Best Practices in Collaborative Research with Northern Communities: A Synopsis from Early Career Researchers
Combining scientific and traditional knowledge is crucial to understand environmental systems across circum-Arctic regions, where climate change is most striking. However, building collaborative partnerships between visiting scientists and local, indigenous traditional knowledge holders in Northern...
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2018
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47898/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47898/1/EUCOP2018_Abstract_Community-based_Research.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816115/document https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.bbda0e58-a316-43b5-85dd-10c099b7d399 https://hdl.handle.net/ |
Summary: | Combining scientific and traditional knowledge is crucial to understand environmental systems across circum-Arctic regions, where climate change is most striking. However, building collaborative partnerships between visiting scientists and local, indigenous traditional knowledge holders in Northern communities presents challenges. The workshop “Community-based Research: Do`s and Don`ts of Arctic Research” was organized as an IASC cross-cutting initiative at ICOP2016 in Potsdam, Germany, to facilitate dialogue between Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Northern residents. This workshop resulted in a diverse list of considerations and sustainable practices to improve traditional and scientific knowledge exchange, and collaborative Northern research. An extensive list of positive (Do`s) and few negative recommendations (Don`ts) was generated together with ECRs and Arctic representatives. Many good ideas on research design, active communication and community involvement developed from fruitful discussions. This study provides an example of bottom-up strategy development in order to enhance knowledge transfer between scientists and northern indigenous communities. |
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