Addressing Social-Ecological Systems across Temporal and Spatial Scales: a Conceptual Synthesis for Ethnobiology
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Addressing Social-Ecological Systems across Temporal and Spatial Scales: a Conceptual Synthesis for Ethnobiology Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque 1 & David Ludwig 2 & Ivanilda Soares Feitosa 1 & Joelson Moreno Brito de Moura 1,3 & Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros 4 & Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves 1 & Risoneide Henriques da Silva 1,3 & Taline Cristina da Silva 5 & Thiago Gonçalves-Souza 6 & Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior 7 Accepted: 11 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract We develop an integrative conceptual framework for addressing social-ecological systems across different spatial and temporal scales. Ethnobiologists study social-ecological systems through the lens of heterogeneous disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Despite the integrative ambitions of the field, ethnobiology often remains fragmented through research programs that emphasize different methods and scales. We propose a conceptual synthesis of three processes: (1) cognitive processing, (2) cultural transmission, and (3) biocultural evolution. We also discuss how social negotiation is embedded in them. By showing how these different processes interact across different spatial and temporal scales, we develop a framework for ethnobiological scholarship that can address complex dynamics in social-ecological systems. Keywords Ethnobiology . Natural sciences . Social science . Humanities . Cognitive processing . Cultural transmission . Biocultural evolution . Knowledge integration . Social-ecological systems
Introduction Human interactions with biota in social-ecological systems are inherently complex and develop along different spatial and temporal scales. Ethnobiology has emerged as a multidisciplinary field that studies complex dynamics in socialecological systems through heterogeneous disciplines from ecology and evolution to cognitive psychology and linguistics to cultural and environmental anthropology to Indigenous studies and political ecology. A more classic definition would
be the study of the direct interrelations between people and biota, including the fields such as ethnobotany, ethnozoology, ethnoecology, and ethnomycology. Ethnobiologists widely embrace an integrative identity of their field and ethnobiology has been hailed “as the interdiscipline with the greatest explanatory power in helping society understand biocultural complexity” (Nabhan 2016: 11). Along similar lines, Wolverton (2013) argued that “ethnobiology is well-suited to serve as an interdisciplinary umbrella for environmental scientists, conservation biologists,
Ivanilda Soares Feitosa deceased. * Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque [email protected] 1
Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Sistemas Socioecológicos (LEA), Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Knowledge Technology and Innovation (KTI) Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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