Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field

From a natural sciences perspective, efforts directed at the conservation of biodiversity are based upon what is known as conservation biology. Given its epistemological assumptions, conservation biology faces obstacles in the incorporation of wisdom originating in local ecological knowledge, that w...

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Main Author: Jorje Ignacio Zalles
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Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2017-09-01
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Online Access:http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2587
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description From a natural sciences perspective, efforts directed at the conservation of biodiversity are based upon what is known as conservation biology. Given its epistemological assumptions, conservation biology faces obstacles in the incorporation of wisdom originating in local ecological knowledge, that which a local population has gained about the local environment which it is surrounded by and due to its direct contact with this local environment, instead of the result of a product of a positivist scientific inquiry. Post-normal science has emerged in recent decades as an alternative for public management that aims to complement the search for knowledge by means of empirical approaches through the inclusion of understandings based on the everyday experiences and the subjective interpretation of natural phenomena, transcending the compartmentalization associated with scientific traditions born out of modernity. This article discusses the integration of local ecological knowledge and conservation biology from the perspective of post normal science, illustrating different forms of intercultural communication that would make the requisite dialogue of knowledges possible.
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spelling doaj-art-1fbfb03c093a41eeafaf7bf3b324f9e62025-02-02T12:51:05ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos2224-69831390-12492017-09-01215920522410.17141/iconos.59.2017.2587Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural FieldJorje Ignacio Zalles 0Universidad San Francisco de Quito, EcuadorFrom a natural sciences perspective, efforts directed at the conservation of biodiversity are based upon what is known as conservation biology. Given its epistemological assumptions, conservation biology faces obstacles in the incorporation of wisdom originating in local ecological knowledge, that which a local population has gained about the local environment which it is surrounded by and due to its direct contact with this local environment, instead of the result of a product of a positivist scientific inquiry. Post-normal science has emerged in recent decades as an alternative for public management that aims to complement the search for knowledge by means of empirical approaches through the inclusion of understandings based on the everyday experiences and the subjective interpretation of natural phenomena, transcending the compartmentalization associated with scientific traditions born out of modernity. This article discusses the integration of local ecological knowledge and conservation biology from the perspective of post normal science, illustrating different forms of intercultural communication that would make the requisite dialogue of knowledges possible.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2587Local ecological knowledgeconservation biologypost-normal scienceinter-culturalismdialogue of knowledges
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
Íconos
Local ecological knowledge
conservation biology
post-normal science
inter-culturalism
dialogue of knowledges
title Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
title_full Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
title_fullStr Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
title_full_unstemmed Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
title_short Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field
title_sort local ecological knowledge and biological conservation post normal science as an intercultural field
topic Local ecological knowledge
conservation biology
post-normal science
inter-culturalism
dialogue of knowledges
url http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2587
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