Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews

José Tomás Ibarra; Julián Caviedes; Carla Marchant; Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel; Silvia Navarro-Manquilef; Fausto O Sarmiento

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.004

Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews

Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Nov;38(11):1005-1009. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.004. Epub 2023 Aug 12.

Authors

José Tomás Ibarra¹, Julián Caviedes², Carla Marchant³, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel⁴, Silvia Navarro-Manquilef⁵, Fausto O Sarmiento⁶

Affiliations

¹ ECOS (Ecosystem-Complexity-Society) Co-Laboratory, Center for Local Development (CEDEL) and Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR), Villarrica Campus, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Villarrica, Chile; Department of Ecosystems and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Systems & Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC), Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams, Chile. Electronic address: jtibarra@uc.cl.
² ECOS (Ecosystem-Complexity-Society) Co-Laboratory, Center for Local Development (CEDEL) and Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR), Villarrica Campus, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Villarrica, Chile; Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Laboratory of Territorial Studies (LabT), Institute of Environmental and Evolutionary Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
⁴ Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Comunidad Huampoe, Escuela Loncofilo, Curarrehue, Wallmapu.
⁶ Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

PMID: 37574394
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.004

Abstract

Addressing the shocks of global crises requires that scientists, policymakers, and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities work together to enable communities to withstand and adapt to disturbances. On the basis of our experiences in the Andes, we propose the '10-step cycle of transdisciplinarity' for designing projects to build social-ecological resilience in mountains.

Keywords: Andes; biocultural diversity; climate change; montology; public policy; social-ecological systems; sustainability.