Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Planning and Implementation
Emery, Alan R.2000
Guidelines aimed at governments and NGOs to enable them take into account in an appropriate fashion indigenous people’s…
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
El Chamanismo y las Fuerzas de la Naturaleza. “Un Análisis Sobre la Cosmovisión de los Pueblos Indígenas y Sitios Sagrados”
Aviña, Gustavo [et al.].2005
The document is divided into two blocks, each of which consists of six papers. The first deals with…
Constitution of the Iroquois Nation: the Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa
Haudenossaunee / Iroqois Confedereiton
Constitution of the Iroquois Confederation, which consists of five indigenous North American nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and…
Man and the Invisible
Servier, Jean1964
This book consists of a comparative phenomenological analysis of the relationships that traditional societies have established with the…
Sacredscapes and Pilgrimage Systems
Singh, Rana P.B. (ed.)2005
This publication originates from the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnologic Studies held…
ICOMOS Resolution on Religious Heritage
ICOMOS2005
Resolution 32 was adopted at the 15th General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)…
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
2010
Final declaration of the Working Group on the Rights of Mother Earth, part of the People of the…
Living Religious Heritage: conserving the sacred
Stovel, H; Stanley-Price, N; Killick, R. (eds.)2011
Compilation of articles and case studies presented at the Forum Centre for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage…
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UN General Assembly2007
Declaration 61/295 of the Assembly of the United Nations Organization, approved on 13 September 2007. This Declaration contains…
Knowledge and the Sacred
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein1989
A remarkably comprehensive exposition and analysis of humanity’s pursuit of knowledge, from the sophia perennis viewpoint, which proposes…