Climate change in context: putting people first in the Arctic
Climate change in context: putting people first in the Arctic
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DOI：
10.1007/s10113-019-01478-8
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Stammler, Florian
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作者：
Huntington, Henry P.;Carey, Mark;Stammler, Florian
气候变化是北极和其他土著人民面临的一个重大挑战，但不是唯一的，往往也不是最紧迫的挑战。我们建议在政策和研究中重新制定气候变化的处理方法，以确保健康，贫困，教育，文化活力，公平，正义以及人们自己强调的其他主题，而不仅仅是气候科学，也在全球和区域环境变化研究中得到应有的关注。气候变化往往会加剧其他问题，但在现有的许多关于北极和其他地方的环境文献中，只关注气候变化往往会分散人们对现在可以采取的改善北极人民生活的行动的注意力。同样的逻辑也适用于世界其他地方，不同的居民面临着一系列挑战，机遇和障碍，气候变化只是众多问题之一。我们提出的区域和全球环境变化研究方法借鉴了非殖民化的思想，强调协作方法和研究和政策中的土著声音，而不是在受影响社区之外设计的自上而下的措施。只有以这种方式将人类-环境的经历联系起来，才能充分理解气候变化的影响，并制定和执行适当的对策，以适应全球变化。
Climate change is a major challenge to Arctic and other Indigenous peoples, but not the only and often not the most pressing one. We propose re-framing the treatment of climate change in policy and research, to make sure health, poverty, education, cultural vitality, equity, justice, and other topics highlighted by the people themselves and not just climate science also get the attention they deserve in research on global and regional environmental change. Climate change can often exacerbate other problems, but a singular focus on climate changeas is often the case in much existing environmental literature on the Arctic and elsewherecan distract from actions that can be taken now to improve the lives of Arctic peoples. The same logic also applies elsewhere in the world, where diverse residents face a host of challenges, opportunities, and obstacles, with climate change but one among many issues. Our proposed approach to regional and global environmental change research draws on the ideas of decolonization, emphasizing collaborative approaches and Indigenous voices in research and policy instead of top-down measures designed outside the affected communities. Only in this way of contextualizing human-environmental experiences can the full effects of climate change be understoodand appropriate responses developed and carried out to adapt to global change.