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Mitigating and adapting to climate impacts from an African perspective: the complementary role of climate science and local knowledge systems II 
Convenor:
Gabriel Tati (University of the Western Cape)
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Discussant:
Gabriel Tati (University of the Western Cape)
Format:
Panel
Stream:
Climate change
Location:
Room 1199
Sessions:
Thursday 9 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

The impacts of climate change are being felt at different geographical levels across Africa. The panel discusses the role of the indigenous knowledge systems and that of the climate science in the generation of needed information for action in Africa.

Long Abstract:

Climate change affects the planet with different impacts. It is arguably one of the biggest challenges Africa, whichever the sub-region under consideration, has ever faced. African societies have traditionally relied on culturally and naturally embedded knowledge, learnt over centuries, to carry out pro-climate agricultural practices, protection of ancestral forests and rivers, limited deforestation, sea walling, dam construction, coastal marine protection and sustainable marine resources extraction. In the traditional societies, the reliance on indigenous knowledge contributed a symbiosis between mankind and nature.

Climate change occurs in a context of increasing consumption and production patterns that generate multifaceted vulnerabilities (food, water, health systems) that are central to the impacts that Africa currently experiences (cyclones, heating, flooding, rising sea level, to name a few). Such vulnerabilities are to be guided by knowledge brought about by either climate science or by indigenous knowledge systems or a combination of both to meet the demands for information. The panel addresses the following inter-related questions.

1) How is the warming climate experienced at the local level from a cultural lens?

2) What are the interventions being locally led, and what are the systems of knowledge production guiding these interventions?

'3) Is information about the climate change from the climate science complementary to indigenous knowledge , and how is this used in local production (farming, fisheries, urban planningand health services)?

Abstracts of about 250 words are solicited for this panel. The proposed contributions must be preferably built on empirical case studies.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 9 June, 2022, -