“The river is us; the river is in our veins”: re-defining river restoration in three Indigenous communities

Fox, Coleen; Reo, Nicholas J.; Turner, Dale A.; Cook, Joanne; Dituri, Frank; Fessell, Brett; Jenkins, James F.; Johnson, Aimee; Rakena, Terina M.; Riley, Chris; Turner, Ashleigh; Williams, Julian; Wilson, Mark

doi:10.1007/s11625-016-0421-1

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“…Restoration efforts led by IPLC have also helped to stem the tide of landscape change caused by urbanization or encroachment (Horiuchi et al ). In some cases, restoration efforts have resulted in a change in the local political context, creating a space for assertion of Indigenous spiritual and cultural values to be further reflected in their participation in restoration efforts (Fox et al ).…”

Section: Iplc Participation In Restoration Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He & Lang ). On the other side, IPLC have also taken leadership roles in restoring forests (Paquette et al ; Douterlungne et al ), lakes and rivers (Coombes ; Fox et al ), grasslands and drylands (Pellant et al ; Stenseke ), mangroves and reefs (Selvam et al ; Trialfhianty & Suadi ), and wetlands (Selvam et al ; Henwood et al ). Many of these activities have successfully coupled the goals of ecological restoration and increasing participation of IPLC.…”

Section: Iplc Participation In Restoration Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alternatively, projects that actively involve IPLC in codesigning restoration activities affecting their territories are reported as successful in that they build partnerships (e.g. for comanagement) and address value conflicts over resources (Davenport et al ; Lyver et al ; Fox et al ). Several cases of community forestry, that is, projects involving local communities in forest management, provide a useful model for restoring degraded forests and informing restoration efforts (Nagendra ; Paudyal et al ).…”

Section: Factors Leading To Successful and Beneficial Restoration Promentioning

confidence: 99%

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The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

Reyes‐García

Fernández‐Llamazares

McElwee

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Restoration Ecology

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Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are affected by global environmental change because they directly rely on their immediate environment for meeting basic livelihood needs. Therefore, safeguarding and restoring ecosystem resilience is critical to support their well‐being. Based on examples from the literature, we illustrate how IPLC participate in restoration activities maintaining traditional practices, restoring land degraded by outsiders, and joining outside groups seeking to restore ecosystems. Our review also provides examples of how Indigenous and Local Knowledge can be incorporated in the planning, execution, and monitoring of restoration activities. However, not all restoration initiatives engaging IPLC are beneficial or successful, and the factors that lead to success are not fully known. While local involvement in restoration projects is often mentioned as an element of success, this is primarily associated to projects that actively involve IPLC in codesigning restoration activities affecting their territories, ensure both short‐term direct benefits to IPLC and long‐term support of the maintenance of restored areas, and recognize IPLC local traditions and customary institutions. Based on these examples, we argue that IPLC should be a more important focus in any post‐2020 CBD agenda on restoration.

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Section: Iplc Participation In Restoration Activitiesmentioning

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Section: Iplc Participation In Restoration Activitiesmentioning

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“…Holders of TEK tend to possess the most developed expertise for meeting anticipatory and reflexive challenges as they have a much more detailed understanding of their communities and knowledge systems (Ludwig 2017;Byskov 2017). And indeed, local expertise has become widely reflected in development studies and other fields that increasingly emphasize co-creation in multi-stakeholder 'innovation networks' (Klerkx, Van Mierlo, and Leeuwis 2012;Leeuwis 2013;Prasad 2016;Tisenkopfs, Kunda, and Sumane 2014) and in calls to integrate Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge (Fox et al 2017;Raymond et al 2010;Weiss, Hamann, and Marsh 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Traditional ecological knowledge in innovation governance: a framework for responsible and just innovation

Ludwig

Macnaghten

2019

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Change in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is not easily understood in terms of Western innovation discourses. In fact, innovations in the sense of modern and growth-oriented technologies are common sources for the erosion of TEK. This article brings together current literatures on TEK and innovation studies in addressing questions about the governance of socioecological change. First, we connect TEK to shifting meanings of 'innovation' that emphasize contributions to societal goals rather than economic growth or technological modernization. Second, we situate these shifts in governance frameworks of 'responsible innovation'. Third, we argue that the case for self-determination of traditional communities also identifies limits of integrating TEK with recent innovation discourses. As change in traditional communities is part of a wider political set of struggles about conditions of change and decolonization, debates about innovation require engagement with underlying social justice issues beyond mainstream debates about responsible governance. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Legal personhood for rivers raises a range of scientific, ethical, and institutional questions: What rights might a river have, how should they be understood, and how can they be put into practice? Such concerns epitomize many productive encounters in the "cross-over" spaces where indigenous knowledges and scientific discourses intersect (e.g., Fox et al, 2017;Thomas, 2015;Wilcock, Brierley, & Howitt, 2013;Yates, Harris, & Wilson, 2017).…”

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A geomorphic perspective on the rights of the river in Aotearoa New Zealand

Brierley

Tadaki

Hikuroa

et al. 2018

River Research & Apps

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The granting of rights to the Whanganui River in 2017 emerged as an outcome of Tribunal hearings relating to breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori chiefs and the British Crown in 1840. As this expression of a river as having legal personhood with rights reflects a distinctively Māori perspective upon river systems, it offers the prospect for a new era of sociocultural approaches to river management in Aotearoa New Zealand. Using the Whanganui River as a case study, this paper explores prospective geomorphic meanings of river rights. The paper asks, “What role can geomorphology play in identifying, articulating and protecting the rights of a river?” Ancestral Māori relations to the river based upon mutual codependence (reciprocity) are juxtaposed against geomorphic understandings of a river's agency as expressed through self‐adjustment, diversity of form, evolution, and catchment‐scale connectivities. Relations between river science and indigenous concepts of rivers, framed under the auspices of river rights, present opportunities for different approaches to river management.

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“The river is us; the river is in our veins”: re-defining river restoration in three Indigenous communities

Cited by 83 publications

References 38 publications

The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

Traditional ecological knowledge in innovation governance: a framework for responsible and just innovation

A geomorphic perspective on the rights of the river in Aotearoa New Zealand

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