Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawaiʻi

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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Kawika B. Winter¹  Noa Kekuewa Lincoln⁵  Fikret Berkes⁶  Rosanna A. Alegado⁷  Natalie Kurashima⁹  Kiana L. Frank^1,10  Puaʻala Pascua^1,11  Yoshimi M. Rii¹  Frederick Reppun¹  Ingrid S.S. Knapp¹  Will C. McClatchey^1,12  Tamara Ticktin^1,13  Celia Smith^1,13  Erik C. Franklin¹  Kirsten Oleson²  Melissa R. Price²  Margaret A. McManus⁷  Megan J. Donahue¹  Kuulei S. Rodgers¹  Brian W. Bowen¹  Craig E. Nelson⁷  Bill Thomas^1,14  Jo-Ann Leong¹  Elizabeth M. P. Madin¹  Malia Ana J. Rivera¹  Kim A. Falinski^1,15  Leah L. Bremer^1,16  Jonathan L. Deenik^1,18  Sam M. Gon III^1,15  Brian Neilson^1,19  Ryan Okano^1,19  Anthony Olegario^1,19  Ben Nyberg³  A. Hiʻilei Kawelo^2,20  Keliʻi Kotubetey^2,20  J. Kānekoa Kukea-Shultz^1,15  Robert J. Toonen¹ 

[1] Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;National Tropical Botanical Garden;Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance;Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba;Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Natural and Cultural Resources, Kamehameha Schools;Pacific Biosciences Research Center, Kewalo Marine Lab, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Center for Biodiversity and Conservation;Woodland Valley Meadows Farm;School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;The Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi;University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Tropical Plants and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa;Division of Aquatic Resources, Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources;Paepae o Heʻeia;Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi

关键词: agroecology;    ecosystem-based management;    Hawaiian resource management;    social-ecological systems theory;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-11539-250226

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Here, we expand on the term “ecomimicry” to be an umbrella concept for an approach to adaptive ecosystem-based management of social-ecological systems that simultaneously optimizes multiple ecosystem services for the benefit of people and place. In this context, we define ecomimicry as a strategy for developing and managing cultural landscapes, built upon a deep understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems, that harnesses ecosystem processes for the purpose of balancing and sustaining key ecosystem services, rather than maximizing one service (e.g., food production) to the detriment of others. Ecomimicry arises through novel, place-based innovations or is adopted from elsewhere and adapted to local conditions. Similarly, precontact Hawaiian social-ecological systems integrated a variety of ecomimicry schema to engender a complex system of adaptive resource management that enhanced biocultural diversity and supported resilient food systems, ultimately sustaining a thriving human population. In addition to presenting a synopsis of how ecomimicry was employed in the design and management of Hawaiian social-ecological systems, we identify and characterize specific ecomimicry applications. Within this context, we explore a revival of ecomimicry for biological conservation, biocultural restoration, resilience, and food security. We conclude with a discussion of how revitalizing such an approach in the restoration of social-ecological systems may address issues of conservation and sustainability in the Anthropocene.

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