Conception of Traditional Knowledge Database Based on Climate Change

Abstract:

Recent years, the studies on global climate change, local traditional knowledge (TK) – especially traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) have attracted a lot of attention. Local traditional knowledge can reflect the ethnic groups’ specific understandings of climate change and its impact. However, studies on the relationship between traditional knowledge and climate change have not achieved such significant result thus far. This paper examines the perspectives, knowledge, and classification of climate change based on local Tibetan traditional knowledge in Deqin County of Yunnan, China. It analyses the local actions how to “cope with” climate change, and further discusses the relationship between traditional knowledge and ecological environment. The suggestion to establish the database of climate change, then, there will be a new system if the database can be connected with TK database. From the new system, we can analyze and choose the appropriate farming practices and “climate-ready” crops to respond to different predicted weather.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 743)
• Pages: 594-597
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.743.594
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: Yu Huan Du, Cheng Wang, Lun Yin, Da Yuan Xue*, Zhuo Ma Caiji
• Keywords: Climate Change, Database, Tibetan, Traditional Knowledge

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