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Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach
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Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners' knowledge can provide valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and ecosystems for human well-being. There is, therefore, a great need within emerging global assessment programs, such as the IPBES and other international efforts, to develop functioning mechanisms for legitimate, transparent, and constructive ways of creating synergies across knowledge systems. We present the multiple evidence base (MEB) as an approach that proposes parallels whereby indigenous, local and scientific knowledge systems are viewed to generate different manifestations of knowledge, which can generate new insights and innovations through complementarities. MEB emphasizes that evaluation of knowledge occurs primarily within rather than across knowledge systems. MEB on a particular issue creates an enriched picture of understanding, for triangulation and joint assessment of knowledge, and a starting point for further knowledge generation.
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“In their formative writing on multiple evidence base (MEB) approaches, Tengö et al. (2014) identify a need for new tools and approaches for co-developing questions, documenting and mobilizing knowledge, and co-producing insights and decisions-all under the guiding principle of valuing diversity in knowledge systems.”
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“In their view, “a MEB approach emphasizes the complementarity of knowledge systems and the values of letting each knowledge system speak for itself, within its own context, without assigning one dominant knowledge system with the role of external validator” (Tengö et al., 2014).”
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“MEB approaches seek to connect distinct knowledge systems (Alexander et al., 2019), often through parallel lines of Indigenous and Western scientific inquiry (Tengö et al., 2014), but mechanisms and successful examples of this or equivalent approaches in practice, especially in an aquatic or fisheries context, have been few and far between (e.g.Cooke et al., 2020;Laidler, 2006;Mackinson, 2001).”
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“…of—and to reimagine through futures thinking—cultural, social, political, and economic systems and structures as well as the processes and relationships needed to arrive at these envisioned alternatives (Slaughter 1996; Tengö et al. 2014; Thomas 2022; Wyborn et al. 2021; Zipin et al 2012).”
Kadykalo, A. N., Findlay, C. S., Spencer, M., Callaghan, C. L., Cooke, S. J., & Young, N. (2024) · AMBIO · doi:10.1007/s13280-024-01979-9 · Cited by 8
An integrative approach to assess the impact of disturbance on native fish in lakes
Thomson‐Laing, G., Schallenberg, L., Kelly, D. J. A., Howarth, J., & Wood, S. A. (2023) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.13013 · Cited by 7
Actualizing Indigenous Knowledge in tribal wildlife management: basic preconditions
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Filling global gaps in monitoring data with local knowledge
Castello, L. (2023) · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems · doi:10.1002/aqc.3937 · Cited by 9
Sustainability in higher education in Ecuador- Universidad Técnica del Norte case study
Aguirre, P., Villota-González, F. H., & Pincay, S. L. M. (2023) · International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education · doi:10.1108/ijshe-07-2021-0268 · Cited by 15
Virtanen, P., Apurinã, F., Ruokolainen, K., & Manchineri, L. (2022) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-022-00376-8 · Cited by 8
Bowles, E., Jeon, H.-B., Marin, K., Macleod, P., & Fraser, D. (2022) · Facets · doi:10.1139/facets-2021-0049 · Cited by 8
A mixed methodology for evaluating use of evidence in conservation planning
Stevens, M. T., & Norris, D. R. (2021) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/cobi.13876 · Cited by 11
“Multiple evidencebased approaches (Tengö et al., 2014) and knowledge braiding or weaving (Kimmerer, 2020) offer pathways toward more ethical and equitable knowledge sharing across knowledge systems, with distinct potential to enhance conservation efforts and advance the goals of reconciliation…”
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Suárez, A., Ruíz-Agudelo, C., Castro-Escobar, E. S., Flórez-Yepes, G., & Vargas-Marín, L. A. (2021) · Forests · doi:10.3390/f12091274 · Cited by 8
“New developments include the integration of indigenous and local knowledge systems and practices [67], the development of integrative frameworks [68], and the comparative study of methods’ capacities to capture plural values [33,60].”
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Reflecting on Global South planning and planning literature
Cilliers, E. (2020) · Development Southern Africa · doi:10.1080/0376835x.2019.1637717 · Cited by 8
“It is through such inquiry-based approaches that we can collectively become co-producers of knowledge (Tengo et al., 2014) and ultimately expand the (quantity and quality) planning literature base of the Global South.”
