Self‐Determination or Environmental Determinism for Indigenous Peoples in Tropical Forest Conservation

Colchester, Marcus

doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.00129.x

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“…Emerging partnerships between faith groups and conservation science present another powerful opportunity (Dudley et al 2006). Policies emphasizing political empowerment, self-governance and territorial control at the grass-roots level have the potential to provide a solid platform from which communities can play a central role in biodiversity conservation at the same time as retaining their own cultural distinctiveness and connectedness to the land (Colchester 2000;Schwartzman et al 2000;Peres & Zimmerman 2001;Heckenberger 2004;Athayde et al 2007).…”

Section: Better Integration For the Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems

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Envir. Conserv.

110

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SUMMARYThe emergent human cultures have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, local ecosystems. Yet humanity's intense modification of the environment has resulted in dramatic worldwide declines in natural and cultural capital. Social-ecological systems are becoming more vulnerable through the disruption of livelihoods, governance, institutions, resources and cultural traditions. This paper reviews the environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged to seek solutions for conservation and maintenance of the resilience of social-ecological systems. It shows that a central component is engagement with the knowledges of people within their contexts. Local knowledges of nature (traditional, indigenous, local ecological knowledge and ecoliteracy) are used by place-based cultures to guide actions towards nature. The importance of new engagements between different knowledges is now becoming more widely recognized by scientific institutions. Yet there still exist many false dualisms (for example local knowledge versus science) which tend to emphasize a superiority of one over the other. Ecocultures retain or strive to regain their connections with the environment, and thus improve their own resilience. Revitalization projects offer ways to connect knowledge with action to produce optimal outcomes for both nature and culture, suggesting that systems can be redesigned by emphasis on incorporation of local and traditional knowledge systems.

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Section: Better Integration For the Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems

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2011

Envir. Conserv.

110

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“…In several of the more widely cited and influential scientific publications on conservation planning (Margules and Pressey, 2000;Pressey et al, 2007), the potential value of indigenous knowledge to conservation is conspicuously absent, despite the view of some scholars that scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge can be complementary (Agrawal, 1995;Houde, 2007). Regardless of the importance of indigenous knowledge, a pragmatic argument can be made that conservationists cannot rely on state bureaucracies to defend isolated, protected areas of high biodiversity (Colchester, 1998) and that biodiversity protection must occur with larger managed landscapes occupied by human beings that care about the environment and the wellbeing of future generations (Colchester, 2000).…”

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Participatory Mapping with Indigenous Communities for Conservation: Challenges and Lessons from Suriname

Ramirez-Gomez

Brown

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2013

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The indigenous peoples of Southern Suriname depend on landscape services provided by intact, functioning ecosystems, but their use and reliance on natural landscapes is not well understood. In 2011, Conservation International Suriname (CIS) engaged in a participatory GIS (PGIS) mapping project to identify ecosystem services with the Trio and Wayana indigenous peoples living in five villages in Southern Suriname. The PGIS project involved a highly remote and inaccessible region, multiple indigenous peoples, villages with different perceptions and experiences with outsiders, and a multitude of regional development pressures. We describe the PGIS project from inception to mapping to communication of the results to the participants with a particular focus on the challenges and lessons learned from PGIS project implementation. Key challenges included decoupling the PGIS process from explicit CIS conservation objectives, engaging reluctant villages in the project, and managing participant expectations about project outcomes. Lessons learned from the challenges included the need to first build trust through effective communication, selecting initial project locations with the greatest likelihood of success, and to manage expectations by disclosing project limitations with the indigenous communities and external parties.

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“…In fact, conservation-minded outsiders have only a few choices it they want protection for these habitats. They can try to protect the forests while excluding the indigenous people -treating them essentially as fauna and making enemies of them -or they can assist them as allies (Colchester 2000(Colchester , 2004Schwartzman et al 2000). The latter choice carries its own problems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not all indigenous people want to save the forest, given their current assessment of costs and benefits of doing so; a certain amount of discrimination is necessary. Those who do usually want to either own the land (Colchester 2000), or, in the case of protected areas, to have signed legal agreements with governments giving them use…”

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Deforestation and Waodani Lands in Ecuador: Mapping and Demarcation Amidst Shaky Politics

Stocks¹,

Noss²,

Bryja³

et al. 2012

Deforestation Around the World

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Self‐Determination or Environmental Determinism for Indigenous Peoples in Tropical Forest Conservation

Cited by 83 publications

References 2 publications

Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems

Interdisciplinary progress in approaches to address social-ecological and ecocultural systems

Participatory Mapping with Indigenous Communities for Conservation: Challenges and Lessons from Suriname

Deforestation and Waodani Lands in Ecuador: Mapping and Demarcation Amidst Shaky Politics

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