Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems

Turner, Nancy J.; Berkes, Fikret; Stephenson, Janet; Dick, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/s10745-013-9591-y

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“…However, without sufficient recognition, the benefits can be lost to ill-conceived interventions that take a uniform approach and leave insufficient opportunity for local norms and practices to be maintained, as observed in many traditional fisheries in Canada and New Zealand (Turner et al 2013). …”

Section: Effectiveness and Why Autonomous Monitoring Mattersmentioning

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Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation’s blind spots

Sheil¹,

Boissière²,

Beaudoin³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Although official on-the-ground environmental monitoring is absent over much of the world, many people living in these regions observe, manage, and protect their environment. The autonomous monitoring processes associated with these activities are seldom documented and appear poorly recognized by conservation professionals. We identified monitoring activities in three villages in the Mamberamo-Foja region (Mamberamo Regency) of Papua (Indonesian New Guinea). In each village we found evidence that local monitoring contributes to effective protection and deters unregulated exploitation. Although everyone gathers observations and shares information, there are also specific roles. For example, the Ijabait hereditary guardians live at strategic sites where they control access to resource-rich lakes and tributaries along the Tariku River. Often, monitoring is combined with and thus influences other activities: for example, hunting regularly includes areas judged vulnerable to incursions by neighboring communities. We identified various examples of community members intervening to prevent and deter outsiders from exploiting resources within their territories. Enforcement of rules and assessment of resource status also help prevent local overexploitation within the communities. Clearly, local people are effective in protecting large areas in a relatively natural state. We discuss the value of these autonomous monitoring and protection processes, their neglect, and the need for explicit recognition by those concerned about these people and their environments, as well as about conservation. We highlight a potential "tragedy of the unseen sentinels" when effective local protection is undermined not because these local systems are invisible, but because no one recognizes what they see.

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Section: Effectiveness and Why Autonomous Monitoring Mattersmentioning

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Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation’s blind spots

Sheil¹,

Boissière²,

Beaudoin³

2015

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“…Community leadership has indicated that while the clam fishery generates a comparatively small amount of revenue versus other fisheries, it remains critical to the survival of the communities as their last remaining commercial fishery. Although the DFO has granted the majority of clam fishery access and withdrawal rights to aboriginal people in the Broughton Archipelago and are continuing to discuss a possible consultative clam management board, they have not yet recognized the legitimacy and effectiveness that local management has in sustaining the fisheries resource (Pinkerton and John 2008) and the importance of involving aboriginal communities in all stages of management decisions and practices (Turner et al 2013), i.e., comanagement. Management does not operate in a contextual and historical vacuum.…”

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“…Maritime resources, fishing and salmon in particular, were the backbone of the economy, society, and culture of Pacific Northwest peoples for upwards of 10,000 years (Inglis andMacDonald 1979, Muckle 2007). This fundamental social-ecological relationship held true in rural coastal BC until the final decade of the 20th century, in spite of enormous upheaval and loss occasioned by nonaboriginal settlement in the region over the past 150 years (Barman 1991, Newell 1993, Harris 2008, Turner et al 2013). …”

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Local and regional strategies for rebuilding fisheries management institutions in coastal British Columbia: what components of comanagement are most critical?

Pinkerton¹,

Angel²,

Ladell³

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“…From a social-ecological viewpoint, Kirmayer et al (2011) found that sources of resilience in an indigenous case study included the role of collective history in identity, and the existence of individual and collective agency. In some situations, actors have sufficient governance authority to shape adaptation or even transformation of an ecological system (Folke et al 2005) but in the case of indigenous societies faced by overwhelming external forces, the ability to take action is likely to be constrained by more powerful interests, and cultural resilience may suffer (Turner et al 2013). …”

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Resilience Pivots: Stability and Identity in a Social-Ecological-Cultural System

Rotarangi¹,

Stephenson²

2014

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ABSTRACT. How is cultural resilience achieved in the face of significant social and ecological change? Is resilience compatible with changed structures, functions, and feedbacks as long as identity is maintained? The concept of cultural resilience has been less explored than its older siblings ecological resilience, social resilience, and social-ecological resilience. We seek to redress the balance, drawing from resilience thinking to examine how a New Zealand Māori tribal group of landowners retained strong cultural identity and connectedness to their land despite enduring significant changes in land use, economy, tenure, and governance. The landowners negotiated radical transformations in the ecology and land use of their home lands on terms that supported matters of cultural importance. The key resilience concepts of adaptation and transformation were helpful in analyzing the trajectory of change, but fell short of representing the elements of stability that supported the cultural resilience of the landowners. The concept of resilience pivots was designed to address this conceptual gap, and to offer another heuristic to resilience thinking by focusing on stability rather than change. Resilience pivots are those elements of a resilient system that remain stable despite adaptation or even transformation of other elements of that system, and in doing so support the maintenance of the system's distinctive identity.

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Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems

Cited by 64 publications

References 22 publications

Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation’s blind spots

Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation’s blind spots

Local and regional strategies for rebuilding fisheries management institutions in coastal British Columbia: what components of comanagement are most critical?

Resilience Pivots: Stability and Identity in a Social-Ecological-Cultural System

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Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems

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Unseen sentinels: local monitoring and control in conservation&#8217;s blind spots

Local and regional strategies for rebuilding fisheries management institutions in coastal British Columbia: what components of comanagement are most critical?

Resilience Pivots: Stability and Identity in a Social-Ecological-Cultural System

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