Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs

ECCAP

Call

  • Mountains

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Karim-Aly Kassam, Cornell University, United States

Partners

Antonio Trabucco, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Jianchu Xu, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Cyrus Samimi, University of Bayreuth, Germany Kachra Ariff, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Funders

  • CNR-DSSTTA (National Research Council), DFG (German Research Foundation), NSF (National Science Foundation), NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

Project Objective

ECCAP's research will contribute to the anticipatory capacity of Pamiri communities by revitalizing calendars. The project will provide a proof-of-concept to be applied in mountain societies across the globe, culminating in an international conference on ecological calendars for building community resilience to climate change.

Call Objective

This call aims at fostering research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions, considering both new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach.

Region

  • Asia

Country

  • Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan

Duration

Call Date

April 1, 2015

Project Award Date

2015