BackgroundKuiper, J. J., Kooi, B. W., Peterson, G., & Mooij, W. M. (2022) · Acta Biotheoretica · doi:10.1007/s10441-022-09441-7 · Cited by 8
Atlantic and Pacific halibut co-management initiatives by Canadian fishermen's organizations
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Seeing Through Fishers’ Lenses
Moshy, V. H., & Bryceson, I. (2016) · SAGE Open · doi:10.1177/2158244016641716 · Cited by 11
“The process has produced spaces for enhancing the equal treatment of TEK and CSK by promoting effective participation of TEK holders in knowledge production, before it was considered in parallel with existing CSK (Tengö et al., 2014).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialEliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research
Hertz, T., Banitz, T., Peña, R. M., Radosavljevic, S., Lindkvist, E., Johansson, L., Ylikoski, P., & Schlüter, M. (2024) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-14806-290114 · Cited by 12
“This is particularly relevant for SES research because the field studies a variety of knowledge systems, including local and indigenous ones, that use radically different concepts and framings, which might be incommensurable with one another (Tengö et al. 2014, 2021).”
BackgroundPau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage
Lichtenberg, S., Huber‐Sannwald, E., Reyes‐Agüero, J. A., Anhuf, D., & Nehren, U. M. (2022) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-13047-270132 · Cited by 13
“…technical knowledge of wood sciences, artistic knowledge of musicians regarding requirements for string instrument bows) enriches the overall picture (Tengö et al. 2014) and ultimately permits an integrated assessment of complex telecoupled cultural-ecological systems— in our case, of the PB-CES.”
BackgroundCapacities for Watershed Resilience: Persistence, Adaptation, and Transformation
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“The other studies argued that extension workers often prioritize scientific knowledge over indigenous practices, leading to minimal integration [63, 65], and [54].”
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“Their second approach involves prioritizing co-production of knowledge, where multiple distinct and separate paradigms are applied simultaneously at all stages of knowledge generation (Tengö et al., 2014; van Bavel et al., 2022).”
Thomsen, J., Måren, I., & Cusens, J. (2025) · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101539 · Cited by 7
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research
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“Beyond this, critical reflexivity entails that researchers are able to recognize how their own methods of knowledge creation are situated in the diversity of the sciences (Halffman 2019) and of plural knowledge systems more broadly (Tengö et al. 2014).”
From Sustainability to Regeneration: A Systems Approach to Mountain Forestscape Restoration
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“These ancient sustainable practices echoe the intricate relationship indigenous communities have with their environment as noted in previous studies (Dudgeon and Berkes 2003; Tengö et al. 2014).”
Harnesk, D., Baron, N., Kongsager, R., & Heidenreich, S. (2024) · Regional Environmental Change · doi:10.1007/s10113-024-02342-0 · Cited by 7
“One of the most prominent approaches is the multiple evidence-based approach (Tengö et al. 2014; see also Tengö et al. 2017).”
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“IPBES rules of procedures suggest the teams of experts producing IPBES deliver-ables must be balanced in terms of gender, region of origin, and disciplinary representation (Borie et al., 2021; Tengö et al., 2014).”
The Mien people's ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plant use in Thailand and Vietnam
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“…of knowledge, in which ILK is only considered reliable if validated by science, and that terms like knowledge co-production, which call for collaboration at every stage of a research project, better describes equitable processes of bringing together different knowl-edges (Tengö et al. 2014).”
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“…data and knowledge sources, however, is vital for understanding multifaceted and complex problems, and to achieve a more reliable and robust assessment of the influence of pre-Columbian activities on Amazonian ecosystems (Mayle and Iriarte, 2014; McCle-nachan et al., 2015; Teng ¨ o et al., 2014).”
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“To do that ethically, we would recommend a knowledge co-production approach that brings together remote sensing experts and Indigenous knowledge holders to share their relative understandings and interpretations (e.g., Tengö et al., 2014; Steger et al., 2020).”
Metadata
- Authors
- Tengö, M., Brondizio, E. S., Elmqvist, T., Malmer, P., & Spierenburg, M.
- Affiliations
- Stockholm Resilience Centre (SE)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Tengö, Maria
- Venue
- AMBIO
- Published
- 2014-03-22
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 579-591
- ISSN
- 0044-7447 (ISSN-L)
- 1654-7209
- PMC
- PMC4132468
- OpenAlex
- W2122925767
- Cited by
- 1,329
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 163 · 2025: 140 · 2024: 122 · 2023: 140 · 2022: 146 · 2021: 152 · 2020: 124 · 2019: 101 · 2018: 89 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 46 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 11
- FWCI
- 43.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- AMBIO (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete
- Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Keywords
- indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, scientific knowledge, knowledge integration, ecosystem governance, biodiversity governance, IPBES, knowledge assessment, human well-being, knowledge synergy
- MeSH terms
- Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecosystem, Biodiversity
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