Publications

Tribal leaders, scholars and others working with tribes on climate change issues are increasingly engaged in bringing tribal voices to academic literature, agency climate reports, and other publications to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities in the United States, and the measures tribes across the country are taking to address climate change. Abstracts and materials provided by the publications are included in the descriptions.

Publication Year Geography Website
Luber, G., K. Knowlton, J. Balbus, H. Frumkin, M. Hayden, J. Hess, M. McGeehin, N. Sheats, L. Backer, C. B. Beard, K. L. Ebi, E. Maibach, R. S. Ostfeld, C. Wiedinmyer, E. Zielinski-Gutiérrez, and L. Ziska, 2014: Ch. 9: Human Health. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 220-256. doi:10.7930/J0PN93H5.

Categories: Climate change, Human Health, health impacts

2014 United States Link
Rising Voices. 2014. Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions. Workshop report. June 30-July 2, 2014. Boulder, CO, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Categories: Adaptation, impacts (health, livelihoods, declining sea ice), Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2014 Link
Bronen, R. 2013. Statutory limits prevent effective response to communities at climate risk. The Guardian, May 16, 2013.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, tribe, indigenous

2013 Alaska, Arctic Link
Maldonado, J. K., Colombi, B., & Pandya, R. (2014). Climate change and indigenous peoples in the United States: Impacts, experiences and actions. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05266-3

Categories: Climate change, indigenous, tribe

2014 United States Link
Rising Voices. 2014a Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions. Workshop Report. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, June 30-July 2.

Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, traditional knowledges, declining sea ice, Health, hazards, Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Bronen, R. and F. Stuart Chapin III, 2013. Adaptive governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations in Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Adaptive governance, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2013 Alaska
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014a A Multiple Knowledge Approach for Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons Learned from Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Journal of Political Ecology 21:61-82.

Categories: Adaptation, Relocation, coastal Lousiana, Multiple knowledge approach, tribe, indigenous

2014 Southeast Link
Rising Voices. 2014b Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions – Water Quality and Quantity Group Report. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, June 30-July 2.

Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, variability, water rights, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Brown, H.E., Comrie, A.C., Drechsler, D.M., Barker, C.M., Basu, R., Brown, T., Gershunov, A., Kilpatrick, A.M., Reisen, W.K., Ruddell, D.M. (2013). Human Health, Chapter 15 in the Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwestern United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment, A Report by the Southwest Climate Allinace, Island Press, Washington, DC, pp. 312-339.

Categories: Human Health

2013 Southwest Link
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014c. Facing the Rising Tide: Co-occurring Disasters, Displacement, and Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, American University.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, impacts (livelihoods, Health, cultural), Relocation, Coastal Louisiana, tribe, indigenous

2014 Southeast Link
Smith, L. M., Wade, C. M., Case, J. L., Harwell, L. C., Straub, K. R., & Summers, J. K. (2014). Evaluating the Transferability of a US Human Well-Being Index (HWBI) Framework to Native American Populations. Social Indicators Research, 1-26.

Categories: wellbeing, index, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States
Ford, J. D., Willox, A. C., Chatwood, S., Furgal, C., Harper, S., Mauro, I., & Pearce, T. (2014). Adapting to the effects of climate change on Inuit health. American journal of public health, 104(S3), e9-e17.

Categories: Alaska Natives, Health, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2014 Arctic, Alaska Link
Maslin, Mark. 2014. Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Categories: climate change science, Adaptation

2014 Global Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2014) Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC.

Categories: Housing, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Gruenig B, Lynn K, Voggesser G, Whyte P. 2015. Tribal climate change principles: responding to federal policies and actions to address climate change.

Categories: Climate change, indigenous, policy, tribe

2015 United States Link
US DOI. 2015. Available at: www.DOI.gov

Categories: Energy

2015 Link
Himes-Cornell, A., & Kasperski, S. (2015). Assessing climate change vulnerability in Alaska's fishing communities. Fisheries Research, 162, 1-11.

Categories: Traditional foods, Climate change, Fishing, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2015 Alaska, Arctic Link
Walker, R. 2015. Swinomish Tribe Files Lawsuit to Stop Bakken Crude Oil Trains. Indian Country Today Media Network. April 9, 2015. Available at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/09/swinomish-tribe-files-lawsuit-stop-bakken-crude-oil-trains-159938

Categories: Lawsuit, Swinomish, Bakken Crude Oil, Transportation, tribe, indigenous

2015 Pacfic Northwest Link
Houck, Oliver A. 2015 The Reckoning: Oil and Gas Development in the Louisiana Coastal Zone. Tulane Environmental Law Journal 28(2):185-296.

Categories: