Research project
Reconceptualising climate impacts from the bottom-up: An ethnoclimatology of climate risk (ETHNO-CLIM)
- Start date: 1 September 2024
- End date: 1 September 2029
- Funder: EU Horizon 2020
- Value: £2.1m
- Partners and collaborators: University of Bangor, Duke University, Columbia University
- Primary investigator: Professor James D. Ford
- Co-investigators: Dr Nick Malleson
- External co-investigators: Dr Iestyn Woolway, Dr Sarah Cooley, Dr Johnny Ryan; Dr Kelton Minor
- Postgraduate students: Sanola Sandiford
ETHNO-CLIM is developing new conceptual and methodological tools to understand how different cultures encounter, perceive, adapt to, and interact with climate change. Collaborating with Inuit communities in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, the project specifically focuses on the use of trails in a rapidly warming Arctic, combining both ‘bottom-up’ participatory modelling of current and projected climate-risk, and storytelling and visioning to create scenarios of future risk.