Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin

Wilson, Nicole J.; Mutter, E. A.; Inkster, Jody; Satterfield, Terre

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.01.020

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“…Numerous studies have shown that data obtained from long-term monitoring is often fragmented or insufficient in many regions in Canada, such that its usefulness in guiding decisions about cumulative environmental effects is compromised, which makes it unreliable [43,44]. Institutional arrangements to support project monitoring are important since its absence leads to failure to effectively protect the general environment [42,44]. Effective dialogue among Indigenous communities and stakeholders would greatly help to build trust and clear the way for successful project monitoring.…”

Section: Water Security As Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wilson et al, [44] recommend that focusing on an Indigenous community-based monitoring program that protects the waters and lands within Indigenous communities will help to generate reliable data that is useful for decision-making and governance rooted in an understanding of stewardship and responsibility. Indigenous community-based monitoring programs focus on Indigenous people's role as "knowledge holders" but does not limit them to just gathering data.…”

Section: Water Security As Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indigenous community-based monitoring programs focus on Indigenous people's role as "knowledge holders" but does not limit them to just gathering data. However, it is a means of asserting sovereignty through the practice of stewardship and by gathering data that inform internal and external planning and decision-making [44]. Their research findings suggested that data quality and credibility, trust, legitimacy, and relevance to decision contexts are key to linking Indigenous community-based monitoring data to decision-making.…”

Section: Water Security As Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indigenous Perspectives on Water Security in Saskatchewan, Canada

Awume

Patrick

Baijius

2020

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The term “water security” continues to gain traction in water resources literature with broad application to human health, water quality, and sustainability of water supply. These western science applications focus almost exclusively on the material value of water for human uses and activities. This paper offers voice to other interpretations of water security based on semi-structured interviews with Indigenous participants representing varied backgrounds and communities from Saskatchewan, a Canadian prairie province. The results indicate that water security from an Indigenous perspective embraces much more than the material value of water. Five themes emerged from this research that speak to a more holistic framing of water security to include water as a life form, water and the spirit world, women as water-keepers, water and human ethics, and water in Indigenous culture. This broader interpretation provides a more nuanced understanding of water security, which serves to enrich the water security narrative while educating western science.

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Indigenous Perspectives on Water Security in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Patrick

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2020

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“…Given the history of past government-led programs that were more authoritative and less participatory in nature, incentive-based programs can be understood as an exercise of power or social control [45]. Importance has been and should continue to be placed on community engagement in a way that promotes legitimacy, the program's resilience and adaptive capacity in the long run [10,46,47], and the transformation of power relations over time [48]. It is, therefore, important that external actors understand and engage with the priorities of local communities [49][50][51].…”

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Aiming for Sustainability and Scalability: Community Engagement in Forest Payment Schemes

Kowler

Pratihast

Arco

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Community-based forest monitoring is seen as a way both to improve community engagement and participation in national environmental payment schemes and climate mitigation priorities and to implement reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). There is a strong assumption among community-based monitoring advocates that community monitoring is a desirable approach. However, it is unclear why community members would want to participate in their own surveillance or be involved in a program likely to limit livelihood uses of forest areas and possibly even sanction them based on the data provided. This paper explores these issues by examining three communities involved in Peru's Conditional Direct Transfer Program, in which indigenous communities are compensated for protecting communal forests through various mechanisms, including forest monitoring. The case studies focus specifically on communities that received smartphones and were trained in their use for monitoring. The results affirm the importance that benefits outweigh the costs of local participation to sustain motivation. They also point to key factors supporting the legitimacy of the program, specifically to overcome historical tensions between the state and indigenous communities. These include the nature of engagement by program implementers and the importance of building trust over time.

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“…Community-based resource monitoring depends on the trust, reciprocity, and inclusivity of indigenous peoples in decision-making and management [65,66]. Examining the patterns of indigenous knowledge and relationships to freshwater systems across Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, and North America, scholars use the term "cultural keystone species" as a focal point to better understand holistic freshwater-ecosystem processes through the interconnectedness of people to these ecosystems [67].…”

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Nā Kilo ʻĀina: Visions of Biocultural Restoration through Indigenous Relationships between People and Place

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Within the realm of multifaceted biocultural approaches to restoring resource abundance, it is increasingly clear that resource-management strategies must account for equitable outcomes rooted in an understanding that biological and social-ecological systems are one. Here, we present a case study of the Nā Kilo aĀ ina Program (NKA)-one approach to confront today's complex social, cultural, and biological management challenges through the lens of biocultural monitoring, community engagement, and capacity building. Through a series of initiatives, including Huli a Ia, Pilinakai, Annual Nohona Camps, and Kūka a i Laulaha International Exchange Program, NKA aims to empower communities to strengthen reciprocal pilina (relationships) between people and place, and to better understand the realistic social, cultural, and ecological needs to support aā ina momona, a state of thriving, abundant and productive people and places. After 10 years of implementation, NKA has established partnerships with communities, state/federal agencies, and local schools across the Hawaiian Islands to address broader social and cultural behavior changes needed to improve resource management. Ultimately, NKA creates a platform to innovate local management strategies and provides key contributions to guiding broader indigenous-driven approaches to conservation that restore and support resilient social-ecological systems.

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Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin

Cited by 91 publications

References 21 publications

Indigenous Perspectives on Water Security in Saskatchewan, Canada

Indigenous Perspectives on Water Security in Saskatchewan, Canada

Aiming for Sustainability and Scalability: Community Engagement in Forest Payment Schemes

Nā Kilo ʻĀina: Visions of Biocultural Restoration through Indigenous Relationships between People and Place

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