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

该奖项将支持2012年2月在尼泊尔Tsum山谷举办的方法和技术讲习班，该地区最近才对外国游客开放。 讲习班将汇集气候科学家、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Tsum山谷的尼泊尔人，比较用于记录各自区域气候变化影响的方法和技术。 这次研讨会是在以前的探索性研究小额赠款的基础上举办的，该研究试图比较阿拉斯加高纬度地区和尼泊尔高海拔地区土著人民通过其传统知识体系应对气候变化的经验。这两个地区都有土著居民，他们的文化、社会组织和经济都与当地景观密切相关。通过探讨是否有可能比较这两个在文化和环境方面似乎非常不同的地区，研究小组得以确定气候变化对土著人民的一些全球影响。 讲习班的目的是分享北极土著社区采用的社区研究和监测办法，以确定这些办法是否适合尼泊尔农村人使用。世界自然基金会尼泊尔办事处和Rinjan Shrestha博士正在尼泊尔积极开展工作，建立健全的环境管理做法，以管理徒步旅行，减轻冰川退缩和气候变化其他方面的影响。两名科学家和三名在社区办法方面有经验的北极土著人将与Rinjan一起乘直升机从加德满都前往Tsum山谷，在那里与当地居民会晤一周，并演示和讨论各种方法和相关设备。研究小组将探讨如何在尼泊尔农村地区使用这种方法（例如，电池充电、数据下载等），以及当地居民和科学家（如Rinjan）视为监测重点的参数。北极土著与会者将能够讨论在实地使用这些装置的实际问题，并能够帮助Tsum Valley居民查明和克服在该地区使用这些装置的重大障碍。在Tsum Valley研讨会之后，我们将与Rinjan在加德满都的同事会面，讨论Igliniit系统的其他应用潜力，以及尼泊尔和北极之间的其他潜在合作。

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.