Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management
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Journal Article
Abstract
Rights-holders, practitioners, and researchers recognize the importance of Indigenous-led resource management for building a more ecologically just world and addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, it remains unclear how to support them in a way that increases their spatial extent and ensuring impact on equitable biodiversity conservation. We address this gap by using Diffusion of Innovations theory to explain the rapid spread of an Indigenous-led network of Locally Managed Marine Areas in Fiji. We found that 74.9 percent of adopters had a previous adopter as their nearest neighbor, and that despite contrasting patterns of adoption at the island level, such patterns could be accounted for by: perceived relative advantage, village chiefly status, distance to tourism hotspots, and presence of district-level management committees, support organizations, and trust. These insights can inform the design and implementation of Indigenous-led approaches that can scale appropriately and respond to the global environmental crisis.
Date Issued
2024-01-01
Date Acceptance
2024-01-08
Citation
Global Environmental Change, 2024, 84
ISSN
0959-3780
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Global Environmental Change
Volume
84
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by nc/4.0/).
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Subjects
Adoption
ADOPTION
Bayesian model
Community-led
Conservation
CONSERVATION PRACTICES
DESIGN
DIFFUSION
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Environmental Studies
Geography
INFORMANT ACCURACY
INLA
INNOVATIONS
INSIGHTS
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
MODELS
ORGANIZATIONS
PATTERNS
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
102799
Date Publish Online
2024-01-20