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REFLECTIONS: LOCAL & COMMUNITY
PERSPECTIVES
REFLECTIONS: LOCAL & COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS: LOCAL & COMMUNITY
PERSPECTIVESPERSPECTIVES
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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• How we define a community – scale, economies, homogenous units
• Rural & Urban context – often not dissimilar concerns
• “South African Country Report on Climate Change” - 3 chapters devoted to impacts of change on plant, animal and marine diversity.
• Focus areas - impact on agriculture, rangelands, forestry, tourism, health, water resources
• Spatial and Temporal scale of impacts
• How to inform communities and respond?
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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• Role as educator and researcher?
• The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals
and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Decline of habitats and functionality
• Three key challenges:-
• Scale of information available, accessibility and
dissemination
• Economic / political / social marginalisation
• Short- over long-term benefits – survival versus
sustainability
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REFLECTIONSREFLECTIONS• Need to consider:
• Health impacts – HIV/AIDS, Cholera, Malaria –
effect on service provision, family structure
• Increase vulnerability to natural hazards
• Reliance on state-welfare
• How are natural resources valued
• How to manage and conserve
• Holistic policy responses, incld. Environ. and
Human dev. concerns
• Commercial versus subsistence farming
• Opportunity to diversify crops & diet
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REFLECTIONSREFLECTIONS• We need:
• Detailed information - though field studies,
• Understanding of ‘perceived’ agric. systems
(changes in patterns).
• Constraints – land tenure, access to
information, funding, ‘functional urbanites’, traditional values, movement away from
farming, non-farming alternatives
• Inclusion of marginalised & participatory
approach, ie Forest Participatory
Management
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REFLECTIONSREFLECTIONS• We have:
• University level training
• Mid-career professional training
• Government – level training
• Centre for African Crop Science
• African Centre for Food Security
• Hydrology / Climate change impact
• Community outreach programmes
• ‘Research in both Urban & Rural environs.
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QUESTIONSQUESTIONS
• How to impart knowledge gained and
incorporated into indigenous
knowledge and value systems?
• How to explain climate change and
consequences thereof to communities?
• Shared Knowledge, Understanding,
Communication, Co-operation
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FINISHED!