Innovative approaches could enhance scientific insights into how climate change affects mountain ecosystems and livelihoods and enrich climate action. Using an inter- and transdisciplinary approach in a remote tropical dry forest region of the Andes in southern Ecuador, this article combines local knowledge about climate change and adaptation, based on perceptions and experiences, with quantitative climate measurements. Our theoretical framework is based on the concept of vulnerability and sustainable livelihoods perspectives. Methodologically, we draw on the Participatory Rural Appraisal approach. Participatory workshops and qualitative interviews were carried out in the canton of Macara between 2015 and 2017. Local and regional climate data series were analyzed for climate trends and extreme events. Our study improves understanding of the social and physical dimension of climate change. Especially in mountain areas, differing scales of climate data must be considered to capture local climate conditions and changes. Thus, local knowledge could make a major contribution to selecting representative climate datasets, estimating local impacts of climate change, and developing adaptation policies.

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经验与测量之间的相遇：地方知识在气候变化研究中的作用

创新方法可以增强对气候变化如何影响山区生态系统和生计的科学见解，并丰富气候行动。本文在厄瓜多尔南部安第斯山脉偏远热带干旱森林地区使用跨学科和跨学科方法，将基于感知和经验的当地气候变化和适应知识与定量气候测量相结合。我们的理论框架基于脆弱性和可持续生计观点的概念。在方法上，我们借鉴了参与式农村评估方法。2015 年至 2017 年在马卡拉州开展了参与式研讨会和定性访谈。分析了地方和区域气候数据系列的气候趋势和极端事件。我们的研究提高了对气候变化的社会和物理维度的理解。特别是在山区，必须考虑不同尺度的气候数据来捕捉当地的气候条件和变化。因此，当地知识可以为选择有代表性的气候数据集、估计气候变化的当地影响和制定适应政策做出重大贡献。