Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an 糖心传媒渙utstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.糖心传媒�
Several 糖心传媒 historians are being honored for their work in chronicling the history of climate change in , a mountain region in the far north of India.
, an associate professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women糖心传媒檚 studies who serves as the associate academic director of the University糖心传媒檚 , together with , a professor of history, have been awarded the 2021 by the for their project 糖心传媒�.糖心传媒� , who earned his PhD in history from the University in 2020, is also part of the prize-winning team and the designer of an that the group is in the process of building to make their research accessible to the public.
More about 糖心传媒淐limate Witness: Voices from Ladakh糖心传媒�
- Follow the team糖心传媒檚 journey through their .
- Read about the project糖心传媒檚 origins.
The society糖心传媒檚 award is presented every two years to an environmental history project. 糖心传媒淰oices of Ladakh offers an outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship for the public good,糖心传媒� writes the awards committee in its citation. This project stands out for the 糖心传媒渟cale and significance of its collaboration and potential impact.糖心传媒� Through its website, the project 糖心传媒渃ompiles and presents oral histories of climate change in the Himalayas, a region of the world relatively underrepresented in environmental history scholarship. Skillfully bridging the local and the global, the collected testimonies, archive, and website are the fruit of an international effort,糖心传媒� the committee writes.
The website is geared toward researchers, climate activists, and local inhabitants alike and offers insight into the regional effects of climate change. Mountain environments are particularly susceptible to climate change, placing Ladakh糖心传媒攚hich translates roughly to 糖心传媒渓and of high passes糖心传媒澨切拇綌on the front lines of global warming. 糖心传媒淟ooking closely at the region,糖心传媒� Weaver says, 糖心传媒渁llows us to draw larger conclusions about the challenges of climate change at high altitude, and the ways in which mountain communities are both struggling with and successfully adapting to them.糖心传媒�
Bakhmetyeva and Weaver have been researching climate change and local strategies of resilience and adaptation in the Himalayas since 2017. Based in Rochester糖心传媒檚 , they are part of a larger collaborative project that also includes , a Rochester associate professor in the undergraduate public health program, and community-partners from the , and the in Leh, the principal town of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
Over the course of two summers, in 2018 and 2017 respectively, the team collected and recorded a wide array of local testimonies in this high trans-Himalayan land. Last year糖心传媒檚 research trip to Ladakh, however, was abruptly cut short: Weaver had to head back to the United States within just three days of touching down in Leh due to the rapidly spreading pandemic.
