School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 Jul 17;378(1881):20220196. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0196. Epub 2023 May 29.
With climate, biodiversity and inequity crises squarely upon us, never has there been a more pressing time to rethink how we conceptualize, understand and manage our relationship with Earth's biodiversity. Here, we describe governance principles of 17 Indigenous Nations from the Northwest Coast of North America used to understand and steward relationships among all components of nature, including humans. We then chart the colonial origins of biodiversity science and use the complex case of sea otter recovery to illuminate how ancestral governance principles can be mobilized to characterize, manage and restore biodiversity in more inclusive, integrative and equitable ways. To enhance environmental sustainability, resilience and social justice amid today's crises, we need to broaden who benefits from and participates in the sciences of biodiversity by expanding the values and methodologies that shape such initiatives. In practice, biodiversity conservation and natural resource management need to shift from centralized, siloed approaches to those that can accommodate plurality in values, objectives, governance systems, legal traditions and ways of knowing. In doing so, developing solutions to our planetary crises becomes a shared responsibility. This article is part of the theme issue 'Detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change: needs, gaps and solutions'.
随着气候、生物多样性和不平等危机的迫近，我们从未有过如此紧迫的时刻来重新思考我们如何概念化、理解和管理我们与地球生物多样性的关系。在这里，我们描述了北美西北海岸的 17 个原住民民族用来理解和管理自然界所有组成部分（包括人类）之间关系的治理原则。然后，我们追溯了生物多样性科学的殖民起源，并利用海獭恢复的复杂案例来阐明如何调动祖传的治理原则，以更具包容性、综合性和公平性的方式描述、管理和恢复生物多样性。为了在当今的危机中增强环境可持续性、弹性和社会正义，我们需要通过扩大塑造此类举措的价值观和方法，扩大从生物多样性科学中受益和参与的人群。实际上，生物多样性保护和自然资源管理需要从集中的、孤立的方法转变为能够容纳价值观、目标、治理系统、法律传统和认知方式多样性的方法。通过这样做，解决我们的行星危机就成为了共同的责任。本文是主题为“检测和归因生物多样性变化的原因：需求、差距和解决方案”的一部分。
