Climate Change and Community-Based Relocation

该奖项将资助一个参与性和协商性讲习班，使阿拉斯加纽托克的Yup'ik和巴布亚新几内亚卡特雷特群岛的人民这两个土著群体聚集在一起，探讨站在全球气候变化第一线的社会和文化影响。纽托克和卡特雷特群岛的居民是北极和小岛屿发展中国家日益扩大的网络的一部分，这些国家的社区首先受到气候引起的环境变化的影响。纽托克是阿拉斯加西部的一个白令海社区，由于村庄底层的恶化而被迫搬迁;巴布亚新几内亚的卡特雷特群岛由于海平面上升而被迫搬迁-这些岛屿平均海拔只有1.2米，自1994年以来已经失去了超过50%的陆地面积。正如PI所述，“降低脆弱性和实施气候变化适应措施对于确保这两个地区土著社区的复原力至关重要”，本次研讨会是理解这一进程的第一步。作为旨在通过社区讨论启动任何研究或评估项目的社区参与进程的一部分，该项目将促进一项研究议程，该议程将参考受影响社区本身的当地知识和目标。该项目是实施评估或科学研究计划的第一步，以了解和促进北极和小岛屿发展中国家社区的长期可持续性和复原力，气候引起的生态变化正在影响居住在这些地区的人们的健康和福祉。通过将在巴布亚新几内亚布卡开始的为期10天的社区参与进程，Yup'ik人将与卡特雷特岛人民合作，以便更好地确定和理解最终搬迁的决策过程。研讨会将是一个社区与社区之间的互动，分享经验，参观社区网站，与当地政府官员交谈，并为面临类似挑战的其他社区制定指导原则和能力建设纲要。该项目将通过社区参与进程，促进更广泛地了解围绕人口移徙的社会和文化挑战，这有可能为研究这些进程的研究人员创造新的范例。虽然将两个社区，一个是北极，一个是南太平洋，结合在一起是一小步，但它是创造关于社区如何受到影响和适应这些环境变化的新知识的关键一步。从北极社会科学方案支持的科学研究中，我们知道，社区重新安置可能对健康和福祉以及文化和语言生存产生灾难性影响（Marino和金斯顿，两次“搬迁：国王岛民通过两次重新安置对社区的体验”，人类组织，第69卷）。N.2/Winter 2010，第119-128页）。该项目有可能将基于社区的观点和行动融入决策过程，我们从其他研究（《北极人类发展报告》）中了解到，这些观点和行动是北极和地球仪各地土著社区自决和最终长期可持续性的关键。

This award will fund a participatory and consultative workshop that brings together two indigenous groups, the Yup'ik of Newtok, Alaska and the people of the Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea, to explore the social and cultural ramifications of being on the front line of global climate change. The inhabitants of Newtok and the Carteret Islands are part of a growing network of Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) whose communities are the first to be affected by climate induced environmental change. Newtok is a western Alaska, Bering Sea community being forced to relocate due to the deterioration of the substrate that underlies their village; Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea, are being forced to relocate due to rising sea levels - the Islands on average are only 1.2 meters above sea level and have lost over 50% of their land mass since 1994. As the PI states, "reducing vulnerability and implementing adaptation to climate change are critical to ensure the resilience of indigenous communities in both regions" and this workshop is the first step in understanding that process. As part of a community participatory process that is designed to start any research or assessment project with community discussions, this project will facilitate a research agenda that is informed by the local knowledge and goals of the affected communities themselves. This project is the first step in implementing an assessment or scientific research plan for understanding and facilitating the long term sustainability and resilience of Arctic and SIDS communities where climate-induced ecological change are affecting the health and well-being of the people who inhabit these regions. Through a 10 day community participatory process that will start in Buka, Papua New Guinea, Yup'ik people will collaborate with Carteret Island people in order to better define and understand the decision making process that underlies their ultimate relocation. The workshop will be a community to community interaction of sharing experiences, visiting community sites, talking with local government officials, and creating an outline of guiding principles and capacity building for other communities facing similar challenges. This project will contribute to a broader understanding of the social and cultural challenges that surround population migration through a community participatory process, which has the potential to create new paradigms for researchers studying these processes. Although bringing together two communities, one Arctic, one South Pacific, is a small step it is a critical step toward creating new knowledge concerning how communities are affected by and adapting to these environmental changes. From scientific research supported by the Arctic Social Sciences Program we know that community resettlement can have disastrous effects on health and well-being, as well as cultural and linguistic survival (Marino and Kingston, Twice "Removed: King Islanders Experience of Community through Two Relocations," Human Organization, Vol. 69. N.2/Winter 2010, Pg. 119-128). This project has the potential to infuse decision making processes with community based perspectives and actions, which we know from other research (Arctic Human Development Report), are key to self determination and ultimately the long-term sustainability of indigenous communities across the Arctic and the Globe.