Interviews and Community Monitoring

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Interviews are going to be one of the most important aspects of our data collection. We will need to interview and monitor people during day-to-day activities and community events. The interviews should be conducted with as many members of the community as possible, not just the elites.

The purpose of the interviews will be to help determine a baseline structure of the community. The baseline structure is how the community’s social system has developed in response to the local environment and it the community’s history. We would hope to use this information for the following:

1. Preserving the history of the community; showing how it developed in the local physical and social environment;
2. Helping to make suggestions on how the community may need to make adjustments in its social structure to survive the coming changes in climate 

It will be important to stress that the initial interviews and monitoring of the community in action will be done without asking the community members about climate issues.

Once we have our field and research data collected and compiled, and we are able to make some assessments on the nature of the threats from climate change, then we will talk to the community about what we perceive is their situation.

This discussion will layout the what the perceived threats are from the current climate research, After making the threats clear to the community the discussion would then involve trying to layout what options the community will have to survive as a sustainable unit.  This discussion and exploration into options will require compilation of not just the interviews but also types of field data and office research collected. It is important to stress that any options we propose will have to take into consideration the opinions and concerns of the community.

Our objective is to help the community continue as a sustainable, viable unit.