Assessing the Impacts of Local Knowledge and Technology on Climate Change Vulnerability in Remote Communities

Bone, Christopher; Alessa, Lilian; Altaweel, Mark; Kliskey, Andrew; Lammers, R. B.

doi:10.3390/ijerph8030733

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“…The concept of TIED put forth by Alessa et al (2010) describes the process by which a community may become more vulnerable to climate change impacts as new technologies that satisfy basic needs, water resources in their example, are introduced (Alessa et al 2010, Bone et al 2011. The vulnerability lies in the fact that when basic needs are met by technology, instead of interactions with the environment, there is a loss of environmental awareness and thereby less awareness of environmental changes.…”

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“…The vulnerability lies in the fact that when basic needs are met by technology, instead of interactions with the environment, there is a loss of environmental awareness and thereby less awareness of environmental changes. However, as Bone et al (2011) point out, this vulnerability may be mitigated through the transmission of IK.…”

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“…Perceptions influence how a community frames climate change, how its members evaluate the risks they face because of climate change impacts, and what adaptation choices its members ultimately make (Bone et al 2011). It is important to document environmental changes observed by members of each generation to compile the most complete temporal and spatial record of environmental observations and to gain an understanding of the context, concepts, and vocabulary used by different generations Ecology and Society 21(3): 28 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss3/art28/ to talk about climate and its changes.…”

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Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska

Herman‐Mercer¹,

Matkin²,

Laituri³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Indigenous Arctic and Subarctic communities currently are facing a myriad of social and environmental changes. In response to these changes, studies concerning indigenous knowledge (IK) and climate change vulnerability, resiliency, and adaptation have increased dramatically in recent years. Risks to lives and livelihoods are often the focus of adaptation research; however, the cultural dimensions of climate change are equally important because cultural dimensions inform perceptions of risk. Furthermore, many Arctic and Subarctic IK climate change studies document observations of change and knowledge of the elders and older generations in a community, but few include the perspectives of the younger population. These observations by elders and older generations form a historical baseline record of weather and climate observations in these regions. However, many indigenous Arctic and Subarctic communities are composed of primarily younger residents. We focused on the differences in the cultural dimensions of climate change found between young adults and elders. We outlined the findings from interviews conducted in four indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska. The findings revealed that (1) intergenerational observations of change were common among interview participants in all four communities, (2) older generations observed more overall change than younger generations interviewed by us, and (3) how change was perceived varied between generations. We defined "observations" as the specific examples of environmental and weather change that were described, whereas "perceptions" referred to the manner in which these observations of change were understood and contextualized by the interview participants. Understanding the differences in generational observations and perceptions of change are key issues in the development of climate change adaptation strategies.

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Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska

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Laituri³

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“…As argued above, land-use and environmental dynamics can be key drivers of sustainable food production and nutrition security (42,69,(110)(111)(112)(113). A growing scientific literature uses mathematical and computational models to gain insight into processes of land-use change, ecosystem sustainability, and climate (66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71)(72)(73)(111)(112)(113).…”

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“…Linkage to sophisticated social science and agriculture models to capture coevolution of human and biological systems is likely to produce new and richer insights at the environmental level (42,66,(112)(113)(114), and would benefit policy-makers (114). Computational simulations are widely used in environmental modeling, and ABM has recently been applied to natural resource and land-use management (66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71)(72)(73) and to individual land and economic decision making by agriculturalist households in the developing world (69,113). Such models could form the basis for a promising integration with social science and economic models of food choice, social influence, and food availability (above), as well as integration with models of health and disease spread whose dynamics might be shaped by environmental factors.…”

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A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition security

Hammond

Dubé

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We argue that food and nutrition security is driven by complex underlying systems and that both research and policy in this area would benefit from a systems approach. We present a framework for such an approach, examine key underlying systems, and identify transdisciplinary modeling tools that may prove especially useful.complexity | agri-food | health | disease | environment N utrition is a fundamental human need, affecting health and well-being throughout the lifespan in myriad ways. A central concept in the study of human nutrition is food and nutrition security, which is typically defined as "when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (1). The absence of food and nutrition security can have significant consequences for individuals and for society, including malnutrition, obesity, disease, and poverty.Despite rapid growth in agricultural production over the past four decades, significant malnutrition persists. Average per-capita food consumption was below the recommended 2,200 kcal/d in 33 countries in 2003. Globally, more than 850 million people lack adequate access to food on a regular basis, with a third of these in East and Southeast Asia, another third in South Asia, and a quarter in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the most food-insecure regions, the number of hungry people has gone up by 20% since 1990; more than a third of the population is undernourished in such countries as Kenya and Tanzania. There are 126 million underweight children in the world and over 2 billion people who suffer from micronutrient deficiency (2-4).At the same time, there has been an alarming rise in obesity in the developed world (5, 6) and, increasingly, in the developing world as well (7-9). The obesity rate in the United States doubled between 1970 and 2000, to almost 30% (5); worldwide, nearly 1.5 billion people are now overweight or obese (9). Like malnutrition, obesity has significant implications for public health (10, 11) and health care costs (12). Obesity can coexist in the same populations as malnutrition, and it may be linked to the same forces that drive reductions in malnutrition (13, 14). Complexity of Food and Nutrition SecurityBoth phenomena, malnutrition and obesity, are manifestations of widespread food and nutrition insecurity. The determinants of this insecurity are complex. A primary driver of food security or insecurity is the agricultural food system. The agrifood system spans a series of interrelated processes, including production of raw food materials through farming and raising of livestock, processing and packaging for consumption, distribution, and utilization by consumers (15). These processes are affected by a range of influences, including diffusion of agricultural technology (16, 17), functioning of capital markets, infrastructure at both local and regional/global levels, organization of firms and supply chains, sociopolitical factors ...

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Global Climate Change Perception, Local Risk Awareness, and Community Disaster Risk Reduction: A Case Study of Cartago City, Costa Rica

Hori¹,

Shaw²

2012

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Cartago City, Costa Rica has observed an increase in the damages and losses due to floods and landslides in recent decades. The city faces a challenge to enhance disaster risk management (DRM) capacity in order to reduce increasing disaster risk. This research identifies factors that enhance local DRM capacity in the context of increasing climate-related events, focusing on the ability of communities that can complement local government's DRM initiative. The study involved 240 household surveys in four high flood risk communities in Cartago and found positive outcomes stemming from communities' perception of global climate change and awareness of local climaterelated disaster risk. Furthermore, the study identified two factors that increase awareness. Despite the communities' higher local climate-related disaster risk awareness, however, the study found that communities take few disaster risk reduction (DRR) actions. Hence, the study identified three factors for promoting greater community DRR action.KEY WORDS: global climate change perception, flood risk awareness, community disaster risk awareness, Costa Rica

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Assessing the Impacts of Local Knowledge and Technology on Climate Change Vulnerability in Remote Communities

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska

Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska

A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition security

Global Climate Change Perception, Local Risk Awareness, and Community Disaster Risk Reduction: A Case Study of Cartago City, Costa Rica

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