Sea level rise presents risks to ecosystems, populations, and infrastructure in low‐lying areas. This article considers diverse ways of knowing, understanding, and experiencing these risks. It explores differences and connections between knowledge produced through the technological methods of scientific research and that which emerges through the experiences and insights of local people. For example, while scientific assessments measure and forecast, among other things, the height and rate of vertical change in the sea level using instruments such as tide gauges and radar‐firing satellites, for local populations sea level rise is largely perceived and knowable through everyday processes and lived experiences of coastal changes as sea waters encroach onto the land. The review article reveals this diversity of knowledge and how it is produced. It considers how these different forms of knowledge might coalesce in ways that can more effectively inform understandings of, and responses to, the varied effects of sea level rise. Focusing specifically on spatial and temporal understandings of sea level rise—as the vertical rise of sea levels and inward encroachment of sea water, and timescales from the everyday to the decadal and centennial—this article concludes by arguing for the importance of integrating scientific measurement and modeling with local knowledge. It suggests that local and Indigenous knowledge should not merely represent an enrichment of scientific facts, but rather that bringing together local/Indigenous and scientific knowledge can provide significant ways of knowing and sensing the world that can build the resilience of social‐ecological systems.

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了解海平面上升的时空方法：汇集多种观点

海平面上升对低洼地区的生态系统，人口和基础设施构成风险。本文考虑了各种了解，理解和体验这些风险的方法。它探讨了通过科学研究的技术方法所产生的知识与通过当地人的经验和见解所产生的知识之间的差异和联系。例如，尽管科学评估使用潮汐仪和发射雷达的卫星等手段对海平面的垂直变化的高度和速率进行测量和预测，但对于当地居民来说，海平面的上升在很大程度上是日常可觉察的和可知的。海水侵占陆地的过程，以及沿海变化的过程和生活经验。这篇评论文章揭示了这种知识的多样性以及它是如何产生的。它考虑了这些不同形式的知识如何以可以更有效地为对海平面上升的各种影响的理解和反应提供信息的方式合并。本文主要针对海平面上升的时空理解（即海平面的垂直上升和海水的内向侵入以及从每天到十年和百年的时间尺度）进行总结，最后总结了将科学的测量方法和科学方法相结合的重要性。用本地知识进行建模。它表明，本地和土著知识不仅应代表丰富科学事实，而且应将本地/土著和科学知识融合在一起，可以提供了解和感知世界的重要方式，从而可以增强社会生态系统的适应力。