Scientists stand with Standing Rock

Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

“…However, resistance to environmental injustices has also contributed to revitalizing knowledge systems, values, practices, and ties to land of Indigenous peoples, and in many cases also local communities (23,27,129). Some Indigenous communities, even in remote parts of the world, have been able to marshal international support for the defense of their rights and resources, sparking high levels of social mobilization and upscaling their struggles from the local to the global (e.g., 75,130). According to some scholars, the commonalities across all these local struggles and conflicts reflect the existence of a global movement for environmental justice (91,124).…”

Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects: The TIPNIS road in the Bolivian Amazon

“…In view of these impacts, new infrastructure projects have often sparked controversy and resistance from local to global scales (Bebbington & Bebbington, 2011;Martínez-Alier et al, 2016;Robinson, 2003). Scholars have documented many cases of contestation to infrastructure projects in the Global South (e.g., Martin, 2011;Orta-Martínez & Finer, 2010;Temper & Martinez-Alier, 2013), but also cases in Western countries, such as the opposition of the Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (USA) to the construction of an oil pipeline through their lands (Cozzarelli et al, 2017;Januchowski-Hartley, Hilborn, Crocker, & Murphy, 2016;Shrestha, Chilkoor, Wilder, Gadhamshetty, & Stone, 2017).…”

Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge

“…T o widen potential sources of relevant knowledge in use for ecosystem management, there is increasing recognition of the values and roles of knowledge-making actors beyond conventional research institutions in a range of local to global context (Bonney et al 2014 , Tengö et al 2014 , McKinley et al 2017 ). In the field of ecosystem management and conservation, there has long been advocacy for engagement with local actors along the following lines: strengthening public engagement with environmental issues and building partnerships for better governance (Visseren-Hamakers 2013 , Januchowski-Hartley et al 2016 ), assisting efforts to document and monitor biodiversity and natural resource use and practices in areas in which scientific data is meager at best (Butchart et al 2015 , Chandler et al 2017 , Camara-Leret and Dennehy 2019 ), contributing local and context specific knowledge that can improve management implementation and efficiency and also increase the capacity to transform decisions into actions that are sustained over time (Danielsen et al 2007 , 2010 ), acknowledging the rights and stakes of people directly affected by degrading ecosystems or by conservation interventions (Farhan Ferrari et al 2015 , Brondizio and Le Tourneau 2016 ), and contributing complementary and unique knowledge on ecosystem dynamic and human nature interactions over time (Gadgil et al 1993 , Gavin et al 2015 ).…”