Indigenous Knowledge of Hydrologic Change in the Yukon River Basin: A Case Study of Ruby, Alaska
Indigenous Knowledge of Hydrologic Change in the Yukon River Basin: A Case Study of Ruby, Alaska
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育空河流域水文变化的土著知识：阿拉斯加鲁比的案例研究
DOI：
10.14430/arctic4459
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
J. Waterhouse
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作者：
N. J. Wilson;M. Walter;J. Waterhouse
在北极和亚北极，土著知识对理解环境变化的贡献在过去几十年中已经确立。本文探讨了水的土著知识在理解复杂的社会生态系统中的水文变化的作用。水文观测在育空地区河流域，贡献了20个社区专家从红宝石村，阿拉斯加，在半结构化的采访中，从科学文献的调查结果进行比较，以说明的共性和差异。研究结果揭示了土著知识对理解育空地区河及其支流水文变化的贡献，其中包括对沉积物和河冰状况变化的见解。建议未来的研究，结合水的土著知识，以深入了解流域水文变化，包括结合多个案例研究，分布在地理上。我们的研究结果表明：1）使用参与式研究方法进行研究将有助于确保其生计受到水文变化影响的社区受益，2）将社会和生物物理科学的定性和定量方法相结合的多学科方法将最有效地帮助我们理解和应对水文变化。
In the Arctic and Subarctic, the contribution of Indigenous knowledge to understanding environmental change has been established over the last several decades. This paper explores the role of Indigenous knowledge of water in understanding hydrologic change within complex social-ecological systems. Observations of hydrology in the Yukon River Basin, contributed by 20 community experts from Ruby Village, Alaska, in semi-structured interviews, are compared with findings from scientific literature to illustrate the commonalities and differences. Research findings reveal the contribution of Indigenous knowledge to understandings of hydrologic change in the Yukon River and its tributaries, which includes insights regarding alterations in sediment and river ice regimes. Recommendations for future research that incorporates Indigenous knowledge of water to gain insight into hydrologic changes in the watershed include combining multiple case studies that are distributed geographically. Our findings suggest 1) that using participatory research approaches to research will help ensure that it benefits the communities whose livelihoods are affected by hydrologic changes, and 2) that a multidisciplinary approach that combines qualitative and quantitative methods from the social and biophysical sciences would be most effective to help us understand and respond to hydrologic changes.