Assessing Knowledge, Resilience & Adaptation and Policy Needs in Northern Russian Villages Experiencing Unprecedented Climate Change

项目摘要评估经历前所未有的气候变化的俄罗斯北部村庄的知识、复原力和适应能力以及政策需求本项目的主要目标是评估俄罗斯西伯利亚东北部农村Viliui Sakha社区的知识、复原力和适应能力和政策需求，这是一个地理和种族代表性不足的群体，由于前所未有的全球气候变化的局部影响，他们面临着不确定的未来(GCC)。该项目旨在通过与社区合作来实现这一目标，探索当地的看法、反应和方法，以有效地解决GCC的当地问题。该项目是一项为期三年的四个村庄的合作努力，包括村庄居民、当地专家和外地助理、国内研究界和国际合作者的参与。皮克拉特项目已经与目标社区合作了16年，能够流利地讲当地的萨哈语和俄语。克拉特2003年至2006年的社区可持续发展项目显示，Viliui Sakha居民认为GCC对当地的影响是他们继续生存和居住的最大障碍。拟议的项目是这项研究的继续，通过评估有关GCC对社区、地区和共和国各级地方影响的知识，以破译哪些是已知的，哪些是需要了解的，以填补知识空白并积极宣传社区生活。项目目标是：1)编制关于气候变化的过去和现在的知识和适应情况的社区一级名册；2)利用这些名册数据制定措施，衡量GCC所面对的家庭和社区的适应能力和适应能力；3)记录当地长老关于气候变化的知识，这些知识既适用又实用，可用于当代的村级适应计划；4)对GCC的相关西方科学进行调查(从国内开始并走向国际)，以填补当地知识的空白，促进社区一级的适应和理解；5)评估地方、地区、共和国和国家各级的政策努力的效用，并提出相应的建议。可采用的方法包括：焦点小组、半结构访谈、调查和二次数据分析。本研究通过促进发现和理解，同时促进教学、培训和学习，将研究和教育结合在一起：1)在四个村庄社区和村级研究助理的积极参与下进行我们的实地研究；2)与国内研究团队合作；3)在项目持续时间内与一名研究助理和两名研究生合作；以及4)与国际研究伙伴合作。通过在地方、区域和共和国各级开展工作，并通过与国内研究所和其他伙伴就气候问题开展合作，该项目将加强研究和教育网络及伙伴关系的基础设施。项目组将通过学术和非学术出版物、项目网站，以及为对社区气候变化项目感兴趣的其他人提供一套资源材料，广泛传播项目成果，以增进对科学和技术的了解。拟议的活动旨在从多个层面造福社会，通过增加对GCC对目标社区的当地影响的了解，通过制作资源材料与其他人群分享这一知识，为政策决策提供信息，并加强研究合作和交流。

PROJECT ABSTRACTAssessing Knowledge, Resilience & Adaptation and Policy Needs in Northern Russian Villages Experiencing Unprecedented Climate ChangeThis project's primary objective is to assess the knowledge, resilience & adaptation, and policy needs of rural Viliui Sakha communities, a geographically and ethnically underrepresented group in northeastern Siberia, Russia, who face an uncertain future due to the unprecedented local effects of global climate change (GCC). The project aims to fulfill that objective by partnering with communities to explore local perceptions, responses, and ways to effectively address the local issues of GCC. The project is a four-village, three-year collaborative effort involving participation of village residents, native specialists and field assistants, an in-country research community and international collaborators. The project PI Crate has worked with the targeted communities for sixteen years and is fluent in both the native Sakha and Russian languages. Crate's 2003-2006 community sustainability project revealed that Viliui Sakha inhabitants consider the local effects of GCC to be their most substantial barrier to continued subsistence and residency. The proposed project represents a continuation of that research by assessing knowledge about the local impacts of GCC on the community, regional and Republic levels in order to decipher what is known and what needs to be known to fill knowledge gaps and positively inform community life. The project objectives are to: 1) Develop community-levels rosters of past and present knowledge of and adaptation to climate change; 2) Operationalize those roster data to develop measures and gauge the resilience and adaptive capacity of households and communities facing GCC; 3) Document local elders' knowledge about climate change that is both applicable and pragmatic for use in contemporary village-level adaptive schemes; 4) Survey the relevant western science on GCC (beginning in-country and moving to international) in order to fill the gaps in local knowledge to facilitate community-level adaptation and understanding; 5) Appraise policy efforts at the local, regional, Republic and national levels for their utility and make recommendations accordingly. Methods to be employed include: focus groups, semi-structured interviews, surveys and secondary data analysis.This study integrates research and education by advancing discovery and understanding while at the same time promoting teaching, training, and learning in at least four substantial ways: 1) by conducting our field research with the active participation of four village communities and village-level research assistants; 2) by collaborating with an in-country research team; 3) by working with a research assistant and two graduate students for the project's duration; and 4) by collaborating with an international research partner. By working at the local, regional and Republic levels and through collaborating with the in-country research institute and other partners on climate issues, the project will enhance the infrastructure for research and education networks and partnerships. The project team will disseminate the results of the project widely to enhance scientific and technological understanding via academic and non-academic publications, a project website, and by generating a set of resource materials available to others interested in community based climate change projects. The proposed activity is designed to benefit society on several levels, by increasing the understanding of the local effects of GCC for the targeted communities, by producing resource materials to share that knowledge with other populations, to inform policy decisions, and to enhance research collaborations and exchanges.