C. Julián Idrobo

Government of British Columbia, Canada · Ministry of Agriculture

Indigenous-driven and community-partnered research projects seeking to develop salient, legitimate, and credible knowledge bases for environmental decision-making require a multiple knowledge systems approach. When involving partners in addition to communities, diverging perspectives and priorities may arise, making the pathways to engaging in prin...

We present a perspective on how the Eeyou (James Bay Cree) from Eeyou Istchee (Eastern James Bay, Québec) understand the transformation of their traditional fall goose hunt system as a consequence of social and environmental changes across marine and terrestrial ecosystems with drivers operating at the local, regional and continental scales. Eeyou...

Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is one of the main waterfowl species harvested by Cree hunters in James Bay, Canada. Land users who hunt geese along coastal Eeyou Istchee (Eastern James Bay, Quebec) report that they are now much less successful in harvesting sub-arctic breeding geese (B. c. interior) than in the 1980s, especially during the fall h...

Knowledge production in the context of the emerging Blue Economy is shrouded by colonial and extractivist agendas that further reinforce previously established power relations and determine the theories and methodologies behind knowledge production. Transdisciplinary approaches that include collaborative, community-based and participatory action re...

Debate about what proportion of the Earth to protect often overshadows the question of how nature should be conserved and by whom. We present a systematic review and narrative synthesis of 169 publications investigating how different forms of governance influence conservation outcomes, paying particular attention to the role played by Indigenous pe...

The Colombian government’s proposal for the Tribugá Port project puts in evidence the juxtaposition of dominant approaches to development and place-based well-being strategies of local communities. The extension of the national maritime infrastructure network follows mainstream development narratives centered around the spatial reorganization and e...

Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing recognition for seagrasses' contribution to the functioning of nearshore ecosystems and climate change mitigation. Nevertheless, seagrass ecosystems have been deteriorating globally at an accelerating rate during recent decades. In 2017, research into the condition of eelgrass (Zostera marina)...

While social and political movements are the scale of action most often identified with food sovereignty-related struggles, everyday provisioning practices are critical for sustaining the distinctiveness and relative autonomy of localised food systems. We examine gendered provisioning in a Colombian, Afro-descendent community as a case study of how...

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Globalised change is driving transitions in small-scale tropical fisheries away from natural resource-based livelihoods towards wage labour that involves employment in the service industry and outmigration from centres of origin. In this paper, we employ a social wellbeing lens to examine livelihood transitions from the perspective of the inhabitan...

La violencia estructural que la región del Pacífico colombiano ha vivido, así como los altos índices de pobreza, desigualdad y discriminación hace que sea impostergable que el desarrollo de la región y su planeación aborden directamente estas problemáticas partiendo no solo de las necesidades de sus habitantes, sino también de sus conocimientos y v...

Small-scale coastal communities around the globe are dealing with environmental change associated with the fisheries crisis, integration with global markets and climate change. Understanding how coastal people adapt to these challenges is not only a theoretical but also a practical concern that relates to the continuity of ways of life associated w...

A photo essay, "Clay Pots in Bolivian Campesino Culinary Practice: Cooking with Earth and Smoke", published as an Amuse Bouche in Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture.

We introduce everyday creativity as an approach to understanding the role of agency in resilience thinking and as a conceptual lens through which to view the ways that people respond to globalized change. Our focus is on the use of biodiversity in crafting responses within food systems of rural and remote communities. We propose a conceptual framew...

This guide provides an overview of our case study methodology.

Understanding nature as an outcome of organising discourses generated through relative experiences of our surroundings has been the groundwork of a political ecology that deals with the distribution of environmental justice among people with different degrees of power. In this paper, we examine how the environmental legislation and the tourism indu...

The interrelationships between people and nature are complex, and take shape through appropriation, consumption, transformation and exchange. Likewise, aesthetics intertwine material and symbolic values, which are further nested in local perception and cultural processes. Understanding these relationships therefore requires not only the use and int...

Small-scale fishers in coastal areas of Brazil face numerous challenges, including marginalization by large-scale industrial operations, poor market access, lack of working capital, and pressure to diversify their livelihood base. From the perspective of adaptive capacity, this investigation was carried out in three communities in the municipality...

Primate populations have declined and disappeared from many localities of the Colombian Andes as a result of habitat loss and hunting pressure. The original forest cover of this mountainous region has been cleared by 70%, even though there has been a recent recovery of the area. Additionally, hunting practices have extirpated populations from other...

2013. Anishinaabe adaptation to environmental change in northwestern Ontario: a case study in knowledge coproduction for nontimber forest products. Ecology and Society 18(4): ABSTRACT. Interaction, negotiation, and sharing knowledge are at the heart of indigenous response to global environmental change. We consider Anishinaabe efforts to devise new...

New approaches for sustainable development in rural indigenous and local communities have emerged that are rooted in their distinct cultural identities and claims for greater control over land, development and identity. One such approach is that of biocultural heritage, which emerged out of work to document biocultural diversity undertaken in part...

This paper examines the adoption of a technology to appropriate an ecologically constrained resource within the context of a restructuring fisheries sector utilising the conceptual lenses of adaptive learning and practice. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were undertaken in the coastal community of Ponta Negra, Paraty, Rio de...

When faced with a species that is seldom encountered or discussed, can local or indigenous people piece together their accumulated experience to make inferences about the ecology of that species? In this paper the Greenland shark acts as a model to study how the Inuit of southern Baffin Island are able to produce ecological knowledge. We examine ex...

In this paper, we explore the emergence of what we term 'communities of learning' within the context of natural resources and environmental management (NREM). These communi- ties reflect new forms of interaction and cooperation between NREM decision makers that bring together the unique contributions of indigenous ways of knowing alongside academic...

The diet of the Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca) has been reported to include mainly insects and occasionally fruits. We observed this species eating Andean Oak (Quercus humboldtii) catkins in the Colombian Andes. Apparently an opportunistic exploitation of a temporarily superabundant resource, this phenomenon has been reported for other wint...

Although hummingbirds exhibit marked specializations for nectar-feeding, they consume insects in order to supply fat and protein requirements. Several strategies for insect-eating in hummingbirds have been reported, with studies documenting a close relationship between these strategies and the morphology of each species. In