Resilient Pastoralism:Towards Sustainable Futures in Rangelands

本项目通过全球牧民网络，参考肯尼亚和蒙古的案例研究国家，以及全球南方其他国家，重点关注牧民社区建设韧性所面临的挑战。通过整合最新可用的遥感（RS）数据集，采用创新的方法和方法来理解复原力的文化维度、意义和实践，并评估牧民和政策社区研究吸收和数据需求的障碍，我们将为牧民复原力的真正转变奠定基础。这不仅对牧民社区的生计至关重要，而且对实现当前的国家经济发展计划和愿望也至关重要。为了实现我们的项目目标，我们汇集了一个跨学科的团队，结合了遥感技术的专业知识；牧场管理;畜牧业的社会经济与治理；风险和危害评估；草地中人与环境的关系；文化地理学和畜牧人类学。这项工作的更广泛背景是，畜牧业作为全球约5亿人的核心生计战略的重要性，这些人通常生活在极易受气候变化影响的边缘旱地环境中，他们往往是最脆弱的社区。正如联合国环境署（2016年）关于可持续畜牧业的决议所强调的那样，加强对牧民生计和复原力的理解也是当代全球发展优先事项的核心，捐助者将当代畜牧业定位为实现《非洲2063》和联合国2030年发展议程的关键（粮农组织，2016年）。具体的挑战和问题包括缺乏对牧民复原力的文化特定意义、实践和优先事项的关注，以及牧民社区和政策制定者缺乏参与和吸收以前的研究和数据集的相关挑战。因此，在知识交流、沟通和翻译方面存在着明显的挑战，这阻碍了当地文化上有意义和有效的弹性和政策支持的发展。也缺乏对为什么会出现这种情况的理解，换句话说，利益相关者想要的东西没有被交付，以及如何解决这个问题。因此，我们的目标是i)从真正跨学科和本地/土著的角度提供对田园恢复力的新理解；Ii)对不同国家和不同牧区系统的牧区恢复力进行比较分析；iii)检查和测试增强数据集和输出的相关性和吸收的方法，包括通过检查新获得的遥感数据集；iv)通过关注复原力的文化含义和背景，历史和对人与自然关系的理解，以及与新的RS数据集集成的创新方法，以增强对障碍的理解，从而增强对未来研究数据的吸收，支持复原力的积极/当地所需维度。通过实现这些目标，我们的工作将通过增进了解和提供数据和知识交流来支持复原力，从而使当地牧民社区受益。对于政策制定者、捐助者和非政府组织，我们的工作将为牧民社区的信息需求和要求、吸收研究成果的障碍以及如何克服这些障碍提供明确的指导；政策制定者还将受益于与项目团队合作，将成果应用于与未来改善牧民生计有关的具体发展政策和议程。对于所有受益人，特别是从事田园恢复力工作的学者、捐助者和非政府组织，他们将受益于本项目期间试验和开发的新方法和跨学科方法。该项目还将为自然科学与社会科学、艺术与人文科学的持续辩论做出重要贡献。

This project focuses on the challenges of building resilience in pastoralist communities, with reference to case study countries of Kenya & Mongolia, & to other countries in the Global South, through global pastoralist networks. Through integrating newly available remote sensing (RS) datasets, with innovative approaches & methodologies for understanding cultural dimensions, meanings & practices of resilience & evaluating barriers to research uptake & data needs of both pastoralist & policy communities, we will lay the foundations for real transformations in pastoral resilience. This is vital not only for pastoralist communities' livelihoods, but for realisation of current national economic development plans & aspirations. In order to realise our project's goals we bring together an interdisciplinary team which combines expertise in remote sensing techniques; rangeland management; socio-economics & governance of pastoralism; assessment of risk & hazard; human-environment relations in rangelands; & cultural geographies & anthropologies of pastoralism. The wider context for this work is the importance of pastoralism as a central livelihood strategy for some 500 million people worldwide, typically in marginal dryland environments highly susceptible to climate change & who often number amongst the most vulnerable communities. Enhanced understandings of pastoral livelihoods & resilience are also central to contemporary global development priorities, as emphasised by UNEA (2016) resolution on sustainable pastoralism & by donors' positioning of contemporary pastoralism as essential to achievement of Africa 2063 as well as UN 2030 Development Agendas (FAO, 2016). Specific challenges & issues include the lack of attention to culturally specific meanings, practices & priorities around pastoral resilience, & the linked challenge of a lack of engagement & uptake of previous research & datasets by pastoralist communities & policy-makers. There are thus marked challenges in knowledge exchange, communication & translation, which hinder local development of culturally meaningful & effective resilience & policy support for this. There is also a lack of understanding of why this is the case, in other words of what stakeholders want that is not being delivered, & how can this be addressed. Our objectives are thus i) to provide new understandings of pastoral resilience from genuinely interdisciplinary & local/indigenous perspectives; ii) to derive comparative insights into pastoral resilience across diverse countries & pastoral systems; iii) to examine & test ways to enhance relevance & uptake of datasets & outputs, including through examination of newly available remote sensing datasets & iv) through attention to cultural meanings & contexts of resilience, histories & understandings of human-nature relationships, & innovative methods, integrated with new RS datasets, to enhance understanding of barriers to & thus to enhance uptake of research data in the future, supporting positive/locally desirable dimensions of resilience.Through realisation of these objectives, our work will benefit local pastoralist communities, through enhanced understanding & provision of data & knowledge exchange to support resilience. For policymakers, donors & NGOs our work will provide clear guidance on the information needs & requirements of pastoral communities, barriers to uptake of research outputs & how these can be overcome; policymakers will also benefit from working with the project team on application of results to specific development policies & agendas pertinent to enhanced pastoral livelihoods in the future. For all beneficiaries, but especially academics, donors & NGOs implementing work on pastoral resilience, they will benefit from the new methods & interdisciplinary approaches trialled & developed during this project. The project will also make important contributions to ongoing debates across the natural & social sciences, arts & humanities.