Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge.

ABSTRACT: The use of Local Environmental Knowledge has been considered as an important strategy for adaptive management in the face of Global Environmental Change. However, the unprecedented rates at which global change occurs may pose a challenge to the adaptive capacity of local knowledge systems. In this paper, we use the concept of the shifting baseline syndrome to examine the limits in the adaptive capacity of the local knowledge of an indigenous society facing rapid ecosystem change. We conducted semi-structured interviews regarding perceptions of change in wildlife populations and in intergenerational transmission of knowledge amongst the Tsimane', a group of hunter-gatherers of Bolivian Amazonia (n = 300 adults in 13 villages). We found that the natural baseline against which the Tsim

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Llamazares A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4471143 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature