How can local and traditional knowledge be effectively incorporated into international assessments?

摘要

There have been persistent calls for greater use of local and traditional or indigenous knowledge alongside conventional scientific knowledge in making decisions about biodiversity and natural resources (Fazey et al, 2006; Raymond et al., 2010). Yet such calls are rarely reflected in practice. Different types of knowledge have not been well integrated into national and international assessment exercises, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Turnhout, 2012), all of which focus almost exclusively on conventional scientific knowledge.