Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana, SW Spain

Gómez-Baggethun, Erik; Reyes‐García, Victoria; Olsson, Per; Montes, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.02.005

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“…The relevance of LEK in a changing semi-arid environment and the role of environmental policies in promoting LEK Our results and those from other studies (Gómez-Baggethun et al 2010;Carvalho and Frazão-Moreira 2011;Gómez-Baggethun et al 2012) continue to confirm that existing bodies of LEK remain in rural areas of industrialized countries, often concurrently with protected areas. In fact, LEK and its associated practices have been pivotal for the design and maintenance of these landscapes.…”

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Factors influencing local ecological knowledge maintenance in Mediterranean watersheds: Insights for environmental policies

Iniesta-Arandia

García-del-Amo

García-Nieto

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Local ecological knowledge (LEK) has been found to be one of the main bridges to manage biocultural diversity. We analyzed the factors affecting LEK maintenance and transmission in a Mediterranean watershed. We used a mixed methods approach to evaluate the agricultural LEK in three different dimensions: biological, soil and water management, and forecasting. We found that the main factors for its maintenance were the respondent's time living in the area and the social relationships established among farmers, which involved partner collaboration and farmer information exchanges. Protected areas also played a key role for maintaining the LEK associated with soil and water management. Finally, we found that outmigration and mechanization were the most important indirect drivers of change underlying LEK erosion. We suggest that environmental policies should focus on promoting this experiential knowledge, considering both intergenerational renewal and the gendered aspects of this knowledge.

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Factors influencing local ecological knowledge maintenance in Mediterranean watersheds: Insights for environmental policies

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García-del-Amo

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“…A review conducted by Berkes et al (2000), for example, also identified the use of rules supported by customary institutions, rituals, and other traditions; flexibility in decision making; accumulation of ecosystem knowledge; and diversification of livelihood strategies as key mechanisms used by local people to cope with dynamic change in traditionally managed systems. In a recent study, Gómez-Baggethun et al (2012) also identified these coping mechanisms as instrumental elements of traditional resource management in Spain's National Park of Doñana. Particularly in community-based conservation contexts, reported outcomes of the reviewed case studies suggest that, even though current environmental change is faster than the processes of generating and transmitting traditional ecological knowledge, many communities engaged in community-based conservation have been able to learn from experience and errors, engage young people in this learning process, and innovate and generate new knowledge to overcome crisis.…”

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Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

Ruíz-Mallén¹,

Corbera²

2013

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ABSTRACT. Our review highlights how traditional ecological knowledge influences people's adaptive capacity to socialecological change and identifies a set of mechanisms that contribute to such capacity in the context of community-based biodiversity conservation initiatives. Twenty-three publications, including twenty-nine case studies, were reviewed with the aim of investigating how local knowledge, community-based conservation, and resilience interrelate in social-ecological systems. We highlight that such relationships have not been systematically addressed in regions where a great number of community conservation initiatives are found; and we identify a set of factors that foster people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and a number of social processes that, in contrast, undermine such capacity and the overall resilience of the socialecological system. We suggest that there is a need to further investigate how climate variability and other events affect the joint evolution of conservation outcomes and traditional ecological knowledge, and there is a need to expand the current focus on social factors to explain changes in traditional ecological knowledge and adaptive capacity towards a broader approach that pays attention to ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.

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“…Resilience in social-ecological systems is highly related to the capacity of people to respond collectively to a disturbance [31,32]. Trust, social networks and leadership, that is social cohesion or social capital, are important factors for the capacity of the response of communities [19,22,30].…”

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Towards an Urban Resilience Index: A Case Study in 50 Spanish Cities

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Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and global environmental decline. With accelerated urbanization worldwide, it is essential to put in place new policies to conserve urban ecosystems, species and the services these provide in order to secure more sustainable, resilient and livable cities for the 21st century. In urban planning, the concept of resilience has broadly replaced the word sustainability. In recent years, resilience indicators have been gradually developed, but few address urban resilience from a social-ecological systems perspective. We develop a methodological framework to measure urban resilience, define an urban resilience index and apply it to Spanish province capitals as a case study. Results show that most Spanish province capitals are far from being resilient. We conclude that increased efforts to measure urban resilience should be in place, and we offer the urban resilience index as a theoretical framework for measuring resilience in urban social-ecological systems that can be gradually improved as more data become available.

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Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana, SW Spain

Cited by 216 publications

References 45 publications

Factors influencing local ecological knowledge maintenance in Mediterranean watersheds: Insights for environmental policies

Factors influencing local ecological knowledge maintenance in Mediterranean watersheds: Insights for environmental policies

Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

Towards an Urban Resilience Index: A Case Study in 50 Spanish Cities

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