Pausing along the Journey: Learning Landscapes, Environmental Change, and Toponymy Amongst the Sikusilarmiut

Henshaw, Anne

doi:10.1353/arc.2011.0047

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“…The results of this study verify the idea expressed by Henshaw (2006), and thusat least in certain cases-place names, together with other data, can be used as environmental indicators of climate change.…”

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Wetland place names as indicators of manifestations of recent climate change in SW Spain (Doñana Natural Park)

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Recent studies have shown the value of place names as environmental indicators. Until now they have not been applied to the effects of climate change, because verifying such relationship by this approach requires a multidisciplinary analysis and a study area where the anthropic impact has been recent. This study aims to test the possibility in a study area little altered by man until the second half of the twentieth century (Doñana Natural Park, SW Spain), and with a heritage very rich in wetlands. The results show that the desiccation of these wetlands is reflected in the local toponymy, and that in turn this regression is related with the end of the Little Ice Age and with the beginning of warming in southern Europe during the twentieth century. The coincidence of these results with data published for Arctic latitudes reveals-in our opinion-the possibility that certain place names can be used as indicators of recent climate changes, at least in some ecosystems.

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confidence: 84%

“…However, we do not know of any study that has demonstrated how climate changes-or their manifestations-are perceived in place names, although Henshaw (2006) claims they can be used-jointly with other data-to identify environmental indicators of climate.…”

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Wetland place names as indicators of manifestations of recent climate change in SW Spain (Doñana Natural Park)

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“…The rise and democratization of digital tools offer new possibilities for achieving this objective. For example, some initiatives incorporate narratives into online interactive maps, as a means of reconciling incorporative and inscribing traditions (Henshaw, 2006). In the Sami area, some projects are including such approaches.…”

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“…Recently, disciplines such as ecology, archaeology, and geography have seized place names as witnesses of societal, environmental, and even ongoing climatic change, because they constitute historical landmarks and records (Huntington and Fox, 2005;Henshaw, 2006;Conedera et al, 2007). Some anthropologists, such as Boas as early as the 1880s (Müller-Wille and Weber, 1983) and Basso (1988) one century later, had already considered them to be portals to a society's culture, history, use, and perception of the environment.…”

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Sami Place Names and Maps: Transmitting Knowledge of a Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Contexts

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Roué

Roturier

2017

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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“…The probabilistic distribution of vegetation coverage degree is evenly. Information entropy of the number of phytotoponyms, altitude, slope and vegetation coverage degree was calculated by Equation (5). The results presented in Table 12.…”

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Phytotoponyms, Geographical Features and Vegetation Coverage in Western Hubei, China

Shi

Ren

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Entropy

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to present and exploit fundamental information, such as semantic meanings and geographical features, of phytotoponyms (a type of toponym that includes plant names) in Western Hubei (China). Long-term vegetation degradation is also estimated. Toponym data for this study were obtained from the place names database of Hubei Province at the Civil Affairs Department of Hubei. In total, 1259 instances of phytotoponyms were recognised; 898 (71.3%) were woody plant toponyms, and 361 (28.7%) were herbaceous plant toponyms. Subsequently, we randomly selected a similar number (1250) of non-phytotoponyms to compare with the phytotoponyms. All toponyms were localised and geo-referenced. The results showed that the most common plant names recognisable in place names are common plants that have a close connection with daily life and positive morals in Chinese culture and literature. The occurrence of plant names can reflect the characteristic plants of a city. The vegetation coverage rate where phytotoponyms are located is higher than that in non-phytotoponym areas. Altitude has a stronger correlation with the number of phytotoponyms than slope and vegetation coverage degree. The identification of long-term vegetation degradation based on phytotoponyms is presented for reference only, and other methods and materials are needed to validate these results. OPEN ACCESSEntropy 2015, 17 985

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Pausing along the Journey: Learning Landscapes, Environmental Change, and Toponymy Amongst the Sikusilarmiut

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Wetland place names as indicators of manifestations of recent climate change in SW Spain (Doñana Natural Park)

Wetland place names as indicators of manifestations of recent climate change in SW Spain (Doñana Natural Park)

Sami Place Names and Maps: Transmitting Knowledge of a Cultural Landscape in Contemporary Contexts

Phytotoponyms, Geographical Features and Vegetation Coverage in Western Hubei, China

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