Drawing on diverse knowledge systems to enhance local climate understanding in the southern Cape, South Africa

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q1 ECOLOGY
C. D. Ward, G. Cundill, G. Midgley, A. Jarre
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Abstract

By overlaying terrestrial and marine perspectives, we examine complex system change at the local scale of the southern Cape and Agulhas Bank in South Africa through placing different knowledge bases on climate variability alongside each other. This research adds insights into how social components of complex systems interact with environmental change and contributes to confirming environmental regime shifts in the research area; identifying knowledge disconnects for ecosystem services linked to terrestrial water availability; and highlights scale disconnects in fisher observations in nearand off-shore change. The benefits of examining these diverse bodies of knowledge in parallel across terrestrial and marine systems are evident in the synergies and disconnects that emerge from our integrative approach. Although impossible to eliminate uncertainty around projected climate variability and change, this multi-evidence base strengthens advice for evidence-based, strategic decision making that is locally relevant. The methodology pursued adds to the global learning on overlaying multiple bodies of knowledge in support of sustainability.
利用多样化的知识系统,增强对南非南开普省当地气候的理解
通过叠加陆地和海洋视角,我们通过将气候变化的不同知识库放在一起,研究了南非南开普省和阿古拉斯银行当地范围内的复杂系统变化。这项研究深入了解了复杂系统的社会组成部分如何与环境变化相互作用,并有助于确认研究领域的环境制度变化;查明与陆地水供应相关的生态系统服务的知识脱节;并强调了fisher在近海和近海变化中观测到的尺度脱节。在陆地和海洋系统中并行研究这些不同的知识体系的好处在我们的综合方法中产生的协同作用和脱节中是显而易见的。尽管不可能消除预测的气候变异性和变化的不确定性,但这种多证据基础加强了对基于证据的、与当地相关的战略决策的建议。所追求的方法增加了全球对覆盖多个知识体系以支持可持续性的学习。
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Ecology and Society
Ecology and Society 环境科学-生态学
CiteScore
6.20
自引率
4.90%
发文量
109
审稿时长
3 months
期刊介绍: Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Manuscript submission, peer review, and publication are all handled on the Internet. Software developed for the journal automates all clerical steps during peer review, facilitates a double-blind peer review process, and allows authors and editors to follow the progress of peer review on the Internet. As articles are accepted, they are published in an "Issue in Progress." At four month intervals the Issue-in-Progress is declared a New Issue, and subscribers receive the Table of Contents of the issue via email. Our turn-around time (submission to publication) averages around 350 days. We encourage publication of special features. Special features are comprised of a set of manuscripts that address a single theme, and include an introductory and summary manuscript. The individual contributions are published in regular issues, and the special feature manuscripts are linked through a table of contents and announced on the journal''s main page. The journal seeks papers that are novel, integrative and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience that includes an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends.
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