward a future where we are far more people on Earth than today, where most of those people will live in cities and where oil no longer dominates in the transport systems and in agriculture as an energy source and where less energy will be available to us. The report investigates what areas in traditional ecological knowledge that can contribute to the transition that follows a future with less energy and establishes three areas with the potential of becoming important:</p><p> </p><ol><li>areaspecific biological knowledge in societies that are more dependent upon its surrounding environment and its natural prerequisites</li><li>the local management of these biological resources, which often means a fair sharing and sustainable handling of the resources and which has been observed in Nobel price awarded Elinor Ostrom’s research</li><li>the world views that lie behind how the environment is considered and managed, world views that can inspire and point toward how we in the future should formulate world views that do not give the destructive modern management of the environment</li></ol><p> </p><p>It is also noted that the magnitude of the city living in the future is a historical news and that very little research has been done in how traditional knowledge can be transferred into this kind of living.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:miun-11812 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | christiansson, samuel |
| Publisher | Mid Sweden University, Department of Engineering and Sustainable Development |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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