Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective
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Indigenous peoples are key actors for environmental management because they hold valuable indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for the sustainable stewardship of nature. However, the consideration of ILK in environmental management is still limited. We explore how environmental government institutions in Colombia have involved indigenous communities in 2212 environmental management projects between 2004 and 2015. Only 1% of these projects involved indigenous peoples as main actors. We applied the Leverage Points (LP) perspective in a content analysis to identify ‘where’ and ‘how’ these projects promote transformative changes within indigenous territories. Moreover, we investigated the interactions between projects targeting shallow and deep LP using cluster analysis. Our results show that these projects mainly seek to improve the well-being of indigenous peoples and consider ILK in their interventions, which suggests changes in deep LP. Additionally, these projects usually combined interventions targeting both shallow and deep LP while using ILK to improve environmental management practices (e.g., Life Plans) and developing participatory land-use planning in the indigenous territories. We argue that the involvement of ILK in environmental management can lead to stronger human–nature connectedness and thus to more successful conservation policies. However, this involvement is still at an early stage in Colombia.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Ecosystems and People |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 290-303 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISSN | 2639-5908 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 01.12.2020 |
Bibliographical note
Activities of Daily Living scale (IADL); Addenbrooke Cognitive Examination (ACE); Attentional Matrices Test (AM); Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS) Wordlists (verbal memory; Baking tray task-; Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II); Behavioral Inattention Test (BIT); Bells Test (BT); Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE); California Verbal Learning Test-II; Catherine Berego Scale CBS; The Chinese version of the Verbal Learning Test (CVVLT); Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR); Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Box scores (CDR-SOB); Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD-K); Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Letters & Animals; Communicative Activity Log (CAL); Computerized Neurocognitive Function Test (CNT): Visual Continuous Performance Test (VCPT), the Auditory Continuous Performance Test (ACPT), the Verbal Learning Test (VLT), and the Visual Recognition Test (VRT); Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD-K); Constructional Recall Test; Digit Cancelation (DC); Executive Interview 25 (EXIT-25); Extinction; Flanker (dual processing and response inhibition); Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB); Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS); Hamilton Rating Scale Depression (HRS-D); Hamilton Rating Scale Anxiety (HRS-A); Immediate Recall and Delayed of Rey Auditory (RAVLT_I and RAVLT_D); Letter cancelation task; Line bisection; Line cancelation task; Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA); Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); Modified Barthel Index (k-MBI); Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA); Picture Arrangement test from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS III); Posner task–reaction time-unified index; Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT); Single Letter Cancelation (SLC); Star cancellation test; Stroop; Stroop Color and Word Test; Trail Making Test A and B (TMT A and B); Verbal Fluency test; Visual Search (VS), Wechsler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III); Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS).
- Colombia, environmental management, Indigenous and local knowledge, Indigenous peoples and local communities, Leverage Points, Marina García-Llorente, resguardo
- Sustainability Science
- Transdisciplinary studies
- Environmental planning