Network of Indigenous Knowledge

土著知识网络

• 批准号: 1262332
• 负责人: Jonathan Waterhouse
• 金额: $ 4.41万
• 依托单位: Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262332&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Network; Indigenous; Knowledge

This award funds a workshop to bring together indigenous cultural representatives from the great river basins of the Yukon and the Amazon with environmental scientists to share information and formulate plans for research on themes that highlight the long-term sustainability of rivers and the health and well-being of the people who live along them. Although the Amazon is a long way from the Arctic, their is a good argument for the need to connect the communities of river systems around the globe in order to better understand the effects of resource development, urbanization, and environmental change on these important fresh water systems. Although the global environmental change signal is strongest in the Arctic it is having an effect on other global river systems. And while urbanization and resource development may have a larger signal in the Amazon in all but the Russian arctic, these processes are spreading across the Circumpolar North. The PI and his collaborators view this workshop as a starting point a larger network of Indigenous Peoples and scientists working together to increase our understanding of these fresh water systems and ensure their long term sustainability and sustainable use. It is the vision of the research team that future workshops will include the Lena, Nile, Ganges, Yangtze, Gironde, Mississippi and the McKenzie Rivers and ultimately the Ocean Peoples of Polynesia. The five-day workshop will be held in Timpia, Peru, fall 2013 with the specific goals to: gather and compare observations and experiences from workshop participants around issues of water and rivers, and how they have been impacted by landscape and environmental change; seek consensus among the participants about specific kinds of capacity development and action around water issues that may be needed to address community needs; introduce and train participants in methods of community-based water monitoring; introduce and train participants in methods of digital media and storytelling; identify methods for developing and maintaining community and information exchange among workshop participants, including the possible establishment of a global network centered around indigenous communities and rivers. Additional subjects explored during the workshop will be indigenous narratives of how rivers may have changed due to landscape and environmental change, both contemporary and traditional, in order to gain more insights into how communities have responded to these challenges and their dynamic effects on local social and cultural systems. Also discussed by workshop participants will be how modern science contributes tools and additional perspectives to understanding changes in the riverine environment. And, how science and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) can work together for the benefit of indigenous communities. The workshop will include strong participation from both indigenous communities and the scientific community and thus will increase the participation of highly underrepresented groups in science.

该奖项资助举办一个研讨会，将来自育空地区和亚马逊大河流域的土著文化代表与环境科学家聚集在一起，分享信息并制定研究计划，研究主题强调河流的长期可持续性以及河流的长期可持续性。生活在河流沿岸的人们的健康和福祉。沿着他们。 尽管亚马逊河距离北极很远，但它们是一个很好的论据，说明需要将地球仪周围的河流系统社区连接起来，以便更好地了解资源开发、城市化和环境变化对这些重要淡水系统的影响。虽然全球环境变化的信号在北极最强，但它也对其他全球河流系统产生影响。 虽然城市化和资源开发可能在亚马逊地区（除了俄罗斯北极地区）有更大的信号，但这些过程正在整个北极圈蔓延。 PI和他的合作者将这次研讨会视为一个起点，一个更大的土著人民和科学家网络，共同努力，以增加我们对这些淡水系统的了解，并确保其长期可持续性和可持续利用。 研究小组的设想是，未来的讲习班将包括勒拿河、尼罗河、恒河、长江、吉伦特河、密西西比河和麦肯齐河，并最终包括波利尼西亚的海洋民族。为期五天的讲习班将于2013年秋季在秘鲁的廷皮亚举行，具体目标是：收集和比较讲习班与会者关于水和河流问题的意见和经验，以及它们如何受到地貌和环境变化的影响;寻求与会者就解决社区需求可能需要的水问题的具体能力发展和行动达成共识;向参与者介绍和培训基于社区的水监测方法;向参与者介绍和培训数字媒体和讲故事的方法;确定发展和维持研讨会参与者之间的社区和信息交流的方法，包括可能建立一个以土著社区为中心的全球网络和河流。 讲习班期间探讨的其他主题将是土著人叙述河流如何由于当代和传统的景观和环境变化而发生变化，以便更深入地了解社区如何应对这些挑战及其对当地社会和文化制度的动态影响。研讨会与会者还将讨论现代科学如何为理解河流环境的变化提供工具和更多的视角。以及科学和传统生态知识（TEK）如何共同为土著社区的利益而努力。 土著社区和科学界都将积极参加讲习班，从而提高科学界代表性严重不足的群体的参与程度。