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ArticleAmbio2023

Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research.

Ben Orlove, Pasang Sherpa, Neil Dawson, Ibidun Adelekan, Wilfredo Alangui, Rosario Carmona, Deborah Coen, Melissa K Nelson, Victoria Reyes-García, Jennifer Rubis and 2 more

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Article in Ambio, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Ben OrloveSchool of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY, 10027, USA. bso5@columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0489-4219
Pasang SherpaDepartment of Sociology, Trichandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 44605, Nepal.
Neil DawsonGlobal Environmental Justice Research Group, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Ibidun AdelekanDepartment of Geography, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Wilfredo AlanguiDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of the Philippines Baguio, Governor Pack Road, Baguio, 2600, Philippines.
Rosario CarmonaDepartment of Anthropology of the Americas, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Deborah CoenDepartment of History and Program in the History of Science & Medicine, Yale University, 320 York St, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Melissa K NelsonSchool of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University, 777 E. University Dr, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
Victoria Reyes-GarcíaICREA and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
Jennifer RubisGreen Climate Fund, Incheon, 22004, Republic of Korea.
Gideon SanagoPastoralists Indigenous NGO's Forum (PINGO's Forum), P.O.Box 14437, Sakina kwa Iddi, Arusha, Tanzania.
Andrew WilsonSchool of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY, 10027, USA.

Funding

European Research Council FP7-771056-LICCI
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems can be a path to transformative change only if those systems are respected in their entirety, as indivisible cultural wholes of knowledge, practices, values, and worldviews. This argument grounds our specific recommendations for governance at the local, national, and international scales. As concrete mechanisms to guide collaboration across knowledge systems, we propose a set of instruments based on the principles of consent, intellectual and cultural autonomy, and justice. We recommend these instruments as tools to ensure that collaborations across knowledge systems embody just partnerships in support of a decolonial transformation of relations between human communities and between humanity and the more-than-human world.

Indexed as

ColonialismKnowledgeClimate ChangeHumansIndigenous PeoplesClimateCo-productionDecolonizationIndigenousKnowledgeTransformation

Identifiers

PMID37103778
PMCPMC10406791

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