One-Size Does Not Fit All—A Networked Approach to Community-Based Monitoring in Large River Basins
| Autor: | Mike Tollis, Sharon Peter, Joseph Tsannie, Kristin Hynes, Vera Nicholson, Brenda Parlee, Mike Low, Trevor C. Lantz, Herman Michell, J.D. Storr, Cleo Reece, Corinne Porter, Lana Lowe, Melody Lepine, Tracy Howlett, Diane Giroux, Kevin Ahkimnachie, Lauren J. King, Art Napoleon, Deb Simmons, Henry P. Huntington, Joella Hogan, Sarah I. Lord, Jen Lam, Elaine Maloney, Bruce Maclean, Fikret Berkes, Leon Andrew, Jeanette Lockhart |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Canada
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Environmental change Geography Planning and Development Participatory monitoring TJ807-830 Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Indigenous Renewable energy sources Indigenous knowledge Community-based monitoring GE1-350 Traditional knowledge Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Amazon rainforest Corporate governance Mackenzie River Basin watersheds Building and Construction environmental change indicators Environmental sciences Geography community-based monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 7400, p 7400 (2021) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 13 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Monitoring methods based on Indigenous knowledge have the potential to contribute to our understanding of large watersheds. Research in large, complex, and dynamic ecosystems suggests a participatory approach to monitoring—that builds on the diverse knowledges, practices, and beliefs of local people—can yield more meaningful outcomes than a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Here we share the results of 12 community-based, participatory monitoring projects led by Indigenous governments and organizations in the Mackenzie River Basin (2015–2018). Specifically, we present and compare the indicators and monitoring methods developed by each of these community-based cases to demonstrate the specificity of place, culture, and context. A scalar analysis of these results suggests that the combination of core (common) indicators used across the basin, coupled with others that are meaningful at local level, create a methodological bricolage—a mix of tools, methods, and rules-in-use that are fit together. Our findings, along with those of sister projects in two other major watersheds (Amazon, Mekong), confront assumptions that Indigenous-led community-based monitoring efforts are too local to offer insights about large-scale systems. In summary, a networked approach to community-based monitoring that can simultaneously engage with local- and watershed-level questions of social and ecological change can address gaps in knowledge. Such an approach can create both practices and outcomes that are useful to local peoples as well as to those engaged in basin-wide governance. |
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