Perception and Interpretation of Climate Change among Quechua Farmers of Bolivia: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource for Adaptive Capacity

We aim to explore how indigenous peoples observe and ascribe meaning to change. The case study involves two Quechua-speaking farmer communities from mountainous areas near Cochabamba, Bolivia. Taking climate change as a starting point, we found that, first, farmers often associate their observations...

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Main Authors: Sébastien Boillat, Fikret Berkes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2013-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss4/art21/