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| Sheil, Douglas; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR);Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC);School of Environmental Science and Management Southern Cross University ; douglassheil@itfc.org; Padmanaba, Michael; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); M.Padmanaba@cgiar.org; Sadjudin, Ermayanti; Conservation International; ermayanti@conservation.org. |
| People everywhere experience changes and events that impact their lives. Knowing how they perceive, react, and adapt to climatic changes and events is helpful in developing strategies to support adaptation to climate change. Mamberamo in Papua, Indonesia, is a sparsely populated watershed of 7.8 million hectares possessing rich tropical forests. Our study compares scientific and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on climate, and analyzes how local people in Mamberamo perceive and react to climatic variations. We compared meteorological data for the region with local views gathered through focus group discussions and interviews in six villages. We explored the local significance of seasonality, climate variability, and climate change. Mamberamo is... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive strategy; Coping mechanism; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Gender; Seasonality; Traditional ecological knowledge. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Mobility is a millenary human strategy to deal with environmental change. An outstanding example of mobility is transhumance, an ancient pastoralist practice consisting of the seasonal migration of livestock between ecological regions following peaks in pasture productivity. The maintenance of transhumance depends partly on the preservation of related traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). We (a) identified and characterized social groups that hold transhumance-related TEK, (b) analyzed trends in transhumance-related TEK across generations and social groups, (c) examined the factors that influence variation in levels of TEK, and (d) analyzed elements of transhumance-related TEK as examples of adaptive strategies to cope with global change. We used... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive strategy; Drove road; Environmental change; Mobility; Pastoralism; Resilience. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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