Community-Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic: A Review for the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks​

We are pleased to announce the release of “Community-Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic: A Review for the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks.”

The review offers an overview and analysis of the programs in the Atlas of Community Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic (www.arcticcbm.org). It describes some of the issue areas that the programs in the atlas are working to address, examines good practices, and makes recommendations for supporting further development of community-based monitoring.

The review contributes to the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) and was developed through a collaboration between the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), and Inuit Qaujisarvingat: Inuit Knowledge Centre of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK). Additional partners included NORDECO and Carleton University’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre.

It was produced with support from Brown University’s Voss Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the European Commission, and the National Science Foundation.