Network of Indigenous Knowledge

该奖项资助了一个讲习班，将育空和亚马逊大流域的土著文化代表与环境科学家聚集在一起，就突出河流的长期可持续性以及沿线居民的健康和福祉的主题分享信息并制定研究计划。尽管亚马逊河距离北极很远，但它们是一个很好的论据，表明需要将全球各地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，但它正在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除俄罗斯北极以外的所有亚马逊地区都有更大的信号，但这些过程正在向北极圈蔓延。该协会和他的合作者将这次研讨会视为一个起点，一个由土著人民和科学家组成的更大的网络，他们共同努力增进我们对这些淡水系统的了解，并确保它们的长期可持续性和可持续利用。研究小组的愿景是，未来的研讨会将包括莱纳河、尼罗河、恒河、扬子江、吉隆德河、密西西比河和麦肯齐河，最终将包括波利尼西亚的海洋民族。为期五天的讲习班将于2013年秋季在秘鲁廷皮亚举行，具体目标是：收集和比较讲习班参与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；争取与会者就解决社区需求可能需要的围绕水资源问题的具体能力建设和行动达成共识；介绍以社区为基础的水监测方法并对与会者进行培训；介绍和培训与会者使用数字媒体和讲故事的方法；确定在讲习班参与者之间发展和维持社区和信息交流的方法，包括可能建立一个以土著社区和河流为中心的全球网络。讲习班期间探讨的其他主题将是关于河流可能因当代和传统的景观和环境变化而发生变化的土著叙述，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系统的动态影响。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其他视角。以及，科学和传统生态知识(TEK)如何共同造福土著社区。研讨会将包括土著社区和科学界的大力参与，从而将增加高度代表不足的群体对科学的参与。

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.