Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas
The impacts of climate-related disasters can be estimated by climate models. However, climate models are frequently downscaled to specific settings to facilitate Disaster Risk Management (DRM) to better understand local impacts and avoid overlooking uncertainties. Several studies have registered the...
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| author | Rafael Damasceno Pereira Lucas de Paula Brazílio Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel Maurício Duarte dos Santos Letícia Milene Bezerra Silva Lilian Fraciele Souza Ana Carolina Santana Barbosa Mario Ricardo de Oliveira Ronaldo dos Santos Ronaldo dos Santos Danilo Pereira Sato Allan Yu Iwama |
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| description | The impacts of climate-related disasters can be estimated by climate models. However, climate models are frequently downscaled to specific settings to facilitate Disaster Risk Management (DRM) to better understand local impacts and avoid overlooking uncertainties. Several studies have registered the increasing importance of recognizing traditional knowledge, co-design, and collaboration with local communities in developing DRM strategies. The objective of this research was co-design local-scale observations with traditional and local communities to characterize their local context regarding the impacts of climate-related disasters. The citizen science approach coupled with participatory action research was conducted with two traditional communities in the Southeast of the Brazilian coast: Quilombo do Campinho da Independência in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, and the Caiçara (artisanal fishing) community of Ubatumirim in Ubatuba, São Paulo. Working groups were organized with leaders to become community researchers, conducting interviews and actively mobilizing their communities. A structured questionnaire was developed, adapting 22 variables taken from the Protocol for the Collection of Cross-Cultural Comparative Data on Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts—LICCI Protocol. A total of 366 impacts were analyzed, after combining the georeferencing form data collected—Survey123 (280 impacts) and the interviews with community leaders (86 impacts). The results showed a significant level of cohesion (α = 0.01) between the Caiçara (artisanal fishers) and Quilombola (Afro-descendants) perceptions of climate-related events associated with their subsistence practices and climate variability. These findings highlighting the importance of DRM proposals that recognize traditional peoples and local communities as frontline vulnerable populations while acknowledging their role as key actors in identifying impacts, collecting data on land use and territory, subsistence-oriented activities, and cosmovision. However, it is still necessary to address climate change challenges at different scales. To do this, it is crucial to promote cognitive justice though the recognition of the values of the memories, perceptions and local knowledge, by scaling up locally-driven observations that empower local communities to lead their own climate adaptation efforts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c96bd9c28b8f46a29e25c4d33994fff02023-11-14T12:12:10ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Climate2624-95532023-11-01510.3389/fclim.2023.12430081243008Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areasRafael Damasceno Pereira0Lucas de Paula Brazílio1Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel2Maurício Duarte dos Santos3Letícia Milene Bezerra Silva4Lilian Fraciele Souza5Ana Carolina Santana Barbosa6Mario Ricardo de Oliveira7Ronaldo dos Santos8Ronaldo dos Santos9Danilo Pereira Sato10Allan Yu Iwama11National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warnings of Natural Disasters (Cemaden), Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, São José dos Campos, BrazilSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilIrish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Kildare, IrelandPolitical and Economic Law Program, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, BrazilSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilAssociation of Residents of the Campinho da Independência Quilombo, Paraty, BrazilAssociation of Friends of the Caiçara Museum, Ubatuba, BrazilAssociation of Friends of the Caiçara Museum, Ubatuba, BrazilAssociation of Residents of the Campinho da Independência Quilombo, Paraty, BrazilSecretary of Policies for Quilombolas, African Diasporic Peoples and Traditional Communities, and Romani People, Brazilian Ministry of Racial Equality, Brasília, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Human Geography, Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilPostgraduate Program of Development and Environment, Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, BrazilThe impacts of climate-related disasters can be estimated by climate models. However, climate models are frequently downscaled to specific settings to facilitate Disaster Risk Management (DRM) to better understand local impacts and avoid overlooking uncertainties. Several studies have registered the increasing importance of recognizing traditional knowledge, co-design, and collaboration with local communities in developing DRM strategies. The objective of this research was co-design local-scale observations with traditional and local communities to characterize their local context regarding the impacts of climate-related disasters. The citizen science approach coupled with participatory action research was conducted with two traditional communities in the Southeast of the Brazilian coast: Quilombo do Campinho da Independência in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, and the Caiçara (artisanal fishing) community of Ubatumirim in Ubatuba, São Paulo. Working groups were organized with leaders to become community researchers, conducting interviews and actively mobilizing their communities. A structured questionnaire was developed, adapting 22 variables taken from the Protocol for the Collection of Cross-Cultural Comparative Data on Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts—LICCI Protocol. A total of 366 impacts were analyzed, after combining the georeferencing form data collected—Survey123 (280 impacts) and the interviews with community leaders (86 impacts). The results showed a significant level of cohesion (α = 0.01) between the Caiçara (artisanal fishers) and Quilombola (Afro-descendants) perceptions of climate-related events associated with their subsistence practices and climate variability. These findings highlighting the importance of DRM proposals that recognize traditional peoples and local communities as frontline vulnerable populations while acknowledging their role as key actors in identifying impacts, collecting data on land use and territory, subsistence-oriented activities, and cosmovision. However, it is still necessary to address climate change challenges at different scales. To do this, it is crucial to promote cognitive justice though the recognition of the values of the memories, perceptions and local knowledge, by scaling up locally-driven observations that empower local communities to lead their own climate adaptation efforts.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1243008/fullcollaborative researchclimate change impactsvulnerabilitylocal indicators of climate changedisaster risk management |
| spellingShingle | Rafael Damasceno Pereira Lucas de Paula Brazílio Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel Maurício Duarte dos Santos Letícia Milene Bezerra Silva Lilian Fraciele Souza Ana Carolina Santana Barbosa Mario Ricardo de Oliveira Ronaldo dos Santos Ronaldo dos Santos Danilo Pereira Sato Allan Yu Iwama Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas Frontiers in Climate collaborative research climate change impacts vulnerability local indicators of climate change disaster risk management |
| title | Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas |
| title_full | Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas |
| title_fullStr | Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas |
| title_short | Traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate-related disaster impacts: a citizen science approach in Southeast Brazilian coastal areas |
| title_sort | traditional and local communities as key actors to identify climate related disaster impacts a citizen science approach in southeast brazilian coastal areas |
| topic | collaborative research climate change impacts vulnerability local indicators of climate change disaster risk management |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1243008/full |
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