scholarly journals Acknowledging Indigenous and Local Knowledge to Facilitate Collaboration in Landscape Approaches—Lessons from a Systematic Review

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Portia Adade Williams ◽  
Likho Sikutshwa ◽  
Sheona Shackleton
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Indigenous And Local Knowledge ◽  
Management And Conservation

The need to recognize diverse actors, their knowledge and values is being widely promoted as critical for sustainability in contemporary land use, natural resource management and conservation initiatives. However, in much of the case study literature, the value of including indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in the management and governance of landscapes tends to be overlooked and undervalued. Understanding ILK as comprising indigenous, local and traditional knowledge, this systematic review synthesizes how ILK has been viewed and incorporated into landscape-based studies; what processes, mechanisms and areas of focus have been used to integrate it; and the challenges and opportunities that arise in doing so. Queries from bibliographic databases (Web of Science, JSTOR, Scopus and Africa Wide) were employed. Findings from the review underscore that the literature and case studies that link landscapes and ILK are dominated by a focus on agricultural systems, followed by social-ecological systems, indigenous governance, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation and climate change studies, especially those related to early warning systems for disaster risk reduction. The growing importance of multi-stakeholder collaborations in local landscape research and the promotion of inclusive consultations have helped to bring ILK to the fore in the knowledge development process. This, in turn, has helped to support improved landscape management, governance and planning for more resilient landscapes. However, more research is needed to explore ways to more effectively link ILK and scientific knowledge in landscape studies, particularly in the co-management of these social-ecological systems. More studies that confirm the usefulness of ILK, recognize multiple landscape values and their interaction with structures and policies dealing with landscape management and conservation are necessary for enhanced sustainability.

Influence of community-based natural resource management strategies in the resilience of social-ecological systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 581-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria del Mar Delgado-Serrano ◽  
Elisa Oteros-Rozas ◽  
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén ◽  
Diana Calvo-Boyero ◽  
Cesar Enrique Ortiz-Guerrero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

Adaptive capacity in social–ecological systems: a framework for addressing bark beetle disturbances in natural resource management

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Cottrell ◽  
Katherine M. Mattor ◽  
Jesse L. Morris ◽  
Christopher J. Fettig ◽  
Pavlina McGrady ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Bark Beetle ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Correction to: Influence of community-based natural resource management strategies in the resilience of social-ecological systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-593
Author(s):  
Maria del Mar Delgado-Serrano ◽  
Elisa Oteros-Rozas ◽  
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén ◽  
Diana Calvo-Boyero ◽  
Cesar Enrique Ortiz-Guerrero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Water ethics, justice, and equity in social-ecological systems conservation: lessons from the Queensland Wild Rivers Act

Water Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer H. Shah ◽  
Lucy Rodina
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Water Ethics ◽  
Natural Rivers

Abstract The protection of natural rivers and watersheds face important concerns related to environmental (in)justice and (in)equity. Using the Queensland Wild Rivers Act as a case study, we advocate that ethical water governance attends to multiple and diverse values, specifically in ways that: (i) locate them within stakeholders' claims of inequality that emerge from a given or practiced water ethic; and (ii) historicize and understand them as resonating or reflecting natural resource management frameworks that have led to structural injustices. This approach, combined with adaptive co-governance, can contribute to more inclusive water ethics and even support reflexive spaces where radical change in social-ecological resource governance can be imagined.

Multiple values and knowledge integration in indigenous coastal and marine social-ecological systems research: A systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 100910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Dam Lam ◽  
Alexandros Gasparatos ◽  
Shamik Chakraborty ◽  
Horacio Rivera ◽  
Taira Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Knowledge Structures and Components of Rural Resilience in the 2010s: Conceptual Development and Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9769
Author(s):  
GoWoon Kim ◽  
Wanmo Kang ◽  
Junga Lee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

Resilience is being widely adopted as a comprehensive analytical framework for understanding sustainability dynamics, despite the conceptual challenges in developing proxies and indicators for researchers and policy makers. In our study, we observed how the concept of resilience undergoes continued extension within the rural resilience literature. We comprehensively reviewed rural resilience literature using keyword co-occurrence network (KCN) analysis and a systematic review of shortlisted papers. We conducted the KCN analysis for 1186 papers to characterize the state of the rural resilience literature, and systematically reviewed 36 shortlisted papers to further examine how rural resilience analysis and its assessment tools are helping understand the complexity and interdependence of rural social-ecological systems, over three three-year periods from 2010 to 2018. The results show that the knowledge structure built by the high frequency of co-occurrence keywords remains similar over the three-year periods, including climate change, resilience, vulnerability, adaptation, and management, whereas the components of knowledge have greatly expanded, indicating an increased understanding of rural system dynamics. Through the systematic review, we found that developing resilience assessment tools is often designed as a process to strengthen adaptive capacity at the household or community level in response to global processes of climate change and economic globalization. Furthermore, community resilience is found to be an interesting knowledge component that has characterized rural resilience literature in the 2010s. Based on our study, we summarized conceptual characteristics of rural resilience and discussed the challenges and implications for researchers and policy makers.

scholarly journals A Social-Ecological Systems Understanding of Drivers of Degradation in the Tsitsa River Catchment to Inform Sustainable Land Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Adela Itzkin ◽  
Mary C. Scholes ◽  
Jai Kumar Clifford-Holmes ◽  
Kate Rowntree ◽  
Bennie van der Waal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Climatic Variables ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Social Ecological

Understanding the interactions of the social and biophysical drivers of land degradation is crucial for developing adaptive management actions for future sustainability. A research-praxis project, the ‘Tsitsa Project’ (TP), applies a social-ecological systems (SES) approach where researchers, natural resource managers, and residents collaborate to support sustainable livelihoods and improved natural resource management for the degraded Tsitsa River Catchment (TRC) in South Africa. A system diagramming approach was coupled with findings from interviews, workshops, literature, and two conceptual frameworks. Data inputs were qualitatively integrated to provide a systemic snapshot of how the context-specific social and biophysical drivers are interlinked and how they interact, revealing multiple processes that operate simultaneously to cause and exacerbate land degradation. Physical and climatic variables, changes in land use and cover, and overgrazing were identified as key factors leading to degradation. Additionally, poverty and disempowerment were also important. While little can be done to influence the physical aspects (steep topography and duplex soils) and climatic variables (extreme rainfall and drought), carefully planned changes in land use and management could produce dual-benefits for improving landscape conditions and sustainable livelihoods. This analysis will inform integrated planning processes to monitor, avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation.

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