Case Study #2: Knowledge Timelines
exploring similarities and differences in local and scientific sources of climate information
Key contact: Dominic Kniveton, University of Sussex
Humanitarian decision-making level: Community at risk of flooding; Farming groups in drought prone area
Geographic region: Kenya and Senegal
Relevance of approach across scientific disciplines: Communicating uncertainty; Governance of Science; Indigenous knowledge.
AIMS OF DIALOGUE PROCESS
The method offers a means through which to explore community and scientific sources of knowledge and levels of confidence and uncertainties within each. While some disciplines (such as earthquakes) do not exhibit precursors, nevertheless this approach provides an opportunity to discuss existing knowledge sources, introduce ones about which either
This case study explores the basis to integrate local and scientific knowledge on climate variability and change. It aims to explore the different knowledge types that exist of the weather and climate change and that people use to make decisions; to understand their similarities and differences and to triangulate concepts of uncertainty and confidence in these difference knowledge types.