Rights-holders, practitioners, and researchers recognize the importance of Indigenous-led resource management for building a more ecologically just world and addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, it remains unclear how to support them in a way that increases their spatial extent and ensuring impact on equitable biodiversity conservation. We address this gap by using Diffusion of Innovations theory to explain the rapid spread of an Indigenous-led network of Locally Managed Marine Areas in Fiji. We found that 74.9 percent of adopters had a previous adopter as their nearest neighbor, and that despite contrasting patterns of adoption at the island level, such patterns could be accounted for by: perceived relative advantage, village chiefly status, distance to tourism hotspots, and presence of district-level management committees, support organizations, and trust. These insights can inform the design and implementation of Indigenous-led approaches that can scale appropriately and respond to the global environmental crisis.

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扩大土著主导的自然资源管理

权利持有人、从业者和研究人员认识到原住民主导的资源管理对于建设一个生态更加公正的世界以及解决气候变化和生物多样性丧失问题的重要性。然而，目前尚不清楚如何以增加其空间范围并确保对公平生物多样性保护产生影响的方式来支持它们。我们通过使用创新扩散理论来解释斐济土著主导的本地管理海洋区域网络的快速传播，从而解决这一差距。我们发现，74.9% 的收养者以前的收养者是他们最近的邻居，尽管岛屿层面的收养模式截然不同，但这种模式可以通过以下因素来解释：感知的相对优势、村庄主要地位、距旅游热点的距离以及区级管理委员会、支持组织和信任的存在。这些见解可以为原住民主导的方法的设计和实施提供信息，这些方法可以适当扩展并应对全球环境危机。