Himalayan-Arctic Exchange Phase II: A Workshop to Transfer Methods of Community-Based Monitoring from Nunavut to Nepal

喜马拉雅-北极交换第二阶段：将社区监测方法从努勒维特转移到尼泊尔的研讨会

• 批准号: 1148301
• 负责人: Henry Huntington
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Huntington Consulting
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1148301&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Himalayan; Arctic; Exchange; Phase; II

This award will support, in February 2012, a methods and technology workshop in the Tsum Valley of Nepal, a region only recently opened to foreign visitors. The workshop will bring climate scientists, Arctic peoples, Inuit of Clyde River Canada, together with high altitude peoples, Nepali of Tsum Valley Nepal, to compare methods and technologies that are being utilized to record the effects of climate change in their respective regions. This workshop builds on a previous Small Grant for Exploratory Research that sought to compare indigenous people's in high latitudes, Alaska, and high altitudes, Nepal, experiences of climate change through their traditional knowledge systems. Both regions have indigenous populations whose cultures, social organization, and economies are intimately tied to the landscape. By exploring the possibility of being able to compare these two seemingly very different regions, culturally and environmentally, the research team was able to identify some of the pan-global effects of climate change among indigenous peoples. The goal of the workshop is to share community-based research and monitoring approaches used in Arctic indigenous communities to determine their suitability for use by rural Nepalis. WWF-Nepal and Dr. Rinjan Shrestha are actively working there to establish sound environmental management practices to govern trekking and to mitigate impacts of glacial retreat and other aspects of climate change. Two scientists and three Arctic indigenous persons with experience in community-based approaches will travel with Rinjan by helicopter from Kathmandu to the Tsum Valley and spend a week there meeting with local residents and demonstrating and discussing methods and associated equipment. The research team will explore the ways in which this approach can be used in rural Nepal (e.g., battery charging, data downloading, etc.), and the parameters that local residents and scientists such as Rinjan see as the priorities for monitoring. The Arctic indigenous participants will be able to discuss practical aspects of the use of the units in the field, and can help Tsum Valley residents identify and overcome significant obstacles to their use in the area. Following the Tsum Valley workshop, we will meet with Rinjan's colleagues in Kathmandu to discuss the potential for other applications of the Igliniit system, as well as other potential collaborations between Nepal and the Arctic.

该奖项将于2012年2月支持尼泊尔塔苏姆山谷的方法和技术研讨会，该地区直到最近向外国游客开放。 该研讨会将带来加拿大克莱德河的气候科学家，北极人民，加拿大克莱德河的因纽特人，以及高海拔人民，尼泊尔的尼泊尔尼泊尔人，比较被用来记录其各自地区气候变化影响的方法和技术。 该研讨会建立在先前的探索性研究的基础上，该探索性研究试图比较高纬度地区的土著人民，阿拉斯加和高海拔，尼泊尔，通过其传统知识系统的气候变化经历。这两个地区都有土著人口，其文化，社会组织和经济与景观密切相关。通过探索能够在文化和环境上比较这两个看似截然不同的地区的可能性，研究小组能够确定土著人民气候变化的某些泛全球影响。 研讨会的目的是共享北极土著社区中使用的基于社区的研究和监测方法，以确定其适用于农村尼泊尔人的使用。 WWF-Nepal和Rinjan Shrestha博士在那里积极努力建立合理的环境管理实践，以管理徒步旅行，并减轻冰川静修和气候变化的其他方面的影响。两名科学家和三个具有社区方法经验的北极土著人将由直升机从加德满都与林扬（Rinjan）一起旅行，从加德满都到Tsum Valley，并在那里与当地居民相遇一个星期，并展示和讨论和讨论方法和相关设备。研究团队将探讨这种方法可以在尼泊尔农村（例如，电池充电，数据下载等）中使用的方式，以及当地居民和科学家（例如Rinjan）将其视为监视的优先级的参数。北极土著参与者将能够讨论该领域使用这些单位的实际方面，并可以帮助TSUM Valley居民识别并克服对其在该地区使用的重大障碍。在TSUM Valley研讨会之后，我们将与加德满都的Rinjan的同事会面，讨论Igliniit系统其他应用的潜力，以及尼泊尔与北极之间的其他潜在合作。