Climate Resilience from the Ground Up: Community and Indigenous Insights—A Case Study from Developing Nation
摘要
Indigenous groups emerge as essential guardians of a priceless natural heritage. These groups have developed good insights from generations coexisting with nature firmly rooted in their natural environment. Their commitment to nature preservation creates a complex network of understanding and practices that protect their local environment, flora, and wildlife. Also, Indigenous groups have insights into climate change adaptation by exhibiting several practices that help them to understand the variations in average temperature, wind, solar radiation, rainfall intensity, and patterns. This is pertinent because local communities and Indigenous people are experiencing real, continuing effects of climate change that are affecting many different aspects of their socio-ecological systems. Since agriculture has been the bulk of the population’s primary source of income, these effects tend to render the Indigenous population and the community vulnerable. Notwithstanding challenges and information shortages, these approaches may be strengthened by accepting and modifying newly imported technology from other societies or contemporary science. Therefore, it is necessary to identify these behaviours since community-based adaptation strategies could successfully mainstream them.