Indigenous Mapping for Integrating Traditional Knowledge to Enhance Community–Based Vegetation Management and Conservation: The Kumeyaay Basket Weavers of San José de la Zorra, México
| Autor: | Ricardo Eaton-González, Claudia Leyva-Aguilera, Michael Wilken-Robertson, Jorge Andrade-Sánchez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:G1-922 010501 environmental sciences Agrarian reform 01 natural sciences Indigenous participatory mapping Knowledge integration Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) qualitative analysis Computers in Earth Sciences Traditional knowledge Natural resource management Empowerment Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common transdisciplinary research Community-based management Natural resource 010601 ecology Geography knowledge dialog lcsh:Geography (General) community-based management |
| Zdroj: | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Volume 10 Issue 3 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 10, Iss 124, p 124 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2220-9964 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijgi10030124 |
| Popis: | Kumeyaay people were historically hunter-gatherers with a strong relationship with their natural resources. Due to various processes, such as missionary colonization, agrarian reform, and the definition of the border between the USA and Mexico in 1838, the Indigenous populations faced reduced mobility within their territory and modified their lifestyles, highly related to landscape and plants. One of their strong traditional practices associated with plant resources, basket-making, has likewise changed. Today, this activity is one of the most important sources of income for many of the families in the community. Nevertheless, this is being now threatened by the loss of vegetation cover, from which they obtain primary basket-making material and is now far from being environmentally and economically sustainable. An interdisciplinary group is addressing this problem from a multidisciplinary perspective and through a participatory methodological approach based on community mapping to enable the integration of local and scientific knowledge and to create vegetation management and conservation actions. Community-based Indigenous mapping has proven to be a powerful tool for the integration of traditional knowledge and its various dimensions, and knowledge integration between traditional and scientific knowledge has been successful. The project allowed for plant population analysis and adequate decision-making regarding natural resources management and conservation. The methods developed in this research represent significant progress in the development of internal capacities and empowerment of the community. |
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