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| Title: | Traditional way of thinking and prediction of climate change in New Caledonia (France) |
| Authors: | Lammel, Annamaria
Dugas, Emilie
Guillen, Elisa |
| Keywords: | Holistic thinking
Climate change
Indigenous knowledge
New Caledonia |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8 : E04H 9/16 ; G01B5/22 |
| Abstract: | In this paper we explore how the original
inhabitants of New Caledonia, a French Pacific collectivity, view current
climate change, explain its causes and predict climate modifications in the
coming 10-, 30- or 100-year periods. We start with the presumption that the
traditional worldview of indigenous habitants of New Caledonia allows the construction of a
holistic view of climate change despite the “western” teachings based on fundamental
analytical thinking in the French school system. Analysis of 61 semi-structured
interviews with indigenous adults of New
Caledonia demonstrates a universally held systemic
view of climate change, in which the circular interaction between activities (including
pollution of the air, surface water, cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere of
the Earth) is life threatening for all human beings. |
| Page(s): | 13-20 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(1) [January 2011]
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