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Indigenous guardians as an emerging approach to indigenous environmental governance
- Source :
- Conservation Biology
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Over the past 3 decades, indigenous guardian programs (also known as indigenous rangers or watchmen) have emerged as an institution for indigenous governments to engage in collaborative environmental governance. Using a systematic review of peer‐reviewed literature for research conducted in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa‐New Zealand, and the United States, we sought to characterize the emergence of indigenous guardians in the literature and explore whether guardian approaches are representative of Indigenous approaches to environmental governance. Using a multistep relevance‐screening method, we reviewed 83 articles published since 1995, that report on, critique, or comment on Indigenous guardians. Our findings indicated that most articles on the topic were published in the last decade (88%), focused on Australia (65%), and were in a social science discipline (53%). The lead author of the majority of articles was an academic, although only half of the articles included an indigenous scholar or member of an indigenous group or organization as a coauthor. Finally, 11 articles were on research of guardian programs that were locally led and only 5 exemplified indigenous governance, based on 2 well‐known community‐based monitoring typologies. Our findings indicate that more research is required to understand the implications of current guardian programs for indigenous self‐determination, particularly when such programs are embedded in a broader western environmental governance structure.<br />Article impact statement: Since 2010, the number of peer‐reviewed articles on indigenous guardians has risen substantially, signaling their vital role in conservation.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Canada
Conservation of Natural Resources
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Reviews
Review
Public administration
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Indigenous
environmental management
Political science
Institution
Humans
indigenous watchmen
pueblos indígenas
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
indigenous peoples
self‐determination
Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Ecology
manejo ambiental
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Corporate governance
Australia
Lead author
15. Life on land
vigilantes indígenas
16. Peace & justice
United States
Environmental Policy
Environmental governance
Guardian
autodeterminación
indigenous rangers
guardias indígenas
New Zealand
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15231739 and 08888892
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Conservation Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e93f6957509b819170b969dcb2e8a4af