Who Breathes the Smoke
Matt Ziegler · 2019
While technologists have investigated environmental sustainability and conservation problems from a variety of angles, rural communities who manage natural resources have underexplored opportunities to benefit from new technologies. Many rural, Indigenous, and non-industrialized communities around the world have developed mature environmental governance structures and practiced effective resource management for thousands of years, and western environmental studies are increasingly recognizing the importance of social, cultural, and institutional factors.