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气候变化的俄罗斯北部村庄的知识、恢复力、适应能力和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一个地理和种族代表性不足的群体vililiui Sakha农村社区的知识、恢复力、适应能力和政策需求，由于全球气候变化（GCC）的前所未有的局部影响，他们面临着不确定的未来。该项目旨在通过与社区合作，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，从而实现这一目标。该项目是一项为期三年的四个村庄合作项目，涉及村庄居民、当地专家和实地助理、国内研究界和国际合作者的参与。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语和俄语。Crate 2003-2006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。拟议的项目是该研究的延续，通过评估关于海湾合作委员会对社区、区域和共和国各级的地方影响的知识，以解读已知和需要了解的内容，以填补知识空白并积极地为社区生活提供信息。该项目的目标是：1)建立社区一级过去和现在对气候变化的认识和适应的名册；2)将这些名册数据付诸实施，以制定措施并衡量面临海湾合作委员会的家庭和社区的复原力和适应能力；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，可用于当代村级适应性方案；4)调查有关GCC的西方科学（从国内开始，向国际发展），以填补当地知识的空白，促进社区层面的适应和理解；5)评估地方、区域、共和国和国家各级的政策努力的效用，并提出相应的建议。采用的方法包括：焦点小组、半结构化访谈、调查和二手数据分析。本研究将研究和教育结合起来，通过促进发现和理解，同时通过至少四个实质性的方式促进教学、培训和学习：1)在四个村庄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)在项目期间与一名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，并与国内研究机构和其他合作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。项目小组将通过学术和非学术出版物、项目网站以及编制一套资源材料，广泛传播项目结果，以增进科学和技术的了解，供对社区气候变化项目感兴趣的其他人使用。拟议的活动的目的是在几个层面上使社会受益：增加对GCC对目标社区的地方影响的了解，制作资源材料与其他人口分享这些知识，为决策提供信息，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.