Applying local knowledge: the contribution of oral history to wetland rehabilitation at Kanyapella Basin, Australia

Robertson, Hugh A.; McGee, Tara K.

doi:10.1016/s0301-4797(03)00155-5

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“…The indigenous knowledge is not only helpful in understanding the actual rangeland condition, but may also encourage local participation for rangeland rehabilitation activities (Robertson and McGee 2003). …”

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confidence: 99%

Livestock-based knowledge of rangeland quality assessment and monitoring at landscape level among borana herders of northern Kenya

Dabasso

Oba

Roba

2012

Pastor Res Policy Pract

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It has not been easy to capture landscape level grazing parameters through participatory assessment and monitoring of rangeland quality. Disagreements exist on what indicators to use and how the generated data can be linked to management-related information and whether the methods can be replicated across different grazing areas. Rangeland quality assessment and monitoring has hence focused on conventional scientific methods while the role of indigenous ecological knowledge of local herders has been given less emphasis. This study explored Borana herders' knowledge of assessing and monitoring rangeland quality at landscape level in Marsabit Central District in northern Kenya. A number of participatory methods have been used, including focused group discussion, key informant interviews and a joint field survey. We established that Borana herders have a considerable ecological knowledge which focuses on livestock-based indicators at the level of classified landscapes. The herders' personal experiences and social memory further provided an environmental history of grazing landscapes and their perceptions of rangeland quality change. The herders' knowledge can be integrated with conventional ecological methods to assess and monitor rangeland quality.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Livestock-based knowledge of rangeland quality assessment and monitoring at landscape level among borana herders of northern Kenya

Dabasso

Oba

Roba

2012

Pastor Res Policy Pract

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“…Especially in the context of ecosystem services management, multiple forms of local or situated knowledge exist within rural communities. These include traditional knowledge, i.e., intergenerational understanding of ecosystems and beliefs that condition ecosystem services (Berkes, 1993), as well as more recent situated understandings of ecosystem services and associated management practices (Robertson and McGee, 2003) and personal insights derived from individual experience (Fazey et al, 2006). Such local knowledge contrasts with more formalized scientific knowledge on ecosystem services, often generated by external agencies (including extension agencies, rural experts and researchers) and based on hypothesis building and testing.…”

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Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

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The participation of the general public in the research design, data collection and interpretation process together with scientists is often referred to as citizen science. While citizen science itself has existed since the start of scientific practice, developments in sensing technology, data processing and visualization, and communication of ideas and results, are creating a wide range of new opportunities for public participation in scientific research. This paper reviews the state of citizen science in a hydrological context and explores the potential of citizen science to complement more traditional ways of scientific data collection and knowledge generation for hydrological sciences and water resources management. Although hydrological data collection often involves advanced technology, the advent of robust, cheap, and low-maintenance sensing equipment provides unprecedented opportunities for data collection in a citizen science context. These data have a significant potential to create new hydrological knowledge, especially in relation to the characterization of process heterogeneity, remote regions, and human impacts on the water cycle. However, the nature and quality of data collected in citizen science experiments is potentially very different from those of traditional monitoring networks. This poses challenges in terms of their processing, interpretation, and use, especially with regard to assimilation of traditional knowledge, the quantification of uncertainties, and their role in decision support. It also requires care in designing citizen science projects such that the generated data complement optimally other available knowledge. Lastly, using 4 case studies from remote mountain regions we reflect on the challenges and opportunities in the integration of hydrologically-oriented citizen science in water resources management, the role of scientific knowledge in the decision-making process, and the potential contestation to established community institutions posed by co-generation of new knowledge.

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“…In some cases, local knowledge can provide essential information not otherwise available to science (Robertson and McGee 2003).…”

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Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Johnson

Howitt

Cajete³

et al. 2015

Sustain Sci

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Applying local knowledge: the contribution of oral history to wetland rehabilitation at Kanyapella Basin, Australia

Cited by 95 publications

References 21 publications

Livestock-based knowledge of rangeland quality assessment and monitoring at landscape level among borana herders of northern Kenya

Livestock-based knowledge of rangeland quality assessment and monitoring at landscape level among borana herders of northern Kenya

Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

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