Replication Data for: "Consistency in climate change impact reports among Indigenous Peoples and local communities depends on site contexts"

Indigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climate change impacts in the atmospheric system and on biophysical elements that support their livelihood activities. Investigating local understandings of these changes, and their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Schunko, Christoph, Reyes-García, Victoria
Tipo de recurso: conjunto de datos
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC)
Repositorio:CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:cora.rdr____::bef4fb75317cf9a3d606f0af8d187716
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.34810/DATA958
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social Sciences
Biocultural diversity
Cultural consensus
Ethnoclimatology
Indicator
Indigenous and local knowledge systems
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Sumario:Indigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climate change impacts in the atmospheric system and on biophysical elements that support their livelihood activities. Investigating local understandings of these changes, and their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively support monitoring and adaptation strategies. In this study, we aimed to understand the consistency in climate change impact reports among Indigenous Peoples and local communities and factors influencing consistency at site and individual levels. We conducted cross-cultural research among iTaukei (Fiji), Dagomba (Ghana), Fisher (Tanzania), Tsimane’ (Bolivia), Bassari (Senegal), Ribeirinhos (Brazil), Mapuche (Chile), Mongolian (China), Tibetan (China) and Daasanach (Kenya) communities using semi-structured interviews, focus groups and surveys among 1,860 individuals. We found that more than two-thirds of individual reports of climate change impacts match site-confirmed reports. Consistency in reports is higher for changes related to pastoralism than crop production and wild plant gathering and higher for changes related to temperature, seasons and precipitation than air masses. Individual nature experience, Indigenous and local knowledge and local family roots are not significantly associated with consistency in reports across sites, but site-specific associations are prevalent. These results indicate that despite high average consistency among sites, there is considerable variation caused by site-specific factors, including livelihood activities pursued, socio-cultural settings and environmental conditions. Site contexts and related consistency in climate change impact reports need to be taken into account for climate change monitoring and adaptation planning.