Expertss Perspectives on the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Wet Tropics Natural Resource Management

Gratani, Monica; Bohensky, Erin; Butler, James; Sutton, Stephen G.; Foale, Simon

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“…Some innovative research has begun to tackle intractable environmental disputes in partnership with Indigenous peoples, in order to apply their knowledge, values and perspectives, and to integrate these respectfully, equitably and constructively with other knowledge cultures [14,[17][18][19][20]. However, specific methods to map power differentials during collective learning processes remain weak [16,49].…”

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Frame Analysis: An Inclusive Stakeholder Analysis Tool for Companion Animal Management in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Kennedy

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Butler

2021

Animals

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Companion animal management in Australian remote Aboriginal communities (rAcs) is a complex problem, with multiple stakeholders involved with differing needs, knowledge, power and resources. We present our CoMM4Unity approach, a participatory systemic action research process designed to address such problems. In the first step, frame analysis is used to analyse stakeholders’ perspectives, knowledge types and power dynamics to determine their relative roles in animal management. Twenty individuals were interviewed from stakeholder groups involved in animal management in the remote, island rAc of Wurrumiyanga, Tiwi Islands. Frame analysis indicated that stakeholders aligned into four groups with distinct identity frames, knowledge types and power frames: Indigenous Locals, Indigenous Rangers, Non-Indigenous Locals and Animal Managers. All four groups shared overlapping perceptions about companion animals in Wurrumiyanga, and agreed that dog overpopulation was the primary issue. However, the groups differed in their strength of opinions about how dogs should be managed. Therefore, the situation is not one of diametrically opposing frames but more a misalignment of goals and values. Our application showed that frame analysis can reveal subtle variations in stakeholder groups’ identities, goals and values, and hence how they prioritise management measures.

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Frame Analysis: An Inclusive Stakeholder Analysis Tool for Companion Animal Management in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Kennedy

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Butler

2021

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“…An interdisciplinary approach that considers social, livelihood, food security, and ecological dimensions of the fisheries system is essential for developing participatory planning, collective actions, and knowledge exchange among stakeholders (Desta and Smithson 2010; Fischer et al 2015; Gratani 2015). Floodplain fishers' TEK is fundamental to understanding and managing the ecosystem disturbances and dynamic functions of complex floodplain ecosystems.…”

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“Everything in the Water Column is Connected”: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Floodplain Fishers of Bangladesh

Deb

2018

Journal of Ethnobiology

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With ongoing resource depletion and environmental degradation in the floodplains of Bangladesh, there is a clear need to include insights from traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in developing and implementing plans for sustainable natural resource management. The knowledge, skills, and practices related to fishing in the floodplains of Bangladesh are almost exclusively a product of the local fishers' TEK. As fishers are deeply integrated with their landscapes, they develop and refine their ecological knowledge through multi-generational sharing of experience of and knowledge about fishing and socio-cultural learnings. This study documents the knowledge of floodplain fishers of Bangladesh and examines their decision-making about harvesting as a process based on heuristic rules developed through years of curiosity experimentation, adaptive learning, and empirical and inductive reasonings. Using a participatory ethnographic approach, ten major categories of TEK systems are examined: ethno-topography of floodplains, ethno-taxonomy and aquatic productivity, diurnal and nocturnal variation patterns of fish behavior, birds and other animals, actions for aggregating fish in leased waterbodies, importance of aquatic vegetation for growth and conservation of floodplain fisheries, breeding biology tuned to complex hydrological cycles, fishers' perception of fish ulcerative syndrome, landlocked Hilsa fish from the Hakaluki haor, and fishers' views on biodiversity. This research explores the cognitive mechanisms behind fishers' decision-making about harvesting. Experienced fishers argue that if the important mother fishery sites are protected and managed through community-based institutions, floodplains of the country would benefit immensely in terms of production and biodiversity conservation.

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Expertss Perspectives on the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Wet Tropics Natural Resource Management

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Frame Analysis: An Inclusive Stakeholder Analysis Tool for Companion Animal Management in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Frame Analysis: An Inclusive Stakeholder Analysis Tool for Companion Animal Management in Remote Aboriginal Communities

“Everything in the Water Column is Connected”: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Floodplain Fishers of Bangladesh

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