Resilient Pastoralism:Towards Sustainable Futures in Rangelands

该项目的重点是通过全球牧民网络，参考肯尼亚和蒙古的案例研究国家以及全球南方的其他国家，在牧民社区建立复原力的挑战。通过整合新的遥感数据集，创新的方法和方法来理解文化层面，恢复力的意义和实践，评估牧民和政策社区的研究吸收和数据需求的障碍，我们将为牧区恢复力的真实的转变奠定基础。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。为了实现我们项目的目标，我们汇集了一个跨学科的团队，该团队结合了遥感技术的专业知识;牧场管理;畜牧业的社会经济学和治理;风险和危害评估;牧场中的人与环境关系;畜牧业的文化地理学和人类学。这项工作更广泛的背景是畜牧业作为全世界约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（UNEA）关于可持续畜牧业的决议（2016）所强调的那样，加强对畜牧业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年和联合国2030年发展目标的关键（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明显的挑战，阻碍了当地发展具有文化意义和有效的复原力以及为此提供的政策支持。人们也不了解为什么会出现这种情况，换句话说，利益攸关方想要的东西没有得到满足，以及如何解决这个问题。因此，我们的目标是：i）从真正的跨学科和地方/土著视角提供对牧区复原力的新理解; ii）获得对不同国家和牧区系统的牧区复原力的比较见解; ㈢审查和测试提高数据集和产出的相关性和吸收的方法，包括通过审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，我们的工作将通过提高对数据和知识交换的理解和提供，支持恢复力，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，我们的工作将为牧区社区的信息需求和要求，研究成果的吸收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，将结果应用于与未来改善牧区生计相关的具体发展政策和议程。对于所有受益者，特别是学术界，捐助者和非政府组织实施关于牧区复原力的工作，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。该项目还将为自然和社会科学，艺术和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.