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Forecasting with fishers: co-producing knowledge for early warning of extreme weather events on the coast of South India

与渔民预报：共同开发南印度海岸极端天气事件预警知识

基本信息

批准号：
ES/T003103/1
负责人：
Filippo Osella
金额：
$ 74.19万
依托单位：
University of Sussex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT003103%2F1
关键词：
Forecasting fishers co producing knowledge

项目摘要

The proposed multi-disciplinary project aims to making South Indian artisanal fishers' livelihoods more secure and sustainable by improving safety at sea. Bringing together these small-scale fishers with weather forecasters and government agencies, it will devise, test and promote effective means for the co-production and communication of accurate weather forecasts, thus increasing resilience of the fishers amidst a trend of extreme and hazardous weather conditions in a changing climate. Moreover, the project will devise an "action template" of practical methods and a road-map for co-producing and communicating accessible and effective weather forecasts to artisanal fishers elsewhere in India and beyond. It will also contribute to academic debates concerning: the understanding and response to environmental risks; the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in disseminating information and warnings to diverse and vulnerable populations; and the knowledge, practices and livelihoods of fishing communities in Asia. The main objective of the proposed project is to close the gap between what marine weather forecasters produce and disseminate, and what artisanal fishers recognize as relevant and actionable inputs for decision-making. Access to trusted and actionable forecasts helps fishers make informed decisions to go to sea or not under hazardous weather conditions, thus reducing risk of potentially life-threatening accidents at sea, diminishing the loss of gear and boats, and, more generally, building resilience against hazardous weather conditions. Such weather-resilient pathways will contribute to promoting more secure and sustainable livelihoods for artisanal fishers in India and elsewhere in the Global South. This project will be part of a larger effort called the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) to provide science relevant for implementing the SDGs in seventeen low and medium income countries. Drawing on the expertise of a multi-disciplinary research team--comprising anthropologists, geographers, atmospheric and marine scientists, and ICT and media experts - the proposed project combines complementary methodological approaches. It utilizes ethnographic methods to study the wider social, economic and cultural practices underpinning artisanal fishing, as well as to gauge fishers' forecast usage and uptake. It uses satellite and in-situ weather observations to gain insights into changing hazard patterns and forecast challenges, as well as to acquire the necessary data to co-produce area-specific weather forecasts with fishers, forecasters and other stakeholders. It will employ participatory approaches and technologies developed in the fields of human-computer interaction and ICT4D to co-produce and test effective, culturally appropriate communication platforms to disseminate weather forecast and provide feedback on the same. To account for variations in fishing techniques and technologies, and in the socio-economic organization of fishing, as well as different forms of social organization and cultural orientations the field-research will take place in three different fishing communities. These will be located, respectively, in Kanyakumari, Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts in South India, a stretch of coast with one of the densest concentrations of artisanal fishers in Asia, using diverse craft, gear and fishing methods in a geographically diverse setting.

拟议的多学科项目旨在通过改善海上安全，使南印度个体渔民的生计更加安全和可持续。它将这些小规模渔民与天气预报员和政府机构聚集在一起，设计、测试和推广共同制作和传播准确天气预报的有效手段，从而提高渔民在气候变化中极端和危险天气条件趋势中的适应能力。此外，该项目将设计一个实用方法的“行动模板”和路线图，用于共同制作和向印度其他地方和其他地方的个体渔民传达可获得的有效天气预报。它还将促进关于以下问题的学术辩论：对环境风险的理解和应对;信息和通信技术在向各种弱势群体传播信息和警报方面的作用;亚洲渔业社区的知识、做法和生计。拟议项目的主要目标是缩小海洋气象预报员制作和传播的内容与个体渔民认为对决策具有相关性和可采取行动的投入之间的差距。获得可信和可操作的预报有助于渔民在危险天气条件下做出是否出海的明智决定，从而降低海上可能危及生命的事故风险，减少渔具和船只的损失，更广泛地说，建立抵御危险天气条件的能力。这种气候适应性强的途径将有助于促进印度和全球南方其他地区个体渔民更安全和可持续的生计。该项目将是苏塞克斯可持续发展研究计划（SSRP）的一部分，该计划旨在为17个中低收入国家实施可持续发展目标提供相关科学。拟议项目利用一个多学科研究小组的专门知识，其中包括人类学家、地理学家、大气和海洋科学家以及信通技术和媒体专家，并结合了相辅相成的方法。它利用人种学方法来研究支持个体渔业的更广泛的社会、经济和文化习俗，并衡量渔民的预测使用和吸收情况。它利用卫星和现场天气观测来深入了解不断变化的灾害模式和预报挑战，并获取必要的数据，与渔民、预报员和其他利益攸关方共同制作特定地区的天气预报。它将采用在人机互动和信通技术促发展领域开发的参与性方法和技术，共同制作和测试有效的、文化上适当的通信平台，以传播天气预报并提供反馈。为了说明捕鱼技术和技术的变化，以及捕鱼的社会经济组织，以及不同形式的社会组织和文化取向，实地研究将在三个不同的捕鱼社区进行。这些中心将分别设在印度南部的Kanyakumari、Thiruvananthapuram和Kollam地区，这是亚洲手工渔民密集的海岸地带之一，他们在地理环境多样的情况下使用各种工艺、渔具和捕鱼方法。