Journal
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.38
Keywords
biocultural approaches; conservation; indicators; Pacific Islands; place-based communities; social-ecological resilience; social-ecological systems
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Funding
- The Nature Conservancy
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
- National Science Foundation [SES-1325874, 1329626, EF-1427091, 1427453, 1444184]
- Jaffe Family Foundation
- Tiffany Co. Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1427453] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1329626] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [1444184] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Resource management and conservation interventions are increasingly embracing social-ecological systems (SES) concepts. While SES frameworks recognize the connectedness of humans and nature, many fail to acknowledge the complex role of sociocultural factors in influencing people's interactions with the environment. As such, when indicators in SES frameworks are used to measure the social dimension, easy to measure, socioeconomic indicators are the norms, while more complex social and cultural indicators are rare. To develop meaningful indicators of resilience in SES we need to understand local definitions of resilience. In this paper we describe methods used in a biocultural approach to illuminate sociocultural factors that Pacific Islanders identify as important for resilient communities. We focus specifically on two dimensions of sociocultural factors, Connectedness to People and Place and Indigenous and local knowledges, skills, practices, values and worldviews, which relate to many interventions, but are not usually monitored. We offer examples of indicators that may be appropriate to measure under these dimensions. Increased use of biocultural indicators will bring additional insight on the types and combinations of indicators that work best in given contexts.
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