Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach

By Maria Tengö, Eduardo S Brondízio, T. Elmqvist, Pernilla Malmer, M. Spierenburg. Ambio, 2014

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Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners’ knowledge can provide valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and ecosystems for human well-being. There is, therefore, a great need within emerging global assessment programs, such as the IPBES and other international efforts, to develop functioning mechanisms for legitimate, transparent, and constructive ways of creating synergies across knowledge systems. We present the multiple evidence base (MEB) as an approach that proposes parallels whereby indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems are viewed to generate different manifestations of knowledge, which can generate new insights and innovations through complementarities. MEB emphasizes that evaluation of knowledge occurs primarily within rather than across knowledge systems. MEB on a particular issue creates an enriched picture of understanding, for triangulation and joint assessment of knowledge, and a starting point for further knowledge generation.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Placing Transdisciplinarity in Context: A Review of Approaches to Connect Scholars, Society and Action (2019, background): “This approach has moved the consideration of knowledge-integration products to the careful design of knowledge-integration or knowledge bridging processes [87], including co-science and coproduction of knowledge [59], dialogic networks [88], the Multiple Evidence Base (MEB) approach [89], and knowle”
Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene? Social-Ecological Systems, Resilience, and Collaborative Learning (2017, background): “It can be expressed as the multiple evidence base approach [58], emphasizing the advantages of combining different kinds of knowledge to approach problems.”
Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science (2016, background): “New initiatives are explicitly taking into account and respecting traditional and indigenous knowledge systems and cosmologies as part of stewardship efforts of landscapes and seascapes (Tengö et al. 2014).”
African community-based conservation: a systematic review of social and ecological outcomes (2018, background): “…Knowledge) into CBC projects and developing a crosscultural conservation ethic that promotes appropriate conservation incentives (Berkes 2004, Tengö et al. 2014), while acknowledging that conservation can have multiple objectives and stakeholders, which requires context-specific…”
Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach (2017, background): “People perceive and judge reality, truth, and knowledge in ways that may differ from the mainstream scientific lens [3].”
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