Coppice harvesting of fuelwood species on a South African common: Utilizing scientific and indigenous knowledge in community based natural resource management
Coppice harvesting of fuelwood species on a South African common: Utilizing scientific and indigenous knowledge in community based natural resource management
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10.1007/s10745-005-4144-7
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2005-06-01
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Scholes, MC
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Kaschula, SA;Twine, WE;Scholes, MC
以社区为基础的自然资源管理（CBNRM）的局限性方面的困难比较当地与科学知识类别内有界的定义'社区'进行了调查，通过一项研究，探讨当地土著知识有关的收获技术，土壤和物种类型的影响，收获后矮林反应的流行稀树草原薪材物种，在南非林波波省Bushbuckridge地区的农村居民中。评价土壤和植物的主要方面是他们的感知能力，保持降水，使降雨的驱动力，在当地的环境生产力的理解。一些土著知识显示与生物数据相一致，但总的来说，反应的差异以及土著知识和科学知识所针对的不同尺度太大，无法在地方生态指数之间进行简单的类比。土著环境知识因人们认为环境和社会退化之间存在象征性联系而得到强调。建议环境管理人员将土著知识作为系统一级自然资源管理办法的一个组成部分，将自然资源使用的生物、文化、经济和象征方面纳入更广泛的生态社会系统。这种对待土著知识的方法是作为一种替代办法提出的，而不是作为环境管理特点的简单的科学评价。
The limitations of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) with respect to the difficulties of comparing local versus scientific knowledge categories within a bounded definition of 'community' were investigated by means of a study exploring local indigenous knowledge pertaining to harvesting technique, and the impact of soil and species type on the post-harvest coppice response of popular savanna fuelwood species, among rural inhabitants of the Bushbuckridge region of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Soils and plants were evaluated chiefly in terms of their perceived ability to retain precipitation, making rainfall a driving force in local understanding of environmental productivity. Some indigenous knowledge showed an agreement with biological data, but overall the variability in responses, as well as the diverse scales at which indigenous and scientific knowledge is directed, were too great to allow for simplistic parallels between local ecological indices to be made. Indigenous environmental knowledge was underscored by the perceived symbolic link between environmental and social degradation. It is recommended that environmental managers incorporate indigenous knowledge as a component of a systems-level approach to natural resource management, where biological, cultural, economic, and symbolic aspects of natural resource use are nested within a broader ecosocial system. This approach to indigenous knowledge is offered as an alternative to the simple scientific evaluation that so often characterizes environmental management.