Local Territorial Practices Inform Co-Production of a Rewilding Project in the Chilean Andes

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dc.contributor.authorGuerrero-Gatica, Matias
dc.contributor.authorReyes, Tamara Escobar
dc.contributor.authorRochefort, Benjamin Silva
dc.contributor.authorFernandez, Josefina
dc.contributor.authorElorrieta, Andoni
dc.contributor.authorRoot-Bernstein, Meredith
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:15:05Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:15:05Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractCo-production of conservation projects is favored by incorporating local ecological knowledge into project design and implementation. Using a mixed method approach, we asked how the territorial practices and knowledge of cowboys and livestock farmers inform their attitudes to this proposed project. We predicted that cowboy territorial practices would be reduced in diversity compared to the past, and that this may be associated with a reduction in coping or adaptation capacity in the face of environmental challenges. We further predicted that due to growing environmental and social pressures reducing traditional livelihood opportunities for this group, they are likely to see the guanaco reintroduction project in a conflictual and negative light. We additionally predicted that they would perceive local carnivorous species in a conflictual and negative way. We found that territorial practices among the sample had indeed decreased in diversity. The sample coped with changing socio-ecological conditions by taking up other jobs. However, we also found that they had majority favorable views on the guanaco reintroduction project. Yet their knowledge of current guanaco behavior led them to believe that the project would fail. However, they also observed that pumas and condors changed their behaviors. We suggest that there are opportunities to co-produce knowledge about the possibility of flexible and adaptive guanaco behavior, which may lead to restoration and create more sustainable future scenarios, by engaging with the territorial practices and local ecological knowledge of cowboys and livestock farmers.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su15075966
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su15075966
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92239
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000970421300001
dc.issue.numero7
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaSustainability
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectrestoration
dc.subjectreintroduction
dc.subjectterritory
dc.subjectsemi-arid ecosystems
dc.subjectmountain
dc.subjectlocal knowledge
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods01 No Poverty
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa01 Fin de la pobreza
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.titleLocal Territorial Practices Inform Co-Production of a Rewilding Project in the Chilean Andes
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen15
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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