Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships

[摘要] 1. The need for a pluralistic approach to biodiversity conservation science and policy is increasingly being recognized. We argue that plural perspectives requiremultilingualism in the sources and processes.2. Unless the linguistic bias and the related issues in terms of legitimacy and validity,resistance to inclusion, and knowledge coproduction are meaningfully addressed,biodiversity science and its positive effects for conservation policy and practiceswill necessarily be limited.3. We propose a series of options to address the linguistic biases in biodiversityconservation science and policy, including extending and tightening collaboration with environmental humanities scholars from diverse traditions as well asresearchers from diverse linguistic contexts.4. We conclude by showing how multilingualism is especially relevant for cross-scaleand global biodiversity governance.

[学科分类] 护理学

[关键词] conservation;environmental policy;environmental sciences;global governance;multilingualism;science-policy