Increasing the Use of Community-based Mapping in the Russian Arctic and Mountainous Regions

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）.该项目是一个实验性应用科学项目，PI大卫戈登，太平洋环境，与俄罗斯西伯利亚高海拔和高纬度土著社区合作，以1）促进他们对绘制其生态和文化环境图的兴趣;（2）向这些群体提供科学专门知识和方法;（3）协助他们使俄罗斯决策者和管理人员参与土著家园土地和资源的决策过程;（4）在西伯利亚土著人民之间转让知识和方法;（5）评估太平洋环境组织（PE）让西伯利亚土著群体参与俄罗斯民间治理的计划的有效性。太平洋环境组织（PE）是自苏联解体以来在俄罗斯运作的800- 1，000多个环境非政府组织（NGO）之一（新区域环境中心统计）。PE的俄罗斯项目自20世纪90年代初以来一直在运作，其重点是“加强当地社区非政府组织和当地社区保护自然世界的能力。“体育为西伯利亚主要由土著领导的组织和社区提供科学知识、培训、业务支持和组织，以促进他们对俄罗斯民间社会的了解、参与和支持。PE的理念是加强俄罗斯在民间社会中的声音，以保护环境。PE与马加丹环境中心，俄罗斯北方土著人民协会（RAIPON），席尔瓦森林基金会不列颠哥伦比亚省，堪察加Lach民族生态信息中心，阿尔泰可持续发展基金会，和其他人将南西伯利亚社区与北方西伯利亚社区聚集在一起，分享他们的经验教训，数据和方法。该项目的实验性不在于共享的制图和地理信息系统技术，而在于体育对社区表达的需求的回应;它不仅支持环境制图，而且支持文化制图-承认自然世界有需要尊重的形而上学参照物;在西伯利亚南部和北方人民之间转让方法、技术和知识;以及对研究的评价及其在资源政策辩论中的应用。阿尔泰社区和后来的北方社区与PE接触，并要求他们利用地理信息系统，地理和人类学科学来帮助他们解决日益增长的问题，并需要他们与景观的关系不断变化，因为不断发展和快速的环境变化。该项目是高风险/高回报的，研究小组正在探索新的领域，绘制文化和超自然空间图，包括高度濒危语言的地名数据;他们正在促进土著人民在民间社会的声音;也许最重要的是，作为俄罗斯600多个环境非政府组织之一，他们希望条件反射地自我检查自己的角色和效率。 该项目将地理信息系统、民族志、人类学、人文地理学、政治学、传统知识和应用研究相结合，以增加对西伯利亚文化和生态环境的了解，以及这种了解如何促进土著人在政策和管理辩论中的发言权。它将由土著社区向南向北为土著社区转让知识，这将增加代表性不足的群体对科学的参与，并使少数民族能够利用科学来满足他们的需求。此外，这项研究和拟议的讲习班将培训当地人民应用科学，以满足已确定的社区需要，向政府当局确认、绘制和登记其文化遗址，使他们在有关土著土地和资源开发的更广泛讨论中有发言权。通过这一项目获得的知识将适用于社区测绘和了解他们因气候变化而正在经历的环境和文化变化。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project is an experimental applied science project, PI David Gordon, Pacific Environment, to collaborate with high altitude and high latitude indigenous communities in Siberia, Russia to 1) facilitate their interest in mapping their ecological and cultural environments; 2) to provide scientific expertise and methodology to these groups; 3) to assist them in engaging Russian policy makers and managers in the decision making process over lands and resources on indigenous homelands; 4) to transfer knowledge and methods between Siberian indigenous peoples; and 5) to evaluate the effectiveness of Pacific Environment's program to engage Siberian indigenous groups in civil governance in Russia.Pacific Environment (PE) is one of over 800-1,000 Environmental Non-GovernmentalOrganizations (NGOs) operating in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union (NewRegional Environmental Center statistics). PE's Russia Program has been in operation since the early 1990's and its focus is on "strengthening the capacity of on-the-ground community-based NGOs and local communities to protect the natural world." PE provides scientific expertise, training, operational support, and organization to primarily indigenous led organizations and communities in Siberia in order to facilitate their knowledge, participation in, and support for civil society in Russia. PE's philosophy is to strengthen Russian voices in civil society in order to protect the environment.PE has partnered in this project with the Magadan Center for the Environment, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), Silva Forest Foundation British Columbia, Lach Ethno-ecological Information Center Kamchatka, Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai, and others to bring the Southern Siberian communities together with the Northern Siberian communities to share their lessons, data, and methods. This project is experimental not so much in the mapping and GIS technology shared but in PE's response to an expressed need from the community; its support of not only environmental mapping but cultural mapping - the recognition that the natural world has metaphysical referents that need to be respected; the transfer of methods, techniques, and knowledge between southern and northern Siberian peoples; and the evaluation of the research and its application to the policy debates over resources. The Altai communities and later the Northern communities, approached PE and asked that they assist them with GIS, geographic, and anthropological science to help them address a growing concern and need they have over their changing relationships to their landscape because of increasing development and rapid environmental change.This project is high risk/high return, the research team is exploring new territory with the mapping of cultural and metaphysical space, including place name data for highly endangered languages; they are facilitating the voices of indigenous peoples in civil society; and perhaps most importantly they want to reflexively self-examine their role and efficacy, as one of the 600 plus environmental NGOs in Russia jockeying for space. The project combines GIS, ethnography, anthropology, human geography, political science, traditional knowledge, and applied research to increase understanding of the cultural and ecological environments in Siberia and how this understanding can facilitate the indigenous voice in policy and managementdebates. It will transfer of knowledge south to north by indigenous communities, for indigenous communities, which increases the participation of underrepresented groups in science and allows for minority peoples to co-opt science to inform their needs. In addition, the research and the proposed workshop will train local people in the application of science to address the identified community need to recognize, map, and register their cultural sites with governmental authorities in order to give them a voice in the larger discussion taking place about indigenous lands and resource development. The knowledge gained through this project will be applicable to communities mapping and understanding the environmental and cultural changes they are undergoing due to climate change.