Abstract:
ABSTRACT
The traditional knowledge-based communities are quietly developing some of the most viable reactions
when the climate pressures are escalating daily. Their strategies validate the fact that resilience is
generally established at the bottom up by individuals most well acquainted with their local contexts.
With the growing climate and environmental crises, community-based Nature-Based Solutions, which
incorporates indigenous and local knowledge are an immensely potent way of bolstering resilience,
recovering biosphere, and preserving human health. In accordance with the PRISMA protocol, the
structured search was carried out in the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar with
the specific search keywords connected to NbS, traditional ecological knowledge, and socio-ecological
outcomes. Thematic synthesis was used to analyse 71 peer-reviewed studies to determine the co-benefits
of community-driven interventions to mitigate climate-related health risks, food security, and
biodiversity conservation. The results showed that NbS are eco-health infrastructures that could restore
ecosystems besides enhancing civic well-being through processes like control of vectors in restored
wetlands, heat reduction, urban greening and purification of the air and water by utilizing the practices
of native land-based management. Indigenous phytoremediation, application of plant-basedcoagulants, and indigenous farming systems are all indicative of successful and low-cost methods of
controlling pollution and restoring soil. Likewise, the conservation ethics and resilience are backed by
indigenous governance systems. Nepal, Namibia and Philippine adaptive co-management models
demonstrate that incorporation of institutional and traditional knowledge in collaborating towards
improved ecosystem outcomes. The discussion has found that indigenous knowledge and participatory
governance are significant to NbS structures that can improve socio-ecological resilience. The future
policies ought to focus on local capacity building, cross-sectoral partnership to build community-led
NbS to be climate-health resilient.
