Life on thin ice: Insights from Uummannaq, Greenland for connecting climate science with Arctic communities
International audience What are the links between mainstream climate science and local community knowledge? This study takes the example of Greenland, considered one of the regions most impacted by climate change, and Inuit people, characterized as being highly adaptive to environmental change, to e...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.le3ec4 2023-05-15T15:15:04+02:00 Life on thin ice: Insights from Uummannaq, Greenland for connecting climate science with Arctic communities Baztan, Juan Cordier, Mateo Huctin, Jean-Michel Zhu, Zhiwei Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2017-09-01 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2017.05.002 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01871457 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier hal-01871457 doi:10.1016/j.polar.2017.05.002 10670/1.le3ec4 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01871457 undefined Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 1873-9652 Polar Science Polar Science, Elsevier, 2017, 13, pp.100 - 108. ⟨10.1016/j.polar.2017.05.002⟩ Science and society Knowledge co-production Greenland Uummannaq Inuit Climate change Sea ice Adaptation geo envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2017.05.002 2023-01-22T18:24:31Z International audience What are the links between mainstream climate science and local community knowledge? This study takes the example of Greenland, considered one of the regions most impacted by climate change, and Inuit people, characterized as being highly adaptive to environmental change, to explore this question. The study is based on 10 years of anthropological participatory research in Uummannaq, Northwest Greenland, along with two fieldwork periods in October 2014 and April 2015, and a quantitative bibliometric analysis of the international literature on sea ice – a central subject of concern identified by Uummannaq community members during the fieldwork periods. Community members' perceptions of currently available scientific climate knowledge were also collected during the fieldwork. This was done to determine if community members consider available scientific knowledge salient and if it covers issues they consider relevant. The bibliometric analysis of the sea ice literature provided additional insight into the degree to which scientific knowledge about climate change provides information relevant for the community. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate on the missing connections between community worldviews, cultural values, livelihood needs, interests and climate science. Our results show that more scientific research efforts should consider local-level needs in order to produce local-scale knowledge that is more salient, credible and legitimate for communities experiencing climate change. In Uummannaq, as in many Inuit communities with similar conditions, more research should be done on sea ice thickness in winter and in areas through which local populations travel. This paper supports the growing evidence that whenever possible, climate change research should focus on environmental features that matter to communities, at temporal and spatial scales relevant to them, in order to foster community adaptations to change. We recommend such research be connected to and co-constructed with local ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Greenland inuit Polar Science Polar Science Sea ice Uummannaq Unknown Arctic Greenland Polar Science 13 100 108 |
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International audience What are the links between mainstream climate science and local community knowledge? This study takes the example of Greenland, considered one of the regions most impacted by climate change, and Inuit people, characterized as being highly adaptive to environmental change, to explore this question. The study is based on 10 years of anthropological participatory research in Uummannaq, Northwest Greenland, along with two fieldwork periods in October 2014 and April 2015, and a quantitative bibliometric analysis of the international literature on sea ice – a central subject of concern identified by Uummannaq community members during the fieldwork periods. Community members' perceptions of currently available scientific climate knowledge were also collected during the fieldwork. This was done to determine if community members consider available scientific knowledge salient and if it covers issues they consider relevant. The bibliometric analysis of the sea ice literature provided additional insight into the degree to which scientific knowledge about climate change provides information relevant for the community. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate on the missing connections between community worldviews, cultural values, livelihood needs, interests and climate science. Our results show that more scientific research efforts should consider local-level needs in order to produce local-scale knowledge that is more salient, credible and legitimate for communities experiencing climate change. In Uummannaq, as in many Inuit communities with similar conditions, more research should be done on sea ice thickness in winter and in areas through which local populations travel. This paper supports the growing evidence that whenever possible, climate change research should focus on environmental features that matter to communities, at temporal and spatial scales relevant to them, in order to foster community adaptations to change. We recommend such research be connected to and co-constructed with local ... |
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Life on thin ice: Insights from Uummannaq, Greenland for connecting climate science with Arctic communities |
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