An empirically tested overlap between indigenous and scientific knowledge of a changing climate in Bolivian Amazonia

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Authors

  • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
  • Raquel Amaral Garcia
  • Isabel Díaz-Reviriego
  • Mar Cabeza
  • Aili Pyhälä
  • Victoria Reyes-García

Existing climate data for Bolivian Amazonia rely on observations from a few sparse weather stations, interpolated on coarse-resolution grids. At the same time, the region hosts numerous indigenous groups with rich knowledge systems that are hitherto untapped in the quest to understand local climate change. Drawing on an empirical dataset of climate change observations by an Amazonian native society, we assess the potential use of indigenous knowledge for complementing available climate data. We find indigenous observations to be robustly associated with local station data for climatic changes over the last five decades. By contrast, there are discrepancies between gridded climate data and both indigenous observations and local station observations. Indigenous knowledge can be instrumental to enhance our understanding of local climate in data-deficient regions. Indigenous observations offer a tool to ground-truth gridded descriptions of climatic changes, thereby making adaptation strategies more robust at local scales. We contend that the use of indigenous knowledge could help to assist the climate interpolation process and address the prevailing uncertainties in local assessments of climate change.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftRegional Environmental Change
Jahrgang17
Ausgabenummer6
Seiten (von - bis)1673-1685
Anzahl der Seiten13
ISSN1436-3798
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.08.2017
Extern publiziertJa

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