Abstract
This study uses a community-based assessment in conjunction with the integrated catchment management and community capitals frameworks to explore the iTaukei (indigenous Fijian) knowledge systems relative to the management of natural resources in the villages in the Waimanu Catchment. The iTaukei knowledge systems encompassing traditional beliefs, values, customs, and social relations within the villages were used to devise adaptive strategies to improve the physical, financial, human, cultural, social, and political capitals in order to enhance the natural capital in the Waimanu Catchment. Improving the health of local ecosystems would increase the adaptive capacity of the local communities, which would ultimately, make the communities resilient to the impacts of climate change and human activities. It is therefore, essential to implement an integrated management plan on a catchment scale which considers the interconnectedness between people and the ecosystems as well as the upstream–downstream connectivity since land use changes undertaken upstream affect the resilience of downstream communities. The study emphasized that the enrichment of human capital, social bonding, and collaboration among the internal and external stakeholders consisting of government, quasi-government and non-government organizations, industries and businesses, and landowners located both within and outside of the catchment served as the key principles to help achieve community resilience.
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The authors express sincere gratitude to Mr. Manjoor Begg for his research assistance during the field work at the study sites. We would also like to acknowledge the Research Office at the University of the South Pacific for awarding the Pacific Scholarship for Excellence in Research and Innovation (PSERI) to Shereen Shabina Begg which helped to fund this study.
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Begg, S.S., De Ramon N’Yeurt, A. & Begg, S. Interweaving resource management with indigenous knowledge to build community resilience in the Pacific Islands: case of the Waimanu Catchment in Viti Levu, Fiji. Reg Environ Change 23, 86 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02079-2
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