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

该项目的主要目标是评估知识，弹性适应能力和政策需求的北方俄罗斯村庄经历前所未有的气候变化，该项目的主要目标是评估农村ViliuiSakha社区，一个地理和种族代表性不足的群体，在西伯利亚东北部，俄罗斯，谁面临着一个不确定的未来，由于全球气候变化（GCC）的前所未有的地方影响。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，反应和有效解决海湾合作委员会当地问题的方法。该项目是一项为期三年的四个村庄的合作努力，参与者包括村庄居民、当地专家和实地助理、国内研究界和国际合作者。PI Crate项目已经与目标社区合作了16年，能够流利地使用萨哈族和俄语。Crate的2003-2006年社区可持续性项目显示，Viliui Sakha居民认为海湾合作委员会对当地的影响是他们继续生存和居住的最大障碍。拟议的项目是该研究的继续，通过评估有关海湾合作委员会对社区、地区和共和国层面的当地影响的知识，以破译已知的和需要了解的内容，以填补知识空白并为社区生活提供积极的信息。该项目的目标是：（1）建立社区一级过去和现在关于气候变化的知识和适应的名册;（2）利用这些名册数据制定措施，衡量面临气候变化的家庭和社区的复原力和适应能力;（3）记录当地老年人关于气候变化的知识，这些知识既适用又实用，可用于当代村级适应计划; 4）调查有关海湾合作委员会的西方科学（从国内开始，向国际发展），以填补地方知识的空白，促进社区一级的适应和理解; 5）评估地方、区域、共和国和国家各级政策努力的效用，并提出相应建议。本研究采用焦点小组、半结构式访谈、问卷调查和二手资料分析等方法，通过四个方面促进研究与教育的结合：（1）在四个村社区和村级研究助理的积极参与下进行实地研究; 2）与国内研究团队合作; 3）在项目期间与研究助理和两名研究生合作; 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，并通过与国内研究机构和气候问题方面的其他伙伴合作，该项目将加强研究和教育网络及伙伴关系的基础设施。项目小组将通过学术和非学术出版物、一个项目网站，并通过编制一套资源材料，向对社区气候变化项目感兴趣的其他人提供，广泛传播项目的成果，以提高科学和技术认识。拟议的活动旨在通过以下方式在多个层面造福社会：提高对海湾合作委员会对目标社区的当地影响的认识;制作资源材料，与其他人口分享这一知识;为决策提供信息;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.