Himalayan-Arctic Exchange: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Regional Learning in Community-Based Research Methods and Experiences

喜马拉雅-北极交流：基于社区的研究方法和经验的跨文化和跨地区学习

• 批准号: 1027288
• 负责人: Henry Huntington
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Huntington Consulting
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027288&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Himalayan; Arctic; Exchange; Cross; Cultural

This mini-workshop project, PI Henry Huntington, provides the resources for four Himalayan scholars to join their Inuit, Canadian counterparts in Nunavut to observe, gather data, and discuss the community based research projects currently underway in Clyde River, Baffin Island, Nunavut among the Inuit communities of this region. This project is part of the Arctic Social Sciences Program's faciliatation of international research collaborations on high-latitude/high-altitude cross-cultural perspectives on global climate change.The people of the Himalayas are undergoing rapid climate change comparative to the Arctic. For example, high altitude glaciers are melting causing massive flooding and threatening future sources of water., sacred sites are being destroyed, and changes in local flora and fauna are observed. NSF has funded several community based projects among the Inuit of Clyde River, e.g., the Igliniit project- is a collaboration between geomatics engineers and the Inuit to develop an interactive, mobile, Inuktitut (local language) GPS/field computer/weather station that allows Inuit hunters to record environmental information as they hunt and travel; the Silarlirijiit project - is a collabortion between NSF scientists and local elders to better understand regional wether patterns. By bringing together these two communities, Himalayan and Arctic, for a technological, knowledge, and scientific exchange, the mini-workshop has the potential not only to affect the way in which indigenous communties monitor and understand the changes in their regions but it also has the potential to inform our understanding of traditional knowledge systems about the environment, create new models for working with communities in high-altitude regions, and the ability to increase our understanding of the key social structural elements of how environmental change affects social-cultural processes.This project is quite transformational - it is a first ever exchange of scientific/local knowledge between high latitude and high altidute communities and collaborating scientists on climate change. The scientific merits are quite high, the project will give insights into local culture based knowledge systems; will transfer technology between two very diverse regions - technology developed in collaborations with indigenous communities; and this exchange has the potential for scientists to gain critical insights into social structural resilience that exists regardless of local cultural knowledge.

这个小型研讨会项目由 PI Henry Huntington 负责，为四名喜马拉雅学者提供了资源，让他们能够与努纳武特地区的因纽特人和加拿大同行一起观察、收集数据并讨论目前在努纳武特地区巴芬岛克莱德河正在进行的基于社区的研究项目。该地区的因纽特人社区。 该项目是北极社会科学计划的一部分，该计划旨在促进高纬度/高海拔地区跨文化视角下全球气候变化的国际研究合作。与北极相比，喜马拉雅山人民正在经历快速的气候变化。 例如，高海拔冰川融化导致大规模洪水，威胁未来的水源，圣地遭到破坏，当地动植物群发生变化。 NSF 资助了克莱德河因纽特人中的几个基于社区的项目，例如 Igliniit 项目 - 是地理信息工程师和因纽特人之间的合作，旨在开发一个交互式、移动、因纽特语（当地语言）GPS/现场计算机/气象站，该项目允许因纽特猎人在狩猎和旅行时记录环境信息； Silarlirijiit 项目 - 是 NSF 科学家和当地长者之间的合作项目，旨在更好地了解区域天气模式。 通过将喜马拉雅和北极这两个社区聚集在一起进行技术、知识和科学交流，小型研讨会不仅有可能影响土著社区监测和了解其地区变化的方式，而且还有潜力帮助我们理解有关​​环境的传统知识体系，创建与高海拔地区社区合作的新模式，并有能力增进我们对环境变化如何影响社会文化进程的关键社会结构要素的理解。这个项目具有很大的变革性——这是第一个高纬度和高海拔社区之间不断交流科学/当地知识以及气候变化方面的合作科学家。 科学价值相当高，该项目将深入了解基于当地文化的知识体系；将在两个截然不同的地区之间转让技术——与土著社区合作开发的技术；这种交流有可能使科学家获得对社会结构复原力的批判性见解，而这种复原力无论当地文化知识如何，都存在。