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Filmmaker Alan Ereira on the value of genuine scientific collaboration with indigenous people as knowledge partners

Filmmaker Alan Ereira, Professor of Practice at University of Wales Trinity St. David, reflects on the value of genuine scientific collaboration with indigenous people as knowledge partners in the visioning discussions taking place at the BRIDGES establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 11-12 June 2019.

Credit: Originally published by Bifrost. Materials were recorded by Lea Rekow in Paris 2019, and are published by courtesy of the BRIDGES coalition partners and licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

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