Synthesis of Academy and traditional knowledge
for adaptation of indigenous peoples to climate change
in Russia (Institute for Humanitarian Research and North Indigenous People Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences)

This workshop will be devoted to discuss main results of scientific researches of indigenous adaptation practices to climate change in North Yakutia. Examples of integrating scientific researches with indigenous peoples to address the impacts of climate change will be considered. Workshop focuses on human development, including catalysing investment in education, skills, health, and well-being, in particular for indigenous peoples.

Speakers:

• Vladimir Vasilev, Executive Director, The Northern Forum

Topic: «Northern Forum and projects to preserve traditional ecology knowledge»

• Viacheslav Shadrin

Topic: «Community-based monitoring as a tool for adaptation of indigenouspeoples to climate change (on the example of Oleneksky and Zhigansky districts of Yakutia)»

Online participants:

• Sardana Boyakova

Topic: «Constructing of environmental education programs in Siberia (Yakutia), based on the synthesis of traditional and scientific knowledge»

• Viktoriya Filippova

Topic: «Changing Watery World: traditional knowledge and adaptive practices of Indigenous peoples in Yakutia»

• Liliya Vinokurova

Topics: «Changing Watery World: traditional knowledge and adaptive practices of Indigenous peoples in Yakutia», «Winter everyday practices of Indigenous communities in Yakutia. XX – XXI centuries.»

• Alexander Suleymanov

Topic: «In partnership with Cold: synthesis of traditional and scientific knowledge on the management of cryogenic processes in modern livelihoods practices of the rural communities of Yakutia»

• Svyatoslav Fedorov

Topic: «In partnership with Cold: synthesis of traditional and scientific knowledge on the management of cryogenic processes in modern livelihoods practices of the rural communities of Yakutia»