Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant
Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature
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The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews the state of the literature on this topic by focusing on six pathways by which Indigenous peoples and local communities engage with management of and relationships to nature. These are ( a) undertaking territorial management practices and customary governance, ( b) contributing to nature conservation and restoration efforts with regional to global implications, ( c) co-constructing knowledge for assessments and monitoring, ( d) countering the drivers of unsustainable resource use and resisting environmental injustices, ( e) playing key roles in environmental governance across scales, and ( f) offering alternative conceptualizations of the interrelations between people and nature. The review shows that through these pathways Indigenous peoples and local communities are making significant contributions to managing the health of local and regional ecosystems, to producing knowledge based in diverse values of nature, confronting societal pressures and environmental burdens, and leading and partnering in environmental governance. These contributions have local to global implications but have yet to be fully recognized in conservation and development polices, and by society at large.
Business · Corporate governance · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · State (computer science) · Traditional knowledge · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Mining and Resource Management
Human–wildlife coexistence and social context
Expert Grief
Reciprocity towards nature in the biodiversity science–policy interface
Towards fairer conservation
Protected areas and the neglected contribution of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Transformation of social‐ecological systems in the Songhua River Basin, Northeast China
Confronting forest‐dweller local ecological knowledge and environmental DNA measurements of biodiversity
Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro
Cultural stewardship in urban spaces
Exploring values, rules, and knowledge around traditional hunting in a rapidly developing society
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication
Assessing the role of kelp for small‐scale fisheries by combining fishers' knowledge of spawning locations with modelled kelp distribution
Disavowing the Doctrine of Discovery
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge
Medicinal ethnobotany of the Yakkha community in eastern Nepal
Millennial traditions - Exploration of ethno-medicinal knowledge among different ethnic groups of Northern part Kashmir Himalaya, India
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
Framework for fostering just and equitable seagrass policy, management, and social-ecological outcomes
Perception of riverside folk about environmental degradation in the Igaraçu river, Piauí, Brazil
Problematising the Anthropocene
Education at the crossroads
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Fortress conservation versus traditional forest management
Knowledge Connects Our Hearts and Lands
A transdisciplinary approach to define and assess wild food plant sustainable foraging in Norway
A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Systems and Practices of Solid Waste Management in Rural Communities
Explaining stated partnerships of Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations engaged in climate governance
Mopoonuwa as a Culturally Embedded Governance Mechanism in Village Fund Management
It is Possible to Work with Them and Develop such a Mutually Good Relationship…”
The benefits of Indigenous-led social science
Supporting frontline workers in the biodiversity crisis by empowering and enabling practitioners to embrace conservation evidence
Integrating Local Knowledge into Higher Education
Biocultural practices for more resilient and multifunctional urban nature-based solutions
Is Equality Digital Opportunity Possible for Women? Inequalities and Opportunities in Access to ICT in the Perspective of Sustainable Development
Framing Across the Fractures
Strategies for capturing, managing, and sharing indigenous knowledge
Can You Hear Nature Sing? Enacting the Syilx Ethical Practice of Nʕawqnwixw to Reconstruct the Relationships Between Humans and Nature
Modelling TEK–SDG synergies
Toward Just and Sustainable Futures
Testing the potency of ethnoscience instruction on biology students’ critical thinking ability
A practical framework to guide collaborative environmental decision making among Indigenous Peoples, corporate, and public sectors
Territories of life as key to global environmental sustainability
Signposts on the road toward transformative governance
Unveiling pervasive assumptions
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South
I know a lot about medicinal plants. I read, I watch, and I search
Indigenous peoples as trustees of forests
Conditional visibility
Why history matters to planning
Trends in forest livelihoods research – Taking stock in 2024
Systems literacy
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas
Indigenous Lands with secure land-tenure can reduce forest-loss in deforestation hotspots
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species
We All Need to be One and Listen to Each Other’
More than Landscape
Balpara
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities
Stories of Country
Importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Promoting Biodiversity Conservation Outside Protected Areas
Make America quiet again
Cognitive imperialism in artificial intelligence
Voicing environmental justice
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests
Towards just and transformative social–ecological restoration
Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples’ lands
Framings in Indigenous futures thinking
Integrating cultural perspectives in pro-sustainable-forest-management behavior
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration
Exploring Socio-Ecological Change at Multiple Temporal Scales in the Bas-Ogooué Ramsar Site, Gabon
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes
Crop diversity trends captured by Indigenous and local knowledge
Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy
Factors affecting relational values of nature
