Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region
Those involved in sustainability debates on developmental pathways concur in the synergistic potential of integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Western scientific approaches. Transhumant pastoralism is a livelihood strategy adapted to spatiotemporal environmental variability in many...
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| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7072 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ruso.12268 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12268 |
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| author | Easdale, Marcos Horacio Perez Leon, Natalia Aguiar, Martín Roberto |
| author_browse | Aguiar, Martín Roberto Easdale, Marcos Horacio Perez Leon, Natalia |
| author_facet | Easdale, Marcos Horacio Perez Leon, Natalia Aguiar, Martín Roberto |
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| description | Those involved in sustainability debates on developmental pathways concur in the synergistic potential of integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Western scientific approaches. Transhumant pastoralism is a livelihood strategy adapted to spatiotemporal environmental variability in many mountainous and arid regions worldwide. This form of livelihood is based on a mobile logic that is increasingly threatened by novel lifestyles promoted from a Western mind-set and by climate change. The aim of this article is to identify and characterize the different perspectives of environmental and social issues in a pastoral region and their association with labor collaboration among extension agents, framed in an institutional action. We tackled the inquiry about viewpoints with Q methodology and related it to regional problems, alternative solutions, and future development pathways for transhumant pastoralism and landscape management in northwest Patagonia. We identified six perspectives and characterized them with their
topological position in the social network. Mediating positions registered the highest network centrality of labor collaborations among agents, whereas more dominant perspectives emphasizing TEK or scientific knowledge registered intermediate centrality. There was consensus on the need for sustainable developmental options, but the emphasis on combining knowledge still needs convergent solutions. |
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| spelling | INTA70722020-04-13T17:22:20Z Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region Easdale, Marcos Horacio Perez Leon, Natalia Aguiar, Martín Roberto Trashumancia Pastoralismo Desarrollo Rural Cambio Climático Adaptación al Cambio Climático Transhumance Pastoralism Rural Development Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Región Patagónica Those involved in sustainability debates on developmental pathways concur in the synergistic potential of integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Western scientific approaches. Transhumant pastoralism is a livelihood strategy adapted to spatiotemporal environmental variability in many mountainous and arid regions worldwide. This form of livelihood is based on a mobile logic that is increasingly threatened by novel lifestyles promoted from a Western mind-set and by climate change. The aim of this article is to identify and characterize the different perspectives of environmental and social issues in a pastoral region and their association with labor collaboration among extension agents, framed in an institutional action. We tackled the inquiry about viewpoints with Q methodology and related it to regional problems, alternative solutions, and future development pathways for transhumant pastoralism and landscape management in northwest Patagonia. We identified six perspectives and characterized them with their topological position in the social network. Mediating positions registered the highest network centrality of labor collaborations among agents, whereas more dominant perspectives emphasizing TEK or scientific knowledge registered intermediate centrality. There was consensus on the need for sustainable developmental options, but the emphasis on combining knowledge still needs convergent solutions. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche Fil: Easdale, Marcos Horacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Area Desarrollo Rural. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Perez Leon, Natalia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Aguiar, Martín Roberto. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Ecología. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina 2020-04-13T15:00:54Z 2020-04-13T15:00:54Z 2020-03 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7072 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ruso.12268 0036-0112 1549-0831 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12268 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Wiley Online Library Rural Sociology 85 (1) : 57-84 (March 2020) |
| spellingShingle | Trashumancia Pastoralismo Desarrollo Rural Cambio Climático Adaptación al Cambio Climático Transhumance Pastoralism Rural Development Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Región Patagónica Easdale, Marcos Horacio Perez Leon, Natalia Aguiar, Martín Roberto Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title | Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title_full | Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title_fullStr | Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title_short | Strains in Sustainability Debates: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science through the Lens of Extension Agents in a Pastoral Region |
| title_sort | strains in sustainability debates traditional ecological knowledge and western science through the lens of extension agents in a pastoral region |
| topic | Trashumancia Pastoralismo Desarrollo Rural Cambio Climático Adaptación al Cambio Climático Transhumance Pastoralism Rural Development Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Región Patagónica |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7072 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ruso.12268 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12268 |
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