Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States
Impacts, Experiences and Actions
Editors: Maldonado, Julie Koppel, Benedict, Colombi, Pandya, Rajul (Eds.)
Free Preview- Written by a panel of experts in the effects of climate change on tribal communities
- Proposes strategies of adaptation and gives a timely report on climate change impacts on indigenous communities
- Applicable to all indigenous communities facing climate change
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- About this book
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With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book.
Previously published in Climatic Change, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.
- About the authors
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Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book, which explores climate-related issues in indigenous communities in the U.S., including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems; food security and traditional foods and water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation.
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From the book reviews:
“The articles in this collection lend timely evidence and detailed research to individuals and organizations seeking new solutions to the climate change crisis. They offer new paradigms for viewing ecological shifts, and negotiating the relationship between lawmakers, environmental scientists, and tribes indigenous to the United States. It also offers new and useful vocabulary for future researchers and policy makers … . this book will undoubtedly support and inspire further research.” (Rose Sayre, Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XXXIX (3), January, 2015)
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: climate change and indigenous peoples of the USA
Pages 1-7
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Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility
Pages 9-22
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Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation
Pages 23-36
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The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods
Pages 37-48
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Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska
Pages 49-59
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States
- Book Subtitle
- Impacts, Experiences and Actions
- Editors
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- Julie Koppel Maldonado
- Colombi Benedict
- Rajul Pandya
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-05266-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-05266-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-05265-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-35798-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 174
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
- Topics
