Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park

Robinson, Catherine; MacDonald, Jennifer; Perry, Justin C.; Nadji, Jonathan; Nadji, Sean; McCartney, Serena; Taylor, Annie; Hunter, Fred M.; Cooper, Dennis; Moyle, Feach; Drummond, Alice; Borovac, Christian; Bodegraven, Steven van; Gilfedder, Mat; Setterfield, Samantha A.; Douglas, Michael E.

doi:10.5751/es-13747-270436

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“…Indigenous local knowledge is often produced and validated in ways that do not match academic standards, as reflected in the fishers' experiential and informally shared knowledge about spawning periods, which may lack a robust cultural consensus within a fishing community. Rather than simply assuming that ILK provides additional data for already established frameworks and models of fisheries management, we therefore argue for the need to develop a transdisciplinary intercultural approach (Rist and Dahdouh-Guebas 2006) that takes knowledge co-production seriously (e.g., Tengö et al 2017, Norström et al 2020, Chambers et al 2021, Robinson et al 2022, as well as both synergies and tensions between different knowledge systems (Ludwig 2016, Ludwig and Poliseli 2018, Ludwig and El-Hani 2020. Such a transdisciplinary intercultural approach recognizes that environmental policy needs to be grounded in epistemic diversity while critically reflecting on the challenges of transdisciplinary practices in governance.…”

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Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

Renck¹,

Ludwig²,

Bollettin³

et al. 2023

E&S

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Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scientists and policy makers. In the present paper, we tackle this issue by discussing laws regarding closed fishing seasons, which are part of the Brazilian environmental policies for protecting marine fauna, from the perspective of artisanal fishers' knowledge. In Brazil, these laws are typically based on governmental decisions (i.e., by administrative organizations and researchers acting as consultants) without taking fishers' knowledge into account. Through semistructured interviews with traditional experts of fishing villages situated along the northeast coast of Brazil, we aimed to investigate their knowledge of fish reproductive periods and analyze how it is related to the closed seasons at work in their region. We found an exact agreement between fishers' knowledge and closed season regulations on the reproductive period of the mangrove crab (Ucides cordatus), but a conflict regarding the reproductive period of two snook species and four species of shrimps. We highlight the potential of fishers' knowledge contributions to environmental regulations and we also explore three challenges of incorporating epistemic diversity in environmental policy. We conclude by advocating for a reflexive transdisciplinarity that highlights the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge while critically reflecting on the methodological and political challenges of transdisciplinary practices.

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Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

Renck¹,

Ludwig²,

Bollettin³

et al. 2023

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“…Recently, significant attention has been given to how artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized by society, and for this article's purposes, how it can be integrated into ecological restoration (Castro et al 2021; Yin et al 2021; Robinson et al 2022). In this article, we explore ways that AI can be integrated as an additional tool by stakeholders in the planning and implementation processes involved in ecological restoration projects but contend that it is vital to recognize that AI tools, like all tools, are embedded with values and agency by their designers—which can alter intended outcomes.…”

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Ecological restoration and artificial intelligence: whose values inform a project?

Woodrich,

Pape

2024

Restoration Ecology

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Significant attention has been given to how artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized by society and in scientific fields in recent years. This article explores how AI tools utilized in various fields have been and can be applied to ecological restoration projects, their affiliated benefits and drawbacks, and what those tools depend on. While restoration efforts can benefit from such tools, individual and institutional values primarily drive project goals. As such, AI tools are constrained in their usefulness in restoration because they can only factor in value‐oriented variables to a certain degree. In fact, certain restoration practices may be so value‐laden that the use of AI may bias a restoration project in a manner which could lead to undesired outcomes. This article posits that AI can be integrated into ecological restoration projects, but that practitioners (and academics) should recognize the complexity of what AI tools are before they use them.

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Place-based data justice practices for collaborative conservation research: A critical review

Robinson,

Urzedo,

Macdonald

et al. 2023

Biological Conservation

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Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu National Park

Abstract: Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia's joint managed Kakadu National Park. Ecology and Society 27(4):36.

Cited by 4 publications

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Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

Ecological restoration and artificial intelligence: whose values inform a project?

Place-based data justice practices for collaborative conservation research: A critical review

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