Counting what counts: using local knowledge to improve Arctic resource management

Danielsen, Finn; Topp-Jørgensen, Elmer; Levermann, Nette; Løvstrøm, Piitaaraq; Schiøtz, Martin; Enghoff, Martin; Jakobsen, Pâviârak

doi:10.1080/1088937x.2014.890960

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“…Limited access and the high cost of infrastructure in remote, northern regions can present challenges for scientists seeking year-round data (Danielsen et al, 2014b). Local residents, especially in Indigenous communities, often possess intimate knowledge about the environment (Ferguson et al, 1998;Gearheard et al, 2011), and have an interest in the sustainability of both biological resources and abiotic features such as sea ice (Oskal et al, 2009).…”

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The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field

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ABSTRACT. Community-based monitoring (CBM) in the Arctic is gaining increasing support from a wide range of interested parties, including community members, scientists, government agencies, and funders. Through CBM initiatives, Arctic residents conduct or are involved in ongoing observing and monitoring activities. Arctic Indigenous peoples have been observing the environment for millennia, and CBM often incorporates traditional knowledge, which may be used independently from or in partnership with conventional scientific monitoring methods. Drawing on insights from the first Arctic Observing Summit, we provide an overview of the state of CBM in the Arctic. The CBM approach to monitoring is centered on community needs and interests. It offers fine-grained, local-scale data that are readily accessible to community and municipal decision makers. In spite of these advantages, CBM initiatives remain little documented and are often unconnected to wider networks, with the result that many practitioners lack a clear sense of the field and how best to support its growth and development. CBM initiatives are implemented within legal and governance frameworks that vary significantly both within and among different national contexts. Further documentation of differences and similarities among Arctic communities in relation to observing needs, interests, and legal and institutional capacities will help assess how CBM can contribute to Arctic observing networks. While CBM holds significant potential to meet observing needs of communities, more investment and experimentation are needed to determine how observations and data generated through CBM approaches might effectively inform decision making beyond the community level.Key words: community-based monitoring; traditional knowledge; observing networks; environmental change; sustainability; knowledge management; natural resource management RÉSUMÉ. Dans l'Arctique, la surveillance communautaire (SC) reçoit un appui de plus en plus grand de la part de nombreuses parties intéressées, dont les membres de la communauté, les scientifiques, les organismes gouvernementaux et les bailleurs de fonds. Dans le cadre des initiatives de SC, des habitants de l'Arctique effectuent des tâches permanentes d'observation et de surveillance ou participent à de telles tâches. Les peuples indigènes de l'Arctique observent l'environnement depuis des millénaires. Souvent, la SC fait appel aux connaissances traditionnelles, connaissances qui peuvent être employées seules ou conjointement avec les méthodes classiques de surveillance scientifique. Nous nous sommes appuyés sur les connaissances dérivées du premier sommet d'observation de l'Arctique pour donner un aperçu de l'état de la SC dans l'Arctique. La méthode de SC est centrée sur les besoins et les intérêts de la communauté. Elle permet d'obtenir des données à grain fin à l'échelle locale, données qui sont facilement accessibles par la communauté et les preneurs de décisions municipaux. Malgré ces avantages, il existe peu de documentation au sujet...

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The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field

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“…D, Disko Bugt; N.a., not applicable; U, Uummannaq Fjord. *For latin names and details see Danielsen et al (2014) …”

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“…MA-PEEX will promote international collaboration, sustainable marine meteorological, sea ice, and oceanographic observations, advanced data management, and multidisciplinary research on the marine Arctic and its interaction with the (Danielsen et al 2014). Legend: , increased abundance; , declining abundance; ⇔, no major change in the abundance; ‡ , increased abundance reported in some areas, decline in other areas; Few 5 data, there are little or no abundance data available; ✔, correspondence between community members' and scientists' assessments; (✔), probable correspondence between community members' and scientists' assessments but the time, area and/or temporal/spatial scale of the assessments do not match; , no correspondence.…”

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“…The Greenland Government has piloted the development of a simple, field-based system for 15 observing and managing resources developed specifically to enable Greenlandic fishers and hunters to document trends in living resources and to propose management decisions themselves (Danielsen et al 2014; searchable database available at https://eloka-arctic.org/pisuna-net/). The system was designed to build upon existing informal observing methods, and it includes most of the aspects that are believed to make knowledge generation initiatives 'culturally appropriate' (Pulsifer et al 2011).…”

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Towards the Marine Arctic Component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment

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Abstract. The Arctic marine climate system is changing rapidly, seen as warming of the ocean and atmosphere, decline of sea ice cover, increase in river discharge, acidification of the ocean, and changes in marine ecosystems. Socio-economic activities 20 in the coastal and marine Arctic are simultaneously changing. This calls for establishment of a marine Arctic component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (MA-PEEX). There is a need for more in-situ observations on the marine atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean, but increasing the amount of such observations is a pronounced technological and logistical challenge. The SMEAR (Station Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations) concept can be applied in coastal and archipelago stations, but in the Arctic Ocean it will probably be more cost-effective to further develop a strongly distributed marine observation network 25 based on autonomous buoys, moorings, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).These have to be supported by research vessel and aircraft campaigns, as well as various coastal observations, including community-based ones. Major manned drifting stations may occasionally serve comparable to terrestrial SMEAR Flagship stations. To best utilize the observations, atmosphere-ocean reanalyses need to be further developed. To well integrate MA-PEEX with the existing terrestrial/atmospheric PEEX, focus is needed on the river discharge and associated fluxes, coastal 30 processes, as well as atmospheric transports in and out of the marine Arctic. More observations and research are also needed on the specific socio-economic challenges and opportunities in the marine and coastal Arctic, and on their interaction with changes in the climate and environmental system. MA-PEEX will promote international collaboration, sustainable marine Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi

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“…When Alaska Natives are successful in accessing the space provided for raising their voices, they face an additional barrier: perceptions of legitimacy and acceptance within policy and management regimes (Pinkerton 1994;Pinkerton and John 2008;Johannes et al 2000;Berkes and Henley 1997;Danielsen et al 2014;Hind 2014;Howitt 2001). Part of gaining legitimacy and acceptance is in the presentation of knowledge.…”

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Managed out of existence: over-regulation of Indigenous subsistence fishing of the Yukon River

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Counting what counts: using local knowledge to improve Arctic resource management

Cited by 67 publications

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The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field

The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field

Towards the Marine Arctic Component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment

Managed out of existence: over-regulation of Indigenous subsistence fishing of the Yukon River

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