La Montología Global 4D: Hacia las Ciencias Convergentes y Transdisciplinarias de Montaña a través del Tiempo y el Espacio

Sarmiento, Fausto O.; Haller, Andreas; Marchant, Carla; Yoshida, Masahito; Leigh, David S.; Woosnam, Kyle; Porinchu, David F.; Gandhi, Kamal; King, Elizabeth G.; Pistone, Mattia; Kavoori, Andanam; Calabria, Jon; Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema; Chávez, Renato; Gunya, Alexey; Yépez, Alden; Lee, Sungkyung; Reap, James

doi:10.3989/pirineos.2023.178001

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“…With the integration of data from permanent botanical plots from over 1400 Amazonian sites, within protected areas or Indigenous territories, new insights contribute to our understanding of the huge plant and animal diversity within the tropical rain forest ecosystem. There is a continuum of slope overlap from the Andes in the headwaters to the flatland Amazonian plain, covered with a thick layer of greenery, so that a detailed tapestry of forest canopy cover appears to a casual observer as uniformly verdant [19,82]; but in reality there is no one monolithic Amazon, there are several Amazons [83], including the ones in the Andean flanks.…”

Section: Upper Amazonia and Tourism Of Cultural Mountainscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Legacies and Ethnotourism: Bridging Science and Community in Ecuador’s Amazonia

Sarmiento,

Bush,

McMichael

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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This paper offers paradigmatic insights from an international workshop on Ecological Legacies: Bridge Between Science and Community, in Ecuador, in the summer of 2023. The conference brought together foreign and local scholars, tour operators, village community, and Indigenous leaders in the upper Amazonia region of Ecuador with the goal of developing a vision for a sustainable and regenerative future of the upper Amazon. The conference offered three epistemological contributions to the existing literature in the emergent field of Montology, including addressing issues of (a) understanding the existing linguistic hegemony in describing tropical environments, (b) the redress of mistaken notions on pristine jungle environments, and (c) the inclusion of traditional knowledge and transdisciplinary approaches to understand the junglescape from different perspectives and scientific traditions. Methodologically, the conference bridged the fields of palaeoecological and ethnobotanical knowledge (as part of a wider conversation between science and local communities). Results show that local knowledge should be incorporated into the study of the junglescape and its conservation, with decolonial approaches for tourism, sharing language, methodology, tradition, and dissemination of the forest’s attributes. Our research helped co-create and formulate the “Coca Declaration” calling for a philosophical turn in research, bridging science and ethnotourism in ways that are local, emancipatory, and transdisciplinary. We conclude that facilitating new vocabulary by decolonial heightening of Indigenous perspectives of the junglescape helps to incorporate the notion of different Amazons, including the mountainscape of the Andean–Amazonian flanks. We also conclude that we can no consider Ecuador the country of “pure nature” since we helped demystify pristine nature for foreign tourists and highlighted local views with ancestral practices. Finally, we conclude that ethnotourism is a viable alternative to manage heritagization of the junglescape as a hybrid territory with the ecological legacies of the past and present inhabitants of upper Amazonia.

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Section: Upper Amazonia and Tourism Of Cultural Mountainscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%