ABSTRACT

For many, Green Infrastructure (GI) is a modern ecological planning concept focusing on stormwater runoff. This paper argues for the importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in GI planning and policy through the case study of the Tumbes Basin. The Basin serves as home to a diverse array of Pre-Hispanic Indigenous networked agro-ecological practices and landscape interventions guided by a worldview marrying humans and landscapes dating back to immemorial times of human habitation in the Americas (∼36,000 BP). By 900 BCE–1100 CE this planned regional network was actively managing landslides, stormwater runoff, and riverine flooding, all challenges are currently being exacerbated by climate change and urban development. Today, this landscape-level network is one of the biggest GI systems in Peru and yet remains unacknowledged in emergent GI policy and planning. By examining existing Peruvian scholarship on landscape practices, and visualizing Pre-Hispanic landscape networks in the Tumbes Basin, this study makes the case for Peruvian GI policy to be guided by Indigenous Knowledge and governance systems. Such a transformation requires a deeper integration of Indigenous conceptualizations of GI with other infrastructure systems and regional urban planning and design.

摘要

对许多人来说，绿色基础设施 (GI) 是一种专注于雨水径流的现代生态规划概念。本文通过通贝斯盆地的案例研究论证了土著知识 (IK) 在地理标志规划和政策中的重要性。该盆地是各种前西班牙裔土著网络农业生态实践和景观干预措施的所在地，其指导的世界观将人类和景观结合起来，可追溯到美洲人类居住的远古时代（约 36,000 BP）。到公元前 900 年至公元 1100 年，这个计划中的区域网络正在积极管理山体滑坡、雨水径流和河流洪水，目前气候变化和城市发展加剧了所有挑战。今天，这个景观级网络是秘鲁最大的地理标志系统之一，但在紧急地理标志政策和规划中仍未得到承认。通过检查秘鲁现有的景观实践学术研究，并可视化通贝斯盆地的前西班牙景观网络，本研究为秘鲁地理标志政策以土著知识和治理系统为指导提供了理由。这种转变需要将 GI 的土著概念与其他基础设施系统和区域城市规划和设计进行更深入的整合。