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1 A Multiple Evidence Base approach to connecting diverse knowledge systems Dialogues across knowledege systems in support of sustainable governance of biodiversity Pernilla Malmer Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) [email protected] A centre with: IPBES 2 10 December 2013

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A Multiple Evidence Base approach to connecting diverse knowledge systems

Dialogues across knowledege systems in support of sustainable governance of biodiversity

Pernilla MalmerStockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)

[email protected]

Acentre with:

IPBES 2 10 December 2013

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Why?Point of departure for a Multiple Evidence Base 

• Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems are different manifestations of valid and useful knowledge systems…

• …which generate complementary evidence for interpreting conditions, change, trajectories, and causal relationships relevant to the sustainable governance of ecosystems and biodiversity.

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A continuing dialogue process

• Jokkmokk June 2011• Guna Yala dialogue April 2012• CBD COP 11 2012 • Sub‐Global Assessment Network meeting, 

Stellenbosch South Africa November 2012• Community based monitoring and 

Information Systems(CBMIS) workshops in the Phillipines and Bonn spring 2013

• Vilm workshop on connecting knowldgesystems in IPBES, April 2013 

• World Indigenous Network Conference, Australia, May 2013

• CBD WG 8(j) 8 and SBSTTA17 in Montreal, October 2013

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Knowledge for the 21st CenturyIndigenous knowledge, traditional knowledge, science and 

connecting diverse knowledge systems Usdub, Guna Yala, Panama 10 – 13 April 2012 

• Validation• Documentation• Sharing of knowledge

• Co‐production of knowledge

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Guna Yala dialogue – key factors for successful exchange

Essential actitudes:

• Trust• Respect• Resiprocity• Equity• Transparency

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Three general approaches to exchangebetween knowledge systems

Integration:Components of one knowledge systems 

incorporated into another through a validation process

Parallell approaches:Placing knowledge systems next to each other, 

using separate validation mechanisms and assesing insights. 

Co‐production of knowledge: Engaging in mutual processes of knowledge 

generation

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Multiple Evidence Base approach emphasize:

• Complementarityof knowledge systems

• Letting each knowledge system speak for itself

• Respecting mechanisms within each system to evaluate knowledge

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Participatory plantbreeding

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Reindeer herding as indicatorfor the Sápmi cultural landscape

Collaborative study between Swedish Biodiversity Centre and the Saami Parliament 2013

Foto. Petter Sjaggo

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Dictates InfluencesLandscape

Form together

Reindeer and the herder

Biotopes, Habitats and grazing‐ground

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Reindeer grazing increases biodiversity

• Grazing is variable in time and space• Area of shrubs and bushes is increasing due to less grazing and 

trampling of reindeer• Grazing can lower the alpine tree‐line• Grazing gives less competitive organisms the opportunity to establish 

and survive on mountain meadows or grass heaths

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Spheres of knowledge about the reindeer and its landscape

Academics and Universities

The saamicommunities 

and  knowledge holders 

GovernmentPractitioners

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The Multiple Evidence Base in an assessment process connecting indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems   

Phase 1                                   Phase 2                                        Phase 3  

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Thank you!

Acentre with:

Pernilla Malmer

[email protected]