Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean

IF 4.9 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103846
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Climate change poses severe threats to coastal social-ecological systems (SES) worldwide. Recent calls recognize the importance of including Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in research on climate change impacts. Yet studies that have attempted to weave ILK and scientific knowledge have seldom considered the gendered nature of climate change impacts. Building on the literature on gender and climate change and knowledge pluralism, this study contributes to addressing this research gap by exploring local knowledge on climate change impacts and its relation to scientific knowledge through a gendered approach and focusing on the Western Indian Ocean region, and more specifically on Kenya. We adopted a mixed methodology combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. We found evidence of pronounced climate change impacts on coastal SES both in the scientific literature and in local reports. Our findings highlight that there is an extensive overlap between information derived from scientific and local knowledge systems. Importantly, our study revealed reports of change that were only provided by SSF communities, namely changes in coastal dynamics, a decrease in rainfall, and a decrease in the abundance of green algae. Although we found gendered variations in changes reported by SSF communities, gendered differences of climate change impacts on SSF were not detected in the reviewed literature. Overall, our results suggest that knowledge cross-fertilization generates a holistic, relational, and place-based view of climate change impacts, which may support sound and gender-inclusive adaptive policies. We conclude by suggesting key policy recommendations for climate adaptation and risk management

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在西印度洋肯尼亚沿海地区编织有关气候变化影响的科学知识和当地知识
气候变化对全球沿海社会生态系统(SES)构成严重威胁。最近,人们认识到将土著和地方知识(ILK)纳入气候变化影响研究的重要性。然而,试图将土著和地方知识与科学知识相结合的研究却很少考虑气候变化影响的性别性质。本研究以性别、气候变化和知识多元化方面的文献为基础,以西印度洋地区,特别是肯尼亚为重点,通过性别化方法探讨气候变化影响方面的地方知识及其与科学知识的关系,从而弥补这一研究空白。我们采用了定性和定量相结合的混合方法。我们在科学文献和当地报告中都发现了气候变化对沿海地区社会经济地位产生明显影响的证据。我们的研究结果表明,来自科学体系和当地知识体系的信息存在广泛的重叠。重要的是,我们的研究揭示了仅由 SSF 社区提供的变化报告,即沿海动态变化、降雨量减少和绿藻数量减少。虽然我们在 SSF 群落报告的变化中发现了性别差异,但在所查阅的文献中并未发现气候变化对 SSF 影响的性别差异。总之,我们的研究结果表明,知识的相互促进产生了对气候变化影响的整体性、关联性和基于地方的观点,这可能有助于制定合理的、性别包容的适应性政策。最后,我们就气候适应和风险管理提出了主要政策建议
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Environmental Science & Policy
Environmental Science & Policy 环境科学-环境科学
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10.90
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332
审稿时长
68 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. However, the subject coverage will not be restricted to these issues and the introduction of new dimensions will be encouraged.
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