Incorporación de sistemas de conocimientos locales y tradicionales: nuevos puntos de vista para los servicios ecosistémicos y las colaboraciones transdisciplinarias

The project investigates governance modalities that incorporate local and traditional knowledge to improve biodiversity conservation. Using a 'decentralizing academia' approach, the team established Communities of Practice Collaborators (CCP) to foster co-learning between academics, farmers, and local knowledge keepers. The research identifies plurality, power asymmetries, and conflict as key facilitators or barriers to conservation and is producing a collaborative book featuring local voices from Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay.

• Collaborative conservation efforts are often hindered by power imbalances that marginalize indigenous and local knowledge, creating a gap between national biodiversity strategies (such as the NBSAPs) and local or regional ecosystem management initiatives.
• The project implemented 'Communities of Practice Collaborators' (CCP), an innovative co-learning model based on 'decentralizing academia' that integrates diverse knowledge forms beyond traditional scientific disciplines and emphasizes equitable relationships between researchers, farmers, and local knowledge keepers.
• Plurality, power asymmetries, and conflict have been identified as the three primary facilitators or barriers to biodiversity conservation across different governance modalities, though a systematic literature review indicates that scholars often fail to provide clear conceptual or theoretical definitions of these terms.
• To center local voices in biodiversity conservation, the project invited community members to contribute to a forthcoming book titled 'Converging Boundaries', resulting in 25 chapter proposals from Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay consisting of testimonies, poems, autobiographies, and photo-narratives.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Incorporación de sistemas de conocimientos locales y tradicionales: nuevos puntos de vista para los servicios ecosistémicos y las colaboraciones transdisciplinarias. https://iai.int/pdf/es/ProjectBrief_072_es_merged.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Incorporación de sistemas de conocimientos locales y tradicionales: nuevos puntos de vista para los servicios ecosistémicos y las colaboraciones transdisciplinarias. n.d. https://iai.int/pdf/es/ProjectBrief_072_es_merged.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndincorporacin, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Incorporación de sistemas de conocimientos locales y tradicionales: nuevos puntos de vista para los servicios ecosistémicos y las colaboraciones transdisciplinarias}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://iai.int/pdf/es/ProjectBrief_072_es_merged.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }