Indigenous Peoples‐related environmental research within the basin of the Laurentian Great Lakes: A systematic map protocol

• Published in: Ecological Solutions and Evidence
• Main Authors: Serville‐Tertullien, Marsha, Pirie, Emma, Buell, Mary‐Claire, Wall, Barbara Moktthewenkwe, Furgal, Chris
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology; Global and Planetary Change; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12199; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12199; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/2688-8319.12199; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12199

Abstract The North American Great Lakes Basin is the homeland for many First Nations, Métis and Native American Tribes. The terrestrial and aquatic ecological systems within this multinational region, which is of spiritual, cultural and subsistence significance to a diversity of Indigenous Peoples, are facing several natural and anthropogenic pressures. While there are many current and past research efforts and projects to address those pressures, the nature and range of environment‐related projects involving Indigenous Peoples or organizations remains unknown. This gap in knowledge presents a unique opportunity to identify and map past and current environmental and ecological research within the Great Lakes involving Indigenous Peoples. A systematic search strategy will be applied to identify and capture peer‐reviewed publications that pertain to past and current environmental research within the Great Lakes basin that involve or are connected to Indigenous Peoples, following the procedures outlined in this systematic mapping protocol. Publications that pertain to environmental and ecological research with, for and by Indigenous Peoples within the Great Lakes, as determined by the use of suitable keywords, will be retrieved from four proposed online bibliographic platforms and databases. Searches will only include peer‐reviewed publications in the English language. Final captures of the search results will be screened in two stages to identify potentially relevant papers. This will take place through (1) title and abstract screening and (2) full‐text analysis. Following the completion of the screening process, remaining papers will be coded and analysed through a narrative synthesis approach and descriptive statistics will be conducted. Environmental research captured through this systematic protocol will be geospatially mapped using the ArcGIS mapping software. It is anticipated that the information obtained from the resulting systematic map will be beneficial for identifying gaps in environmental research to ...