Heart of borneo as a ′Jalan Tikus′: Exploring the links Between indigenous rights, extractive and exploitative industries, and conservation at the World Conservation Congress 2008

Hitchner, Sarah

doi:10.4103/0972-4923.78148

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“…In the last two decades we have witnessed a proliferation of research initiatives, programmes and policies that are premised on the inclusion of IK/TEK in environmental decision‐making. Numerous conservation initiatives have shown how projects in biologically diverse regions can improve and steer conservation practices by incorporating local knowledge and land use systems into science‐based conservation plans (Colchester 1994; Colfer and Soedjito 1996; Colfer et al . 1997; Hitchner 2009a).…”

Section: Linking Cultural Diversity and Conservation Through A Seriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural diversity and conservation

Brosius¹,

Hitchner²

2010

Int Social Sci J

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“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity”. Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt The biocultural perspective, a direct result of the crisis narrative regarding cultural and biological extinctions, overemphasises the homogenising effects of globalisation and fails to recognise processes that actively produce diversity. Cartographic visualisations depicting overlapping zones of biological and cultural diversity simplify complex realities and provide little guidance for policy and practice. Moving beyond this perspective requires problematisation of essentialist notions of culture, analysis of the politics surrounding the production of knowledge, and acknowledgement of the anthropogenic nature of landscapes often deemed “pristine”. The biocultural perspective is reviewed within the context of recent trends in conservation, from community‐based conservation to the more recent “Strategic Turn” in conservation. To define a new perspective linking cultural diversity and conservation, the authors argue that we need a new politics of knowledge that: (a) moves beyond notions of TEK as the only valid form of local knowledge that can be integrated into conservation planning, (b) examines how local perspectives are translated between scales, and (c) creates new linkages between local knowledge and the policy domain. This new politics of knowledge can help make visible multiple actors, multiple forms of agency, and multiple regimes of credibility and can elucidate the ways in which knowledge about cultural diversity and biological diversity is produced, circulated, and incorporated into decision‐making.

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Section: Linking Cultural Diversity and Conservation Through A Seriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural diversity and conservation

Brosius¹,

Hitchner²

2010

Int Social Sci J

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“…It also has a unique geographical setting with altitude mainly below 1000 m, and the northern part of the island has a core with altitude ranging from 1000 m to 2000 m ASL (Barton and Paz, 2007). Politically, Borneo is made up three sovereign countries; Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, and Indonesia (Hitchner, 2010). Edible vegetable is among products collected from the forest by indigenous people of the island (Hastin et al, 2013).…”

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Traditional vegetable salad (ulam) of Borneo as source of functional food

Awang-Kanak¹,

Bakar²

2019

Food Res.

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Traditional vegetable salad or "ulam" are shown to have beneficial properties for health maintenance and should be further studied and used as a source of food as well as medicine. Apparently, the fern species are highlighted common plants that have been consumed as traditional vegetable all around Borneo, especially Stenochlaena palustris or locally known as "lemiding" (Brunei), "lambiding" (Sabah), "midin" (Sarawak), and "kalakai" (Kalimantan). Stenochlaena palustris was also studied for its phenolic contents and antioxidant properties. The extract of the edible young sterile frond of Stenochlaena palustris contained more anthocyanins (51.32 mg/100 g dry matter) compared to extracts of mature sterile, young fertile, and mature fertile fronds of the fern. The Penan people also used Stenochlaena palustris as herbal medicine to reduce high fever and served it to new mothers during the postpartum recovery period. Other fern species that have been cited used in Borneo are Diplazium esculentum, Nephrolepis acutifolia, and Nephrolepis bisserata. Fruit of Solanum torvum, leaves of Cosmos caudatus, the flower buds of Etlingera spp., young shoot of bamboo species, and banana inflorescence have been consumed as traditional vegetable in many parts of Borneo, the preparation being either fresh or used as a condiment in cooking. In previous literature also noted that seaweeds namely Kappahycus alvarezzii and Eucheuma denticulatum, as well as mushrooms like Termitomyces aurantiacus, have also been administered as traditional vegetable. It is scientifically shown that traditional vegetable from Borneo have potential as food that could bring health benefit to the consumer, especially in preventing oxidative damage related diseases, microbial infection, and metabolic disorder such as diabetes. Innovation on consumption method of traditional vegetable also suggested, for example, the traditional vegetable be developed into natural food products and food additive, e.g. herbal teas, essential oil.

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“…To increase conservation impact, HoB operational management is devolved to the landscape scale-a spatial delineation defined by combination of social-ecological parameters including watersheds and political jurisdictions [8]. This stems from evidence that biodiversity and environmental conservation action also aimed at addressing the aspirations and poverty of locals is best addressed at the landscape scale [21].…”

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“…Science often situates their problems at the frontier of agribusiness economies and Indonesia's problematic, and often complex, governance arrangements [4][5][6][7]. A common concern entry-point emerges from the challenges and opportunities of new and rapidly-expanding oil palm plantations [8]. Locally, the millions of people living there ultimately face the consequences of this change [9].…”

Section: Landscapes In the Heart Of Borneomentioning

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“…Their coordinated efforts aim to sustainably manage landscapes for increased prosperity and biodiversity in Borneo's geographical center [8]. The HoB initiative aims to coordinate Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia to achieve the long term goal of conserving one of the world's most regarded biodiversity hotspots [16].…”

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Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Langston

Riggs

Sururi

et al. 2017

Land

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Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presented by rapidly spreading estate crops in the frontier of the agricultural market economy. Smallholder communities are subject to considerable speculation by outsiders, yet large-scale agriculture presents tradeoffs that they must navigate. We initiated a study in Sintang, West Kalimantan in 2012 and have returned annually for the last four years, building the baselines for a longer-term landscape approach to reconciling conservation and development tradeoffs in situ. Here, the stakeholders are heterogeneous, yet the land cover of the landscape is on a trajectory towards homogenous mono-cropping systems, primarily either palm oil or rubber. In one village on the frontier of the agricultural market economy, natural forests remain managed by the indigenous and local community but economics further intrude on forest use decisions. Conservation values are declining and the future of the forest is uncertain. As such, the community is ultimately attracted to more economically attractive uses of the land for local development oil palm or rubber mono-crop farms. We identify poverty as a threat to community-managed conservation success in the face of economic pressures to convert forest to intensive agriculture. We provide evidence that lucrative alternatives will challenge community-managed forests when prosperity seems achievable. To alleviate this trend, we identify formalized traditional management and landscape governance solutions to nurture a more sustainable landscape transition.

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Heart of borneo as a ′Jalan Tikus′: Exploring the links Between indigenous rights, extractive and exploitative industries, and conservation at the World Conservation Congress 2008

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Cultural diversity and conservation

Cultural diversity and conservation

Traditional vegetable salad (ulam) of Borneo as source of functional food

Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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