The relationship between Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems has been the subject of much debate over the past few decades, especially in ecology and natural resource management. In this monograph, we review available scholarship to develop a pragmatic framework for representation of knowledge systems in general, with specific emphasis on productive engagement between individuals from different communities and cultures. We distill operational definitions/explanations of fundamental concepts associated with data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. With these concepts clarified, we reconsider previous applications of sociocultural knowledge system thinking, focusing on system structure and function. Our analysis leads to convergence on a set of fundamental knowledge system processes and actor roles that have emerged repeatedly across many of the scholarly disciplines. We embed these key concepts within a general framework for operational characterization of sociocultural knowledge systems. In order to demonstrate existing and potential applications of the knowledge system framework, we present and discuss major trends in recent ecology and natural resource management literature. Finally, we propose that continued and collaborative development of this general framework can serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals from Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems who wish to engage in reciprocal and meaningful dialogue with members of other knowledge systems, especially regarding the highly uncertain global future of ecology and natural resource management.

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生态和自然资源管理中土著，地方和科学知识系统的文化框架

在过去的几十年中，土著，地方和科学知识系统之间的关系一直是许多争论的主题，尤其是在生态学和自然资源管理方面。在本专着中，我们回顾了现有的奖学金，以建立务实的知识体系表示框架，特别强调来自不同社区和文化的个人之间的生产性参与。我们提炼与数据，信息，知识和智慧相关的基本概念的操作定义/解释。在澄清了这些概念之后，我们重新考虑了社会文化知识系统思维的先前应用，着重于系统结构和功能。我们的分析导致在许多学术学科中反复出现的一系列基础知识系统过程和参与者角色的趋同。我们将这些关键概念嵌入到社会文化知识系统的操作特征描述的通用框架中。为了演示知识系统框架的现有和潜在应用，我们介绍和讨论最近的生态学和自然资源管理文献的主要趋势。最后，我们建议，对于希望与其他知识系统的成员进行互惠而有意义的对话的土著，地方和科学知识系统的个人，该通用框架的持续合作开发可以作为一种实用的工具，