Ecological Calendars of the Pamir Mountains: Illustrating the Importance of Context‐Specificity for Food Security

Autor: A. L. Ullmann, I. Haag, U. Bulbulshoev
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Global and Planetary Change
Epidemiology
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Pollution
Waste Management and Disposal
ddc
Ecological Calendars and Anticipating the Anthropogenic Climate Crisis
ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
Air/sea constituent fluxes
Volcanic effects
BIOGEOSCIENCES
Climate dynamics
Modeling
COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS
Numerical solutions
CRYOSPHERE
Avalanches
Mass balance
GEODESY AND GRAVITY
Ocean monitoring with geodetic techniques
Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions
Global change from geodesy
GLOBAL CHANGE
Regional climate change
Abrupt/rapid climate change
Climate variability
Earth system modeling
Impacts of global change
Land/atmosphere interactions
Oceans
Sea level change
Solid Earth
Water cycles
HYDROLOGY
Climate impacts
Hydrological cycles and budgets
INFORMATICS
MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
Gravity and isostasy
ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
Climate change and variability
Climatology
General circulation
Ocean/atmosphere interactions
Regional modeling
Theoretical modeling
OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
Climate and interannual variability
Numerical modeling
NATURAL HAZARDS
Sustainable development
Community management
Atmospheric
Geological
Oceanic
Physical modeling
Climate impact
Risk
Disaster risk analysis and assessment
OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL
Air/sea interactions
Decadal ocean variability
Ocean influence of Earth rotation
Sea level: variations and mean
Surface waves and tides
Tsunamis and storm surges
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY
POLICY SCIENCES
Benefit-cost analysis
RADIO SCIENCE
Radio oceanography
SEISMOLOGY
Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology
Volcano seismology
VOLCANOLOGY
Volcano/climate interactions
Atmospheric effects
Volcano monitoring
Effusive volcanism
Mud volcanism
Explosive volcanism
Volcanic hazards and risks
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
Asia
Research Article
transdisciplinary research
Indigenous knowledge
praxis
climate adaptation
human ecology
iconographic communication [Rhythms of the Earth]
Water Science and Technology
Zdroj: GeoHealth. 6
ISSN: 2471-1403
DOI: 10.1029/2022gh000610
Popis: Communities in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their geographic location and subsistence-based livelihoods. Historically, ecological calendars supported their agropastoral lifestyles which provided anticipatory capacity to seasonal changes. Due to decades of Soviet colonization and socioecological transformations, knowledge of these ecological calendars fell into disuse. In 2016, Savnob and Roshorv, two villages in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan, began the revitalization of these calendars using a participatory action research process through knowledge co-generation. We undertook a comparative analysis to investigate the importance of context-specificity to ensure food security and reduce their vulnerability to climate change. A preliminary analysis of the temperature regime and local language terms, relating to the positioning and quality of land, framed our methods-of-analysis. We compared the villagers' ecological calendars by focusing on indicator species, potentially threatening weather events, land-use, livelihood activities, and the role of the vernal equinox. Despite their close geographic proximity, context-specificity determined by distinct microecologies influences the timing and practice of these communities' livelihood activities. These villages have different dependencies on biotic and abiotic events, crops, and land-use; all of which affect food security and survival. These differences contributed to mutual support between the two villages, increased the availability of food, and thereby, lowered their vulnerability to climate change. As Savnob's and Roshorv's ecological calendars are updated with changing climate, they can once again enhance their anticipatory capacity while reducing their vulnerability.
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