Linking Inuit knowledge and meteorological station observations to understand changing wind patterns at Clyde River, Nunavut

Gearheard, Shari; Pocernich, Matthew; Stewart, Ronald E.; Sanguya, Joelie; Huntington, Henry P.

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“…Drought is probably also differently experienced by farmers cultivating different crops. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss4/art22/ Associating different cultural ways of recording climate variability A better understanding of the culturally different approaches of climate variability is essential to ensure collaborative and participatory projects, combining indigenous and western knowledge (Barnhardt 2005, Berkes 2009, Gearheard et al 2010. In this study, Meru farmers did not express drought severity in terms of rainfall amount, but indirectly in terms of intra-specific crop diversity losses, which itself can be related to rainfall.…”

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“…Indeed, indigenous knowledge on climate variability was valorized rather for its prospective value in seasonal rainfall forecasting (Orlove et al 2000, Roncoli et al 2002, Vogel and O'Brien 2003, Roncoli 2006) than for its accuracy in identifying past extreme climatic events as indigenous people experienced them. However, assessing the accuracy of the indigenous climate knowledge remains a largely untapped area (Huntington et al 2004, Gearheard et al 2010.…”

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“…In this study, Meru farmers did not express drought severity in terms of rainfall amount, but indirectly in terms of intra-specific crop diversity losses, which itself can be related to rainfall. Gearheard et al (2010) exploited wind perception to connect Inuit knowledge and meteorological station observations. The wind is one of the most important environmental variables that can either enable or constrain Inuit's hunting activities and travels.…”

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Indigenous Past Climate Knowledge as Cultural Built-in Object and Its Accuracy

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ABSTRACT. In studying indigenous climate knowledge, two approaches can be envisioned. In the first, traditional knowledge is a cultural built-in object; conceived as a whole, its relevance can be assessed by referring to other cultural, economic, or technical components at work within an indigenous society. In the second, the accuracy of indigenous climate knowledge is assessed with western science knowledge used as an external reference. However, assessing the accuracy of indigenous climate knowledge remains a largely untapped area. We aim to show how accurate the culturally built indigenous climate knowledge of extreme climatic events is, and how amenable it is to fuzzy logic. A retrospective survey was carried out individually and randomly among 195 Eastern African farmers on climatic reasons for loss of on-farm crop diversity from 1961 to 2006. More than 3000 crop loss events were recorded, and reasons given by farmers were mainly related to droughts or heavy rainfall. Chisquare statistics computed by Monte Carlo simulations based on 999 replicates clearly rejected independence between indigenous knowledge of drought and heavy rainfall that occurred in the past and rainfall records. The fuzzy logic nature of indigenous climatic knowledge appears in the clear association of drought or heavy rainfall events, as perceived by farmers, with corresponding extreme rainfall values, contrasting with a fuzzy picture in the intermediate climatic situations. We discuss how the cultural built-in knowledge helps farmers in perceiving and remembering past climate variations, considering the specificity of the contexts where extreme climatic events were experienced. The integration of indigenous and scientific climate knowledge could allow development of drought monitoring that considers both climatic and contextual data.

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“…Indeed, the past decade has seen a rapidly growing interest in the potential role of other knowledge forms to inform the decision-making process broadly across natural resource management arenas (Aswani and Hamilton 2004), but also specifically in relation to climate adaptation (Salick andRoss 2009, Naess 2013). This is not surprising given (1) the importance of local knowledge for illustrating to local communities the consequences of climate change and (2) the promotion of culturally appropriate adaptation policies to improve community acceptance (Reid et al 2009, Gearheard et al 2010, Boillat and Berkes 2013. However, as with science, the integration of other knowledge forms into policies and strategies for adaptation has been slow, at both national and international levels (Naess 2013).…”

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Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change

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. 2014. Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change. ABSTRACT. The rapid development of adaptation as a mainstream strategy for managing the risks of climate change has led to the emergence of a broad range of adaptation policies and management strategies globally. However, the success of such policies or management interventions depends on the effective integration of new scientific research into the decision-making process. Ineffective communication between scientists and environmental decision makers represents one of the key barriers limiting the integration of science into the decision-making process in many areas of natural resource management. This can be overcome by understanding the perceptions of end users, so as to identify knowledge gaps and develop improved and targeted strategies for communication and engagement. We assessed what one group of environmental decision makers, Australian marine protected area (MPA) managers, viewed as the major risks associated with climate change, and their perceptions regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing these risks. We also assessed what these managers perceived as the role of science in managing the risks from climate change, and identified the factors that increased their trust in scientific information. We do so by quantitatively surveying 30 MPA managers across 3 Australian management agencies. We found that although MPA managers have a very strong awareness of the range and severity of risks posed by climate change, their understanding of adaptation as an option for managing these risks is less comprehensive. We also found that although MPA managers view science as a critical source of information for informing the decision-making process, it should be considered in context with other knowledge types such as community and cultural knowledge, and be impartial, evidence based, and pragmatic in outlining policy and management recommendations that are realistically achievable.

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“…Indigenous Knowledge Systems can be used to support climate change monitoring [3,8,24,25,28,78] and provide valuable sources of information regarding natural resources and environmental change [14,23,38,[79][80][81]. Studies have compared IKS and physical science to show how the involvement of local people and their understanding and observations can contribute to improved climate change analysis [22,82].…”

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Across the globe, station-based meteorological data are analyzed to estimate the rate of change in precipitation. However, in sparsely populated regions, like Mongolia, stations are few and far between, leaving significant gaps in station-derived precipitation patterns across space and over time. We combined station data with the observations of herders, who live on the land and observe nature and its changes across the landscape. Station-based trends were computed with the Mann-Kendall significance and Theil-Sen rate of change tests. We surveyed herders about their observations of changes in rain and snowfall amounts, rain intensity, and days with snow, using a closed-ended questionnaire and also recorded their qualitative observations. Herder responses were summarized using the Potential for Conflict Index (PCI 2 ), which computes the mean herder responses and their consensus. For one set of stations in the same forest steppe ecosystem, precipitation trends were similar and decreasing, and the herder-based PCI 2 consensus score matched differences between stations. For the other station set, trends were less consistent and the PCI 2 consensus did not match well, since the stations had different climates and ecologies. Herder and station-based uncertainties were more consistent for the snow variables than the rain variables. The combination of both data sources produced a robust estimate of climate change uncertainty.

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Linking Inuit knowledge and meteorological station observations to understand changing wind patterns at Clyde River, Nunavut

Cited by 142 publications

References 17 publications

Indigenous Past Climate Knowledge as Cultural Built-in Object and Its Accuracy

Indigenous Past Climate Knowledge as Cultural Built-in Object and Its Accuracy

Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change

Merging Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Station Observations to Estimate the Uncertainty of Precipitation Change in Central Mongolia

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