Biocultural Restoration

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Biocultural restoration is the science and practice of restoring not only ecosystems, but also human and cultural relationships to place, such that cultures are strengthened and revitalized alongside the lands with which they are inextricably linked. The term has been advanced by author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and her colleagues at State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

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• https://www.esf.edu/research/restorationscience/biocultural.php - describes efforts at SUNY
  • Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY
• Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Stations explores site management strategies that aim to increase community involvement in developing mutually beneficial relationships between people and riparian lands.
• Working Buffer Pilot Project was developed in an attempt to define appropriate land uses around wetlands and rivers that create value for human settlements.
• The protection and restoration of Riparian Buffer Function is a topic of significant social conflict and public effort.

Questions

• This term has commonly been used to describe restoration of indigenous relationships to traditional lands. It is unclear how using this term to reference the restoration of human an cultural relationships to place among settler communities and their descendants, changes the meaning.