TY - JOUR

T1 - Appraising biocultural approaches to sustainability in the scientific literature in Spanish

AU - Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel

AU - Hanspach, Jan

AU - Torralba, Mario

AU - Ortiz-Przychodzka, Stefan

AU - Frias, Camila Benavides

AU - Burke, Leonie

AU - García-Martín, María

AU - Oteros-Rozas, Elisa

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.

PY - 2024/4

Y1 - 2024/4

N2 - Biocultural approaches that acknowledge the multiple and dynamic relationships between the diversity of cultures and nature are growing in popularity in sustainability research. Scientific contributions to biocultural approaches written in Spanish are numerous, including influential work on biocultural memory, biocultural heritage and biocultural ethics. However, despite linguistic diversity being considered essential in knowledge production for assuring broad and balanced evidence to successfully cope with sustainability challenges, non-English literature is rarely reviewed and taken into account in English-language scientific knowledge production and publications. This review assesses how the scientific literature in Spanish conceptualizes and applies biocultural approaches, showing their richness beyond the Anglophone predominance in academic knowledge production and communication. The results suggest that insights from Spanish-language scientific literature could contribute alternative methodological and theoretical pathways for biocultural approaches that might foster transformations for more sustainable human-nature relationships. We conclude by highlighting avenues that could bring more plural biocultural studies.

AB - Biocultural approaches that acknowledge the multiple and dynamic relationships between the diversity of cultures and nature are growing in popularity in sustainability research. Scientific contributions to biocultural approaches written in Spanish are numerous, including influential work on biocultural memory, biocultural heritage and biocultural ethics. However, despite linguistic diversity being considered essential in knowledge production for assuring broad and balanced evidence to successfully cope with sustainability challenges, non-English literature is rarely reviewed and taken into account in English-language scientific knowledge production and publications. This review assesses how the scientific literature in Spanish conceptualizes and applies biocultural approaches, showing their richness beyond the Anglophone predominance in academic knowledge production and communication. The results suggest that insights from Spanish-language scientific literature could contribute alternative methodological and theoretical pathways for biocultural approaches that might foster transformations for more sustainable human-nature relationships. We conclude by highlighting avenues that could bring more plural biocultural studies.

KW - Biocultural diversity

KW - Decolonization

KW - Endogenous development

KW - Epistemic justice

KW - Indigenous and local knowledge

KW - Latin America

KW - Biology

KW - Ecosystems Research

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1f1c18f5-ae17-3b5d-bc47-4ddc2136e0e8/

U2 - 10.1007/s13280-023-01969-3

DO - 10.1007/s13280-023-01969-3

M3 - Scientific review articles

C2 - 38267720

AN - SCOPUS:85183056423

VL - 53

SP - 499

EP - 516

JO - Ambio

JF - Ambio

SN - 0044-7447

IS - 4

ER -