Project Profile: Adaptation Traditions and Climate Change
Biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Luke Matthews, RAND Corporation, United States |
| Partners: | Peter Finke, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland Jamshid Tehrani, Durham University, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Ryan Brown, RAND Corporation, United States Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, RAND Corporation, United States Rebecca Tisherman, RAND Corporation, United States Jeromy Grant, HIA, United States Werner Hertzog, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Background Indigenous ecological knowledge is one critical aspect of cultural heritage that may provide a source of resiliency, mitigation, and adaptation to the effects of climate change. Cultural heritages relevant to changes induced by climate change include diverse forms of technical knowledge and social customs for resource use (i.e. use rights or ownership). Another fundamental characteristic for cultural heritage centers on the extent to which a specific cultural heritage is transmitted in a stable fashion across generations (vertical transmission) versus shared quickly amongst a network of contacts (horizontal transmission). Vertical transmission has the advantage of preserving hard-to-discover technical information and stabilizing resource use-rights to avoid conflict, while horizontal transmission enables the diffusion of technical innovations and new social arrangements. Proposed ResearchThe proposed transdisciplinary research will apply cultural transmission models to study the vertical and horizontal transmission dynamics of cultural heritage sat four comparative study sites :Hoonah AK, Zhetysu Kazakhstan, Chiapas Mexico, and Khovd Mongolia. We will marry these socio-cultural data to ecological data on the changes in resource distributions anticipated due to climate change, and then feed back this information to study site stakeholders and partners so they can consider whether they need to alter their traditional levels of vertical versus horizontal transmission for cultural heritage to account for changes brought on by a changing climate. Community Engagement Outputs:We will work with communities in all stages of the work, including providing back to local communities information about their cultural heritages may need to shift in response to climate change. Scientific Outputs:This study will publish peer-reviewed journal publications that will be among the first to apply the science of evolutionary models for cultural transmission to current adaptations via cultural heritage to the effects of climate change. |
| Call Objective: | This Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes: 1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage; 2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; 3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage. |
Where?
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When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 26 April 2023 |
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