Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring
Rapid climate-driven environmental change continues to threaten front-line communities that rely on Arctic landscapes to sustain their way of life. Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) can increase our knowledge of environmental change and understanding of human-environment interactions occurring across...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:f7988f45189c4be0851f89febd1f5aa5 2023-09-05T13:16:58+02:00 Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring Louise Mercer Dustin Whalen Michael Lim Kendyce Cockney Shaun Cormier Charlotte Irish Paul J Mann 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/accfb0 https://doaj.org/article/f7988f45189c4be0851f89febd1f5aa5 EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/accfb0 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/accfb0 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/f7988f45189c4be0851f89febd1f5aa5 Environmental Research Letters, Vol 18, Iss 6, p 064003 (2023) community-based monitoring Arctic environmental monitoring co-development Inuit Nunangat Indigenous Knowledge Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/accfb0 2023-08-13T00:36:58Z Rapid climate-driven environmental change continues to threaten front-line communities that rely on Arctic landscapes to sustain their way of life. Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) can increase our knowledge of environmental change and understanding of human-environment interactions occurring across the Arctic. However, the depth of CBM research outcomes have been limited by an imbalance in contributions from external researchers and community members. A detailed literature analysis revealed that the number of studies documenting CBM approaches in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homeland in Canada) have increased over the last decade. We identify that bottom-up guiding protocols including the National Inuit Strategy on Research, has increased community engagement in Arctic research processes and equitable outcomes. However, these increases have been concentrated on wildlife-based research where consistent funding streams and pre-existing alignment with community priorities exist. To explore the potential for guiding principles to be more successfully incorporated into impactful CBM, we present a co-developed environmental CBM case study aiming to document and aid understanding of climate-driven landscape change near Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada since 2018. A foundation of early dialogue and collaborative partnerships between community members and external researchers formed the basis of a community-based climate monitoring program driven by community research priorities. A succession of funded CBM projects at Tuktoyaktuk demonstrated that longer term and resilient climate monitoring can bring together Scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems. Progressing beyond an emphasis on data collection is vital to sustain monitoring efforts, capacity sharing and co-dissemination processes to ensure research is communicated back in a way that is understandable, relevant, and usable to address community priorities. The need for successful CBM is often at odds with current research funding structures, which ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic inuit Inuvialuit Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Canada Tuktoyaktuk ENVELOPE(-133.006,-133.006,69.425,69.425) Environmental Research Letters 18 6 064003 |
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Rapid climate-driven environmental change continues to threaten front-line communities that rely on Arctic landscapes to sustain their way of life. Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) can increase our knowledge of environmental change and understanding of human-environment interactions occurring across the Arctic. However, the depth of CBM research outcomes have been limited by an imbalance in contributions from external researchers and community members. A detailed literature analysis revealed that the number of studies documenting CBM approaches in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homeland in Canada) have increased over the last decade. We identify that bottom-up guiding protocols including the National Inuit Strategy on Research, has increased community engagement in Arctic research processes and equitable outcomes. However, these increases have been concentrated on wildlife-based research where consistent funding streams and pre-existing alignment with community priorities exist. To explore the potential for guiding principles to be more successfully incorporated into impactful CBM, we present a co-developed environmental CBM case study aiming to document and aid understanding of climate-driven landscape change near Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada since 2018. A foundation of early dialogue and collaborative partnerships between community members and external researchers formed the basis of a community-based climate monitoring program driven by community research priorities. A succession of funded CBM projects at Tuktoyaktuk demonstrated that longer term and resilient climate monitoring can bring together Scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems. Progressing beyond an emphasis on data collection is vital to sustain monitoring efforts, capacity sharing and co-dissemination processes to ensure research is communicated back in a way that is understandable, relevant, and usable to address community priorities. The need for successful CBM is often at odds with current research funding structures, which ... |
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Louise Mercer Dustin Whalen Michael Lim Kendyce Cockney Shaun Cormier Charlotte Irish Paul J Mann |
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Louise Mercer Dustin Whalen Michael Lim Kendyce Cockney Shaun Cormier Charlotte Irish Paul J Mann |
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Louise Mercer |
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Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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Towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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towards more inclusive and solution orientated community-based environmental monitoring |
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