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| Type of paper: | Book Report |
| Subject area: | Geography |
| Academic level: | College |
| Style: | APA |
| Size: | 33.5 kB |
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533 words/2 pages
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| Mark awarded: |  |
| Author: | Leta Decker |
| Date submitted: | 2008-11-21 22:31:22 |
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| Tags: | writing, model, families, knowledge, values, offenders, english, traditional, composition, precis, Mackenzie, Science Meets Traditional Knowledge, Deline, Ponte, Cosi |
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Writing A Prycis In the span of 11 years (1994-2005 , Mackenzie GEWEX or MAGS (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment ) held studies about water and climate in Canada 's Mackenzie basin . Native communities (specifically Deline community ) in the vicinity of the basin were asked in order to integrate scientific and traditional ideas . Basically , scientific and traditional knowledge come from various perspectives and more often each centralized in different areas . Traditional knowledge is integrative in nature unlike scientific knowledge which used a reductionist approach . But in some instances , indigenous concepts can help scientific studies . Residence of the community have gained interest , hence MAGS arranged meeting so that they can share ideas from each other . Deline is situated in the Northwest portion of Canada . Lake and ice studies were conducted by MAGS with the participation of local inhabitants . Elders from the community gave the summary of traditional concepts while scientific ideas were supplied by the MAGS specialist . From these two ideas , Deline participants noticed that traditional knowledge undergoes gradual and continuous changes as a result of generating new information from scientific sources . MAGS focuses mainly on climate warming and variability . Temperatures from specific months and localities were gathered and tried to get trends and patterns . Also temperature records from particular years were collected and analyses based on observations were made . Furthermore , analyses showed that Mackenzie basin have the highest annual temperature variations in which traditional knowledge affirms . In traditional view , climatic changes were attributed to winter warming . On the other hand , on the scientist perspective climatic changes was due to fluctuation on air temperatures . In traditional insights , after an afternoon breeze , a calm summer morning comes . Scientist explains this as a result of sea-breeze came from a large body of water . Also Deline natives connected snow precipitation to what so called ``pineapple express ' while studies showed that snow fall is affected by frequent frontal activity during the late autumn and early winter . During early times , settlers of Deline believe that frequent fires happens when there is less lightning . Scientifically speaking , most fires in forest were caused by lightning but still fire depends also on the availability of material that can induce fire . Lake ice is formed when the temperature is too low and free from strong winds . But formerly , lake ice is believed to be formed due to calm winds . Another belief is that more snow means warmer climate ice is thin and less snow means colder climate ice is thick . But studies show that the coldness or hotness of climate is due to the insulating characteristic of snow . Advantages can be drawn from using traditional knowledge of ice processes in traveling and fishing . Precipitation and temperature are the two factors that affect the lake level . In addition to this , a direct relationship between precipitation and level exist while an inverse relationship exists between temperature and the level of the lake . In some instances , considering traditional beliefs is very important in achieving good results . Traditional knowledge may give more beneficial information than... |
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