Increasing Indigenous Use of Scientific and Traditional Knowledge in Resource Management and Policy in the Arctic

该项目将支持北极土著人民参加2009年10月举行的Sosnovka联盟年会。 索斯诺夫卡会议汇集了国际科学家，环境倡导者和俄罗斯政策制定者，讨论政府政策对土著环境和资源的影响。 这个项目将使更多和更多样化的土著人民、布里亚特人、楚科奇人、埃文克人、伊特尔门人、萨哈人、肖尔人和乌德盖人参加会议。 这些文化团体的许多成员通过太平洋环境组织积极参与了将科学和传统知识纳入公共政策和治理的项目，该组织是一个关注俄罗斯治理和环境的非政府组织;虽然有些与会者在地理上并不属于北极地区，但南西伯利亚人民布里亚特人、绍尔人、萨哈人和乌德盖人以及北方西伯利亚人民的参与，楚科奇人、埃文克人和伊特尔门人在这次会议上将促进知识和培训的分享。 北极社会科学计划的目标之一是让社区参与科学，同样重要的是让科学家参与北极社区最关心的问题。 机场联盟会议是一个应用科学会议，它汇集了科学和社区成员，沿着政策制定者，讨论他们的共同利益-他们如何能够提供最好的知识（科学和传统的）决策者，当决策对社区的关切至关重要时，例如：自然资源开发、渔猎法规、经济发展计划、交通走廊等，这些决定有可能影响北极以及俄罗斯其他地区的土著生活方式，因此也是农村居民最关心的问题。 索斯诺夫卡会议是一个社区可以学习如何将最佳信息带到政策桌上的空间;如何代表土著社区利益提出最有说服力的论点;以及如何在这一过程中与科学家合作。 该项目通过科学家和土著知识学者在关于野生动物栖息地、环境政策、土著管理制度和资源开发战略问题的会议对话中的合作而引人注目。 此外，将代表性不足的群体的声音带到科学家面前，为公共政策决策提供信息，是一个重要的科学目标。 此外，该项目还将邀请5名土著青年领袖参加并制定青年机场计划，以培养下一代科学家和环境保护主义者，并鼓励建立一个以良好科学数据为基础的公共政策模式，机场项目的成果将通过非政府组织、科学家、科学和土著组织及其他组织的信件、网站和邮件列表广泛传播。包括国内媒体。 这一传播计划扩大了项目的广泛影响。

This project will support the participation of Arctic indigenous peoples at the annual Sosnovka Coalition Meeting in October 2009. The Sosnovka conference brings together international scientists, environmental advocates, and Russian policy makers to discuss the effects of governmental policy on indigenous environments and resources. This project will bring a larger and more diverse group of indigenous people, Buryat, Chukchi, Evenk, Itelmen, Sakha, Shor and Udege people to the conference. Many of the members of these cultural groups have been strongly involved in projects through Pacific Environment, an NGO that focuses on governance and the environment in Russia, that incorporate scientific and traditional knowledge into public policy and governance; and although some of the participants are not geographically Arctic, the participation of the southern Siberian people, Buryat, Shor, Sakha and Udege, with northern Siberian peoples, Chukchi, Evenk, and Itelmen in this conference will facilitate the sharing of knowledge and training. One of the goals of the Arctic Social Sciences Program is to engage communities in science and equally important is to engage scientists in the issues that are of most concern to Arctic communities. The Sosnovka Coalition conference is very much an applied science conference, it brings together science and community members, along with policy makers, to discuss their mutual interests - how they can provide the best knowledge (scientific and traditional) to policy makers when decisions are of critical importance to the concerns of communities, such as: natural resource development, fishing and hunting regulations, economic development plans, transportation corridors, etc. These decisions have the potential to affect indigenous lifeways in the Arctic, as well as other regions in Russia, and thus are of greatest concern to rural residents. The Sosnovka conference is a space where communities can learn how to bring the best information to the policy table; how to make the most cogent argument on behalf of indigenous community interests; and how to partner with scientists in this process. This project is notable through the collaboration of scientists and indigenous knowledge scholars in the conference dialog on issues of wildlife habitat, environmental policy, indigenous management regimes, and resource development strategies. In addition bringing the voices of under-respresented groups to the table with scientists to inform public policy decisions is an important science goal. In addition, the project will bring 5 young indigenous leaders to participate and develop the Young Sosnovka program to entrain the next generation of scientists and environmentalist and encourage a model of public policy based on good scientific data.The results of the Sosnovka project will be disseminated broadly through letters, web sites and listserves of NGOs, scientists, scientific and indigenous organizations, and others, including the national press. This dissemination plan adds to the broader impacts of the project.