A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research

Reyes‐García, Victoria; García-del-Amo, David; Benyei, Petra; Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro; Gravani, Konstantina; Junqueira, André Braga; Labeyrie, Vanesse; Li, Xiaoyue; Matias, Denise Margaret; McAlvay, Alex C.; Mortyn, P. Graham; Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna; Schlingmann, Anna; Soleymani-Fard, Ramin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.007

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“…However, there is an as-yet-vacant niche for established global citizen science platforms to improve documentation of threats (e.g., unsustainable use) to biodiversity, and of conservation responses. Furthermore, citizen social science [68] approaches offer new opportunities to account for social processes when investigating where, when, and what conservation actions should be implemented to support sustainable people-nature interactions through, for example, participation and mutual learning between stakeholders [69]. Public participation geographic information systems and citizen social science can provide an important means of collecting spatially explicit social data (e.g., about the values people associate with biodiversity, places and land-use preferences, therefore indicating their support or conflict over where conservation actions should be implemented).…”

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Quantitative conservation geography

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Toivonen

2022

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Quantitative conservation geography

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Toivonen

2022

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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“…A CS approach is one way to collate multiple place-based observations and to bring ILK from local to regional or global resolutions (Eicken et al 2021 [this issue]). Such initiatives hold promise in bringing place-based ILK into resolutions that can influence global environmental research and policy agendas (IPBES 2019 , Reyes-García et al 2019 ). In figure 5 , we give an overview of CS as embracing science-based methods and diverse knowledge systems approaches.…”

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“…Science (including CS) is a highly relevant and useable tool for contributing to achieving these local goals, but it is only one among the many different tools being employed by IPLC to achieve locally relevant outcomes for their communities (see Fernández-Llamazares et al 2020 ). Continuous dialogue with ILK holders is essential to ensure that ILK historical and contextual complexities are not overlooked in CS initiatives (Reyes-García et al 2019 , Hill et al 2020 ). This includes collaboratively and iteratively designing the interfaces between knowledge systems so they can be mutually valuable and promote shared ownership of the outcomes (Tengö et al 2017 , Austin et al 2019 ).…”

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Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge

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Austin

Danielsen³

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Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and conservation. Drawing on field experience and scientific literature, we explore the connection between CS and ILK and demonstrate approaches for how CS can generate useful knowledge while at the same time strengthening ILK systems. CS invites laypersons to contribute observations, perspectives, and interpretations feeding into scientific knowledge systems. In contrast, ILK can be understood as knowledge systems in its own right, with practices and institutions to craft legitimate and useful knowledge. Such fundamental differences in how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and applied need to be acknowledged and understood for successful outcomes. Engaging with complementary knowledge systems using a multiple evidence base approach can improve the legitimacy of CS initiatives, strengthen collaborations through ethical and reciprocal relationships with ILK holders, and contribute to better stewardship of ecosystems.

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“…For instance, an average rise in global temperature by 0.74 °C over the last hundred years , more than half of this rise, i.e., 0.44 °C reportedly occurred during the last 25 years (IPCC, 2007). Climate change impacts are reported to influence supply of goods and ecosystem services (FAO, 2016;Reyes-García et al, 2019) and closely interlinked with adverse effects on different ecosystems, i.e., forest ecosystem, agro-ecosystem, livestock husbandry and water resources in the region (Adedeji, 2014). Recent studies indicates that global warming is impacting tree mortality, seed germination, pest outbreaks, invasion of alien species, change in the phenology, crop production and animal productivity (Devkota et al, 2017;FAO, 2016;IPCC, 2019;Mayewski et al, 2020;Reyes-García et al, 2019).…”

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Review and synthesis of climate change studies in the Himalayan region

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Tiwari

Singh

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Environ Dev Sustain

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There are a few regions in the world, where climate change impacts are more intense than other regions of the world, and Himalaya is the case. The Himalaya, one of the biodiversity hotspot regions and provider of ecosystem services to billion of people all across the world. Present study reviewed and synthesized climate change studies in the Himalayan region in general and Indian Himalayan region (IHR) in particular. Analysis of the literature indicates exponentially increase in climate change studies 2005 onward in the IHR, and maximum are from Jammu and Kashmir (105) followed by Uttarakhand (100) and Himachal Pradesh (77). Among the subject types, maximum climate change impact was studied on water resources/glacier retreat (141 studies) followed by agriculture (113) and forests/biodiversity (86). Increasing temperature, frequent drought spells, erratic rainfall and declining snowfall are commonly reported indicators of climate change. For instance, temperature is reported to increase by 1.5 °C in the Himalaya than an average increase of 0.74 °C globally in last century; however, it varied in eastern (0.1 °C per decade and western Himalayas (0.09 °C per decade. An increase in temperature between 0.28 and 0.80 °C per decade was reported for North-western Himalaya and 0.20-1.00 °C per decade for Eastern Himalaya. The higher altitude of Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan zone are reported to be warming at higher rates. Many of the glaciers were reported to be retreating in both eastern and western Himalaya. Heavy rainfall is becoming very common in the region often accompanied by cloudbursts that aggravate flood situation many times. Perception-based studies of the region reported to provide firsthand and detailed descriptions of climate change indicators and impacts from rural and remote areas, where no instrumental data are available.

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A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research

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Cited by 58 publications

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Quantitative conservation geography

Quantitative conservation geography

Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge

Review and synthesis of climate change studies in the Himalayan region

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