1．Folk Wisdom in Using Nature.Some Aspects of Sustainability&Rudnev Viatcheslav 1
2．Indigenous Knowledge,Sustainable Development and Conflict:Is Peace Necessary?(1)&Billings Dorothy K. 9
3．Why World Culture Heritage?Democracy,local participation and knowledge production in the world culture nomination of Farms in Halsingland,Sweden&Andersson Maj-Britt.and Aronsson Inga-Lill 21
4．Guidance from Na-yakku—Vanniyaletto of Sri Lanka(1)&Blundell David 34
5．Earthen Architecture as Sustainable Alternative for Housing:an Archaeological Case in Tropical Wetlands&Daneels Annick 48
6．Attitude and Participation of Rural Poor in Social Forestry Programme&Das Emmanuel P.K.and Santosh Kumar Singh 60
7．El Cuartelejo:High Plains Laws and Identity—Service Learning the History of a Bioregion&Davis-Stephens Linda 73
8．The bear in the traditional and contemporary culture of the Russian peasants in Siberia&Fursova Elena 82
9．On the necessity of introduction of appropnate scientifically-based quantitative criteria on the problem of sustainable development into research and practical use of the world community&Gasanov Magomedkadi,Fedotov Arkady,Gavrilov Aleksandr 86
10．Four examples of indigenous knowledge for sustainable development from New Hanover Island in the Pacific region&Kaiku Tukul 93
11．Youth Dormitory Systems:Indigenous Institutions of Traditional Knowledge Maintenance among the Tribes of North East India at Cross Roads&Kuli rani Baby Francis,Athparia R.P.,Dhar Bibhash 108
12．Traditional Folk Calendar Nowadays(an Udmurtian Example)&Minniyakhmetova Tatiana 121
13．Bath-house(bania)and the Traditional Method of Health Maintenance&Nikonova Liudmila 131
14．The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Their Cultures under International Law.&Phillips,James S. 140
Conclusion 149