TY - JOUR

T1 - Biocultural approaches to sustainability

T2 - A systematic review of the scientific literature

AU - Hanspach, Jan

AU - Jamila Haider, Lisbeth

AU - Oteros-Rozas, Elisa

AU - Stahl Olafsson, Anton

AU - Gulsrud, Natalie M.

AU - Raymond, Christopher M.

AU - Torralba, Mario

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Bieling, Claudia

AU - García-Martín, María

AU - Albert, Christian

AU - Beery, Thomas H.

AU - Fagerholm, Nora

AU - Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel

AU - Drews-Shambroom, Annika

AU - Plieninger, Tobias

PY - 2020/9

Y1 - 2020/9

N2 - Current sustainability challenges demand approaches that acknowledge a plurality of human–nature interactions and worldviews, for which biocultural approaches are considered appropriate and timely. This systematic review analyses the application of biocultural approaches to sustainability in scientific journal articles published between 1990 and 2018 through a mixed methods approach combining qualitative content analysis and quantitative multivariate methods. The study identifies seven distinct biocultural lenses, that is, different ways of understanding and applying biocultural approaches, which to different degrees consider the key aspects of sustainability science—inter- and transdisciplinarity, social justice and normativity. The review suggests that biocultural approaches in sustainability science need to move from describing how nature and culture are co-produced to co-producing knowledge for sustainability solutions, and in so doing, better account for questions of power, gender and transformations, which has been largely neglected thus far. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

AB - Current sustainability challenges demand approaches that acknowledge a plurality of human–nature interactions and worldviews, for which biocultural approaches are considered appropriate and timely. This systematic review analyses the application of biocultural approaches to sustainability in scientific journal articles published between 1990 and 2018 through a mixed methods approach combining qualitative content analysis and quantitative multivariate methods. The study identifies seven distinct biocultural lenses, that is, different ways of understanding and applying biocultural approaches, which to different degrees consider the key aspects of sustainability science—inter- and transdisciplinarity, social justice and normativity. The review suggests that biocultural approaches in sustainability science need to move from describing how nature and culture are co-produced to co-producing knowledge for sustainability solutions, and in so doing, better account for questions of power, gender and transformations, which has been largely neglected thus far. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

KW - bio-cultural

KW - conservation

KW - knowledge

KW - social–ecological systems

KW - Sustainable Development Goals

KW - transformation

KW - values

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Biology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091232439&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/bb2754a4-bf07-3f1a-9a72-3eddaf130489/

U2 - 10.1002/pan3.10120

DO - 10.1002/pan3.10120

M3 - Scientific review articles

AN - SCOPUS:85091232439

VL - 2

SP - 643

EP - 659

JO - People and Nature

JF - People and Nature

SN - 2575-8314

IS - 3

ER -