Territories of Life as Key to Global Environmental Sustainability
Territories and areas that Indigenous peoples and local communities govern, manage, and conserve (hereafter territories of life) are…
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.
On the links between nature’s values and language
Recent research into the plural values about nature is focusing on relational values as a concept through which…
Natura i espiritualitat pels nostres temps
Xavier Perarnau2022
Eutopia was a project of spirituality in and with Nature (also called mountain monastery) that the Catholic priest…
L’écologie intégrale : relier les approches, intégrer les enjeux, tisser une vision
Charlotte Luyckx2020
The concept of integral ecology is a highly topical one: we must learn to weave together both the…
Cultural Significance of Indian Wetlands
Shambhavi Krishna, Suddhabrata Chakraborty, Chhavi Tayal – GIZ2023
This book is a collective effort to document some of the cultural practices associated with wetlands in India….
Stations of the Forest
St Columbans Missions Society2011
The Stations of the Cross is a devotion that commemorates the Passion of Jesus. It is commonly used…
Confronting five hundred years of oppression at the World Conservation Congress: Historic Renunciation of the Doctrine of Discovery
Joe Udell2022
The international legal principle known as the “Doctrine of Discovery” has caused immeasurable harm to indigenous peoples throughout…
Stop Talking. Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education
This book describes a unique higher education project that broke some difficult silences between academic and Alaaka Native…
A Conscious Universe?
Ruper Sheldrake2020
The sciences are pointing toward a new sense of a living world. The cosmos is like a developing…