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| 19 al 23 de agosto de 2007, Cairns, Australia
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Photo: (C) Paule Gros/UNESCO
| Conocimiento Indígena y Medio Ambientes Cambiantes:
Las Diversidades Biológica
y Cultural en Transición
Reunión Internacional de Expertos
19 al 23 de agosto de 2007, Cairns, Australia Una reunión internacional de expertos sobre “Conocimiento Indígena y Medio Ambientes Cambiantes” fue organizada por el Programa de la UNESCO sobre Sistemas de Conocimiento Locales e Indígenas (LINKS) en asociación con la Comisión Nacional para la UNESCO de Australia, del 19 al 23 de agosto en la ciudad de Cairns, en este país. El evento fue apoyado por Christensen Fund y conjuntamente auspiciado por el Instituto Australiano de Bosques Tropicales (Australian Tropical Forest Institute, ATFI) y el Departamento de Antropología, Arqueología y Sociología de la Universidad James Cook. Teniendo como telón de fondo la preocupación siempre en aumento sobre los impactos globales del cambio climático, especialistas de ciencias naturales y sociales, así como pueblos indígenas, se reunieron para deliberar sobre respuestas pasadas, actuales y futuras de las comunidades locales e indígenas a los medio ambientes cambiantes, incitadas por su conocimiento indígena. Comunicado de prensa: Using 'old' knowledge on climate change
Programa | Lista de participantes |
Context
Recent manifestations of the dynamism of the global environment, accompanied in some instances by considerable human suffering and loss of life (e.g. the Indian Ocean tsunami; violent tropical storms including Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; El Nino events; extreme incidents of flooding and drought), have alerted the global community to the urgent need (i) to better understand these ‘natural’ phenomena,(ii) to enhance their monitoring and the prediction of impacts, (iii) to improve preparedness and response capacity at national and local levels, and (iv) to take action to constrain human activities that may exacerbate negative effects. In strategies for international intervention, local and/or indigenous communities have generally found themselves relegated to the category of victims of environmental change or natural disasters, objects of development aid and targets for capacity building. While their need for development assistance is very real, such a shallow characterization hides a more complex reality. Contrary to Occidental stereotypes of traditional cultures as timeless, a-historical and static, local and indigenous societies have continuously confronted and engaged with changing environments: as active agents of environmental transformation; as champions of coping, resilience and adaptation; or as observers of change processes and predictors of impacts. Faced with environmental variability in all of its diverse forms, including those related to climate change, it is important to better understand the diverse repertoire of responses that local and indigenous communities around the world have put into practice in the past and that they can bring to bear on environmental challenges in the future... >> more in concept note [pdf. 112Kb]
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