Achieving transformational change through the consilience of behavioral science and radical alternatives
Gendered dynamics and cultural values in natural resource management
Perception of local communities on protected areas
Indigenous and local knowledge in biocultural approaches to sustainability
Sharing Indigenous values, practices and priorities as guidance for transforming human–environment relationships
Indigenous knowledge‐bridging to support ecological stewardship in Canada and Tanzania
Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention
Benefits and challenges of reviewing across knowledge systems
Milpa ecologies
Digital technologies in ethnobiology and ethnoecology
Assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation
Towards resilience
Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Pastoral Communities to Sustainable Rangeland Management in Nepal
Graun i laip (‘Land is Life’)
Avifaunal Salience Correlates with Conservation Interest in the Indigenous Nuer Community, Western Ethiopia
Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems
Revitalizing indigenous practices employed by farmers to reduce agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Indigenous Hunting Body Cultural Research as an Emerging Collaborative Self-Governing Approach for Green Ethical Cultural Advocacy as “Protected Belief Status”
Integration of indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge
Social impacts from tourism development in protected areas
Potential for cascading impacts of environmental change and policy on indigenous culture
Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education
The practice of historical ecology
Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6
Justice and conservation
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large‐scale ecological assessments
How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests
Biocultural approaches to well-being and sustainability indicators across scales
Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society
Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000
The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas
Importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes
The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration
Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands
Justice forward
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change
Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance
Assessing nature's contributions to people
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity
Considering Indigenous Peoples and local communities in governance of the global ocean commons
Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability
The need for transformative changes in the use of Indigenous knowledge along with science for environmental decision‐making in the Arctic
Biocultural approaches to sustainability
Conservation from the inside‐out
Covid-19, Indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance
The Past, Present, and Future of Traditional Resource and Environmental Management
Ohuokhai
The Nagoya Protocol and Indigenous Peoples
Wild Meat Species, Climate Change, and Indigenous Amazonians
Worldview Matters
Songs, Settings, Sociality
“There are No Trees Here”
Communitarian weavings
New Transitions from Human Rights to the Environment to the Rights of Nature
African community-based conservation
Future of oil and gas development in the western Amazon
Contesting Justice in Global Forest Governance
The god of the mountain and Godavarman
Storing and sharing
A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people
Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability
Caring for nature matters
Weaving knowledge systems in Ipbes, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability
The Ipbes Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people
Engineering biological diversity
The sustainability challenges of indigenous territories in Brazil's Amazonia
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Spiritual commons
Local indicators of climate change
The roles of non-state actors in climate change governance
Re-envisioning land-based pedagogies as a transformative third space
Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas
Negotiating Indigenous knowledge at the science-policy interface
Climate-related displacements of coastal communities in the Arctic
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge
A Road to Conflict
Cornered by PAs
Intellectual Property Rights and Ethnobiology
Indigenous territories and governance of forest restoration in the Xingu River (Brazil)
Actions against sustainability
Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
Loss of traditional knowledge aggravates wolf–human conflict in Georgia (Caucasus) in the wake of socio-economic change
Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance
The participation of indigenous peoples in international norm-making in the Arctic
Knowledge Loss and Change Between 2002 and 2017—a Revisit of Plant Use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya
Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000 Years Ago
Inawendiwin and Relational Accountability in Anishnaabeg Studies
Introduction to Special Section on Action Ethnobiology
Making Influence Visible
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
What is (the wrong of) cultural appropriation
The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change
Environmental conflicts and defenders
What's in a name? Unpacking "participatory" environmental monitoring
Respecting water
Necropolitics in the Jungle
The Whanganui River as Te Awa Tupua
Stop Burying the Lede
Moving beyond the human-nature dichotomy through biocultural approaches
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity
Sámi reindeer governance in Norway as competing knowledge systems
From Invisibility to Transparency
Indigenous Peoples in UN Redd+ Negotiations
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
The Brazilian Amazon in Times of Covid-19
Rabari Shepherds and the Mad Tree
Long-Term (Secular) Change of Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Useful Plants
Decolonizing Methodologies
Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity
Disturbance, Complexity, Scale
Is there a global environmental justice movement
Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 124 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 24,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 102 |