Chao Ouerle, Li Xiaoyue, Reyes-García Victoria
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
Ambio. 2025 Jun;54(6):932-946. doi: 10.1007/s13280-025-02131-x. Epub 2025 Feb 1.
Pastoral traditional knowledge is increasingly recognized for its inherent adaptability in addressing contemporary challenges and increasing the resilience of pastoral communities. To deepen our understanding of how this knowledge system demonstrates adaptive characteristics, we employ a functional lens to examine its dynamic nature in this systematic review. Our analysis, based on insights from 152 case studies worldwide, shows that this knowledge system has various domains and serves diverse functions, including ecological, economic, and socio-cultural functions, with further subfunctions. Ecologically, pastoral traditional knowledge predominantly enhances climate adaptation and resilience; economically, it helps maintain herd productivity and sustain livelihood support; and socio-culturally, it is crucial for preserving the cultural identity and heritage of pastoral communities. Furthermore, our findings highlight that each knowledge domain shows multifunctional characteristic. Our analysis also helps identify common functions across eight knowledge domains, each contributing to areas like sustainable resource management and climate adaptation, though to varying degrees.
畜牧传统知识因其在应对当代挑战和增强畜牧社区复原力方面所具有的内在适应性而日益受到认可。为了更深入地理解这一知识体系如何展现适应性特征，我们在本系统综述中运用功能视角来审视其动态本质。基于全球152个案例研究的见解，我们的分析表明，这一知识体系具有多个领域并发挥着多样功能，包括生态、经济和社会文化功能，还有进一步的子功能。在生态方面，畜牧传统知识主要增强气候适应能力和复原力；在经济方面，它有助于维持畜群生产力并持续提供生计支持；在社会文化方面，它对于保护畜牧社区的文化身份和遗产至关重要。此外，我们的研究结果突出表明，每个知识领域都呈现出多功能特征。我们的分析还有助于识别八个知识领域的共同功能，每个领域都对可持续资源管理和气候适应等领域有所贡献，尽管程度各异。
