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Integrating Indigenous Traditional, Local and Scientific Knowledge for Improved Management, Policy and Decision-Making in Reindeer Husbandry in the Russian ArcticAs scientists and policy-makers from both indigenous and non-indigenous communities begin to build closer partnerships to address common sustainability issues such as the health impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities, it becomes increasingly important to create shared information management systems which integrate all relevant factors for optimal information sharing and decision-making. This paper describes a new GIs-based system being designed to bring local and indigenous traditional knowledge together with scientific data and information, remote sensing, and information technologies to address health-related environment, weather, climate, pollution and land use change issues for improved decision/policy-making for reindeer husbandry. The system is building an easily-accessible archive of relevant current and historical, traditional, local and remotely-sensed and other data and observations for shared analysis, measuring, and monitoring parameters of interest. Protection of indigenous culturally sensitive information will be respected through appropriate data protocols. A mechanism which enables easy information sharing among all participants, which is real time and geo-referenced and which allows interconnectivity with remote sites is also being designed into the system for maximum communication among partners. A preliminary version of our system will be described for a Russian reindeer test site, which will include a combination of indigenous knowledge about local conditions and issues, remote sensing and ground-based data on such parameters as the vegetation state and distribution, snow cover, temperature, ice condition, and infrastructure.
Document ID
20040079736
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Maynard, Nancy G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Yurchak, Boris
(NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies New York, NY, United States)
Turi, Johan Mathis
(Association of World Reindeer Herders)
Mathiesen, Svein D.
(Norwegian School of Veterinary Science)
Aissi-Wespi, Rita L.
(Decision Systems Technologies, Inc. Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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