An Indigenous science of the climate change impacts on landscape topography in Siberia

Lavrillier, Alexandra; Gabyshev, Semen

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“…Callaghan, Shaduyko and Kirpotin) Topic Focus Diversity Environmental Change Implications References People and settlements Ethnicity Indigenous Peoples Settlers Changes in diet and health Changes in life styles Abandonment of agricultural land and small villages Andronov et al ( 2021 ) Andronov et al ( 2021 ) Main text Minayeva et al ( 2021 ) Shift workers Increasing opportunities as access to resources increases Cities and settlements Large, modern cities Small settlements Nomads’ villages Need for sustainability Orttung et al ( 2021 ) Need for infrastructure improvement, e.g. access routes Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Changes in grazing and hunting areas Lavrillier and Gobychev ( 2021 ) Interactions with the environment Higher level of formal education in cities Greater awareness of global environmental change by city dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Greater contact with nature in nomads villages and small settlements More accurate perceptions of environmental change by small settlement dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Landscapes Topography Mountains Loss of glacier mass Increase in glacier forefields Volkov et al ( 2021 ) Callaghan et al ( 2021 ) Plains Changes in forests and wetlands ...…”

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“…access routes Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Changes in grazing and hunting areas Lavrillier and Gobychev ( 2021 ) Interactions with the environment Higher level of formal education in cities Greater awareness of global environmental change by city dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Greater contact with nature in nomads villages and small settlements More accurate perceptions of environmental change by small settlement dwellers Rakhmanova et al ( 2021 ) Landscapes Topography Mountains Loss of glacier mass Increase in glacier forefields Volkov et al ( 2021 ) Callaghan et al ( 2021 ) Plains Changes in forests and wetlands Volkov et al ( 2021 ) Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Kirpotin et al ( 2021a , b ) Biogeographical zones Tundra Invasion of trees and shrubs (“greening”) Loss of permafrost Kirpotin et al 2021a Anisimov and Zimov ( 2021 ) Taiga Increase in forest fires Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Kharuk et al ( 2021 ) Increase in legal and illegal logging Kharuk et al, ( 2021 ) Increase in insect pests Kirpotin et al ( 2021a ) Steppes Increasing aridity Kirpotin et al ( ...…”

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“…Thematically, the studies focus on Societal issues such as the sustainability of Arctic cities (Orttung et al 2021 ), changing diet and health of Indigenous People (Andronov et al 2021 ), varying perceptions of climate change (Rakhmanova et al 2021 ) and Indigenous knowledge (Lavrillier and Gabyshev 2021 ); biodiversity changes throughout Siberia (Kirpotin et al 2021a ), in the forests (Kharuk et al 2021 ) and in the southern mountains (Volkov et al 2021 ; Volkova et al 2021 ); historical development of peatlands, peatland ecosystem function, and carbon storage (Pascual et al 2021 ; Tsyganov et al 2021 ; Kirpotin et al 2021b ). thawing permafrost and carbon emissions (Anisimov and Zimov 2021 ); management of ecosystem services (Minayeva et al 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Societal issues such as the sustainability of Arctic cities (Orttung et al 2021 ), changing diet and health of Indigenous People (Andronov et al 2021 ), varying perceptions of climate change (Rakhmanova et al 2021 ) and Indigenous knowledge (Lavrillier and Gabyshev 2021 );…”

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Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

Callaghan

Shaduyko

Kirpotin

et al. 2021

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A recent multidisciplinary compilation of studies on changes in the Siberian environment details how climate is changing faster than most places on Earth with exceptional warming in the north and increased aridity in the south. Impacts of these changes are rapid permafrost thaw and melt of glaciers, increased flooding, extreme weather events leading to sudden changes in biodiversity, increased forest fires, more insect pest outbreaks, and increased emissions of CO 2 and methane. These trends interact with sociological changes leading to land-use change, globalisation of diets, impaired health of Arctic Peoples, and challenges for transport. Local mitigation and adaptation measures are likely to be limited by a range of public perceptions of climate change that vary according to personal background. However, Siberia has the possibility through land surface feedbacks to amplify or suppress climate change impacts at potentially global levels. Based on the diverse studies presented in this Ambio Special Issue, we suggest ways forward for more sustainable environmental research and management. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01626-7.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

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Kirpotin

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“…Like the Great Whale River, the River Tana is a site of traditional fishing (Hiedanpää et al 2020), and local Indigenous knowledge is a key element that should be incorporated into subarctic river management. Rich traditional cultures based on river fishing and hunting are well known from other high latitude sites including Siberia (Lavrillier and Gabyshev 2021), western Canada (Proverbs et al 2020) and Alaska (Voinot-Baron 2020), and Indigenous perspectives from the Cree First Nation and Inuit of the Great Whale River region should be fully integrated into planning, research, monitoring and management of its extensive watershed and coastal waters.…”

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The Great Whale River ecosystem: ecology of a subarctic river and its receiving waters in coastal Hudson Bay, Canada

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The Great Whale River in subarctic Quebec, Canada, is one of the main freshwater inflows to Hudson Bay. This region is experiencing rapid climate change, with pronounced impacts on the cryosphere, and ongoing socio-economic development that may accelerate with future road and shipping links. This review integrates information available to date on the Great Whale River ecosystem, which we define as the river and its watershed, its source lakes and streams, and the river mouth environment and beyond the shoreline in southeastern Hudson Bay. Our aim was to define the current state of this ecosystem as a baseline for ongoing observations, with emphasis on (1) the distribution of water masses, optical characteristics, freshwater discharge, and ice cover; (2) concentrations and fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and contaminants; (3) abundance, production and diversity of the organisms associated with the sea ice ecosystem; (4) plankton abundance, biomass, production, and assemblages; (5) benthic abundance and diversity; (6) fish abundance, diversity and population dynamics; (7) marine mammal biology; and (8) global change impacts on freshwater and marine habitats. This synthesis provides a first step towards the integrated management of the Great Whale River ecosystem, and for similar freshwater-marine systems in the subarctic region.

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Adapting nomadic pastoralism to climate change

2023

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This paper presents the results of a detailed review of the research literature on how nomadic pastoralists are being affected by climate change, how they are adapting, and challenges with using traditional knowledge in adaptation. It focuses on research that investigates local, and particularly traditional, knowledge of water, pasture, their variability, and livestock. This knowledge underpins nomadic livelihoods, so is a foundation for effective adaptation. Changes in the total amount of precipitation, and particularly shifts in its timing, and increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme events, are having the greatest impacts on herding livelihoods. Herders in drylands worldwide face common adaptation challenges: declining traditional water sources and pasture degradation. Herders’ adaptation strategies fall into five major categories: movement to areas with better water and pasture, improving seasonal access to water, improving seasonal access to feed, shifts in herd composition, and livelihood diversification. Movement is central to nomads’ adaptation, yet, as climate change takes hold, restrictions on movement are increasing for both socio-economic reasons and climate reasons. Many papers emphasised the importance of combining traditional knowledge and current science to guide adaptation decision-making at household, locality, and national levels. There is widespread concern about the decline in traditional knowledge. All the papers reviewed emphasised the need to support passing on traditional know-how. Herder women’s know-how, in particular, is marginalised in the research literature, so their traditional knowledge should be a focus in further research. Herders’ adaptations are mostly localised, incremental, and have a relatively short-term focus. As nomadic pastoralism moves further outside the range of historical experience, the possibility of more profound transformations looms.

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An Indigenous science of the climate change impacts on landscape topography in Siberia

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking

The Great Whale River ecosystem: ecology of a subarctic river and its receiving waters in coastal Hudson Bay, Canada

Adapting nomadic pastoralism to climate change

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