Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on 'Integration'?

dc.contributor.authorBohensky, Erin
dc.contributor.authorMaru, Yiheyis
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-24T16:43:07Z
dc.date.available2012-02-24T16:43:07Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstract"Despite the increasing trend worldwide of integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in natural resource management, there has been little stock-taking of literature on lessons learned from bringing indigenous knowledge and science together and the implications for maintaining and building social-ecological system resilience. In this paper we investigate: (1) themes, questions, or problems encountered for integration of indigenous knowledge and science; (2) the relationship between knowledge integration and social-ecological system resilience; and (3) critical features of knowledge integration practice needed to foster productive and mutually beneficial relationships between indigenous knowledge and science. We examine these questions through content analyses of three special journal issues and an edited book published in the past decade on indigenous, local, and traditional knowledge and its interface with science. We identified broad themes in the literature related to: (1) similarities and differences between knowledge systems; (2) methods and processes of integration; (3) social contexts of integration; and (4) evaluation of knowledge. A minority of papers discuss a relationship between knowledge integration and social-ecological system resilience, but there remains a lack of clarity and empirical evidence for such a relationship that can help distinguish how indigenous knowledge and knowledge integration contribute most to resilience. Four critical features of knowledge integration are likely to enable a more productive and mutually beneficial relationship between indigenous and scientific knowledge: new frames for integration, greater cognizance of the social contexts of integration, expanded modes of knowledge evaluation, and involvement of inter-cultural 'knowledge bridgers.'"en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthDecemberen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber4en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume16en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/7856
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectecologyen_US
dc.subjectindigenous institutionsen_US
dc.subjectintegrationen_US
dc.subjectindigenous knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectresilienceen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.titleIndigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on 'Integration'?en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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