Indigenous community governance in marine conservation: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Maintaining marine sustainability and biodiversity requires support and cooperation from the government, stakeholders, and community. Indigenous communities have the right to restoration and protection of the environment and productive capacity of land, territory, sea, and all their natural resources. Research on community governance has been carried out by many researchers with increasingly developing topics. Including topics about indigenous peoples and natural resource conservation. This research aims is to determine the development of research trends regarding community governance of indigenous communities in marine conservation. The data source is literature in the Scopus database and the data analysis uses bibliometric analysis of indigenous community governance in marine conservation publications. The results are the research of indigenous communities governance in marine conservation from the first publication in 2006 has tended to increase. Although in certain years it has decreased or there have been no publications at all. The research become an interesting topic because it related with environmental science and indigenous communities have a big role in implementing marine conservation. This conservation has been going for a long time and passed down from generation to generation. The recommendation of this research is legal recognition for indigenous peoples to protect their rights.