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9. Towards Imagining the Big Picture and the Finer Details: Exploring Global Applications of a Local and Scientific Knowledge Exchange Methodology

Author : Susan A. Crate

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Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

Local knowledge informs scientific and applied understandings (development, climate change adaptation, etc.) by showing the diversity of ways in which global phenomena are affecting local cultures and ecosystems. However, is there similar value for affected communities? Can global understandings inform local knowledge and, furthermore, can the two knowledge systems inform each other? If so, what could be a model of such knowledge exchange and is there a performative context to bring about such informing? This chapter argues yes, based on a series of successful knowledge exchanges conducted in northeastern Siberia in 2010. The chapter takes this process to the next step, to explore how a model for such knowledge exchanges could potentially be adapted to several different world contexts. The chapter begins with an overview of why such exchanges are important in our twenty-first century world and how the method was developed in the Siberian case. It then discusses relevant results, before moving to explore the ways in which the model could inform other world contexts, using cases from Labrador, Canada and Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

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Footnotes
1
‘Place-based peoples’ refers to people who are: (1) directly dependent on their immediate environment for their daily sustenance; and (2) have inhabited an area for a long enough time to have the necessary situated local knowledge to be successful in that direct and daily dependence.
 
2
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
 
3
International Polar Year.
 
4
Compare also Christoph Kueffer’s contribution Chap. 2, in this volume.
 
5
Exchange of Local Observations and Knowledge in the Arctic.
 
6
Compare Claudia Grill’s Chap. 6, in this volume regarding cyclical notions of environmental change.
 
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Metadata
Title
Towards Imagining the Big Picture and the Finer Details: Exploring Global Applications of a Local and Scientific Knowledge Exchange Methodology
Author
Susan A. Crate
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Grounding Global Climate Change

Print ISBN: 978-94-017-9321-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-017-9322-3

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3_9