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DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.001 |
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of local environmental knowledge | |
Fernández-Llamazares Á.; Díaz-Reviriego I.; Luz A.C.; Cabeza M.; Pyhälä A.; Reyes-García V. | |
发表日期 | 2015 |
ISSN | 0959-3780 |
卷号 | 31 |
英文摘要 | The use of Local Environmental Knowledge has been considered as an important strategy for adaptive management in the face of Global Environmental Change. However, the unprecedented rates at which global change occurs may pose a challenge to the adaptive capacity of local knowledge systems. In this paper, we use the concept of the shifting baseline syndrome to examine the limits in the adaptive capacity of the local knowledge of an indigenous society facing rapid ecosystem change. We conducted semi-structured interviews regarding perceptions of change in wildlife populations and in intergenerational transmission of knowledge amongst the Tsimane', a group of hunter-gatherers of Bolivian Amazonia (. n=. 300 adults in 13 villages). We found that the natural baseline against which the Tsimane' measure ecosystem changes might be shifting with every generation as a result of (a) age-related differences in the perception of change and (b) a decrease in the intergenerational sharing of environmental knowledge. Such findings suggest that local knowledge systems might not change at a rate quick enough to adapt to conditions of rapid ecosystem change, hence potentially compromising the adaptive success of the entire social-ecological system. With the current pace of Global Environmental Change, widening the gap between the temporal rates of on-going ecosystem change and the timescale needed for local knowledge systems to adjust to change, efforts to tackle the shifting baseline syndrome are urgent and critical for those who aim to use Local Environmental Knowledge as a tool for adaptive management. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. |
英文关键词 | Biocultural conservation; Bolivian amazonia; Change perceptions; Generational amnesia; Shifting baseline syndrome; Tsimane' |
学科领域 | adaptive management; global change; intergenerational transfer; nature conservation; perception; questionnaire survey; traditional knowledge |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | adaptive management; global change; intergenerational transfer; nature conservation; perception; questionnaire survey; traditional knowledge |
来源期刊 | Global Environmental Change |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117547 |
作者单位 | Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Metapopulation Research Centre (MRC), Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fernández-Llamazares Á.,Díaz-Reviriego I.,Luz A.C.,et al. Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of local environmental knowledge[J],2015,31. |
APA | Fernández-Llamazares Á.,Díaz-Reviriego I.,Luz A.C.,Cabeza M.,Pyhälä A.,&Reyes-García V..(2015).Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of local environmental knowledge.Global Environmental Change,31. |
MLA | Fernández-Llamazares Á.,et al."Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of local environmental knowledge".Global Environmental Change 31(2015). |
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