6 research outputs found
Children and young people living through the monsoon:watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
Operationalizing local ecological knowledge in climate change research : challenges and opportunities of citizen science
Current research on the local impacts of climate change is based on contrasting results from the simulation of historical trends in climatic variables produced with global models against climate data from independent observations. To date, these observations have mostly consisted of weather data from standardized meteorological stations. Given that the spatial distribution of weather stations is patchy, climate scientists have called for the exploration of new data sources. Knowledge developed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities with a long history of interaction with their environment has been proposed as a data source with untapped potential to contribute to our understanding of the local impacts of climate change. In this chapter, we discuss an approach that aims to bring insights from local knowledge systems to climate change research. First, we present a number of theoretical arguments that give support to the idea that local knowledge systems can contribute in original ways to the endeavors of climate change research. Then, we explore the potential of using information and communication technologies to gather and share local knowledge of climate change impacts. We do so through the examination of a citizen science initiative aiming to collect local indicators of climate change impacts: the LICCI project (www.licci.eu). Our findings illustrate that citizen science can inspire new approaches to articulate the inclusion of local knowledge systems in climate change research. However, this requires outlining careful approaches, with high ethical standards, toward knowledge validation and recognizing that there are aspects of local ecological knowledge that are incommensurable with scientific knowledge
Adaptation to climate change using indigenous weather forecasting systems in Borana pastoralists of southern Ethiopia
Children and young people living through the monsoon: watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
Learning Knowledge about Rattan (Calamoideae arecaceae) and Its Uses Amongst Ngaju Dayak in Indonesian Borneo
German National Science Foundation and the World Agroforestry Centre