Gender and age

Abstract

Traditional biological/ecological knowledge (TBK) of natural resource use is dynamic, thanks to the innovation and experimentation that different human groups have performed throughout their evolutionary history. However, this knowledge may suffer from variations that refl ect intrinsic characteristics of the human species. In this chapter, how gender and age infl uence the knowledge of different resources used by human populations and the possible contexts in which these variations can be analyzed will be discussed.