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Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability : The Amazonian SISA policy and the Kaxinawá Indigenous people case
- Source :
- Environmental Science and Policy, 112, 1-9, Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA-Alice), Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), instacron:EMBRAPA, Environmental Science and Policy 112 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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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
- Subjects :
- 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)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14629011
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Science and Policy, 112, 1-9, Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA-Alice), Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), instacron:EMBRAPA, Environmental Science and Policy 112 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eb88a41bd55bc32d89b19fc4f8c1d9e5