1. Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability : The Amazonian SISA policy and the Kaxinawá Indigenous people case
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Fernanda Ayaviri Matuk, Moacir Haverroth, Esther Turnhout, Eufran Ferreira do Amaral, Jelle Hendrik Behagel, Luuk Fleskens, Fernanda Ayaviri Matuk, Wageningen University, Esther Turnhout, Wageningen University, Luuk Fleskens, Wageningen University, EUFRAN FERREIRA DO AMARAL, CPAF-AC, MOACIR HAVERROTH, CPAF-AC, and Jelle Hendrik Behagel, Wageningen University.
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Indigenous and Local Knowledge ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,WASS ,Knowledge systems ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Science-policy interface ,Ecosystem services ,Knowledge integration ,SISA ,Bos- en Natuurbeleid ,Ethnoecology ,media_common ,Participative management ,Participation ,Public relations ,Povos indígenas ,Método participativo ,Environmental policy ,Transdisciplinarity ,Incentive ,Serviços ecossistêmicos ,Conhecimento tradicional ,Pueblos indigenas ,Ethnopedology ,REDD+ ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Servicios ecosistémicos ,Feijó (AC) ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Assessment ,Indigenous ,Forest and Nature Conservation Policy ,Acre ,Knowledge-based systems ,Adaptive co-management ,Indigenous knowledge ,Legitimacy ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,WIMEK ,business.industry ,Usability ,Planejamento Participativo ,Bodemfysica en Landbeheer ,Gestão participativa ,Soil Physics and Land Management ,Terra Indígena Kaxinawá de Nova Olinda (TIKNO) ,Amazonia Occidental ,Business ,Indigenous peoples ,Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities ,Amazônia Ocidental ,Western Amazon ,Diversity (politics) - Abstract
Environmental policies that aim to enhance nature conservation, biodiversity, and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) rely on knowledge integration and co-production processes that include both science and Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) systems. While these processes are expected to safeguard the diversity of knowledge systems, uneven power relations among participants often prevent them from achieving this which can affect the legitimacy and usability of the outcomes of these processes. Using a case study in the Acre state (Brazil), where policy practitioners implemented the REDD+policy System of Incentives for Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian Kaxinawá Nova Olinda Indigenous Land, we investigate how participants manage challenges to safeguard knowledge diversity and usability during policy assessment and planning. Our findings show how, despite the use of participatory approaches, knowledge diversity ended up being compromised because policy practitioners were insufficiently attentive to power asymmetries and their implications. This, however, did not negatively affect the usability of the knowledge outcomes. Rather than focusing on the perfection of participatory methods, we call for a practical ethics that relies on culturally and ethically sensitive dialogues and that include continuous reflection. Such reflection will enable adaptation and improvisation to be able to respond to emerging power dynamics in an adequate and timely manner, thereby ensuring both the legitimacy and the usability of the outcomes of knowledge integration and co-production. Made available in DSpace on 2020-06-11T04:05:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 27006.pdf: 5243626 bytes, checksum: e6bf394ea29683e34c75b6a1f2a1449b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020
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- 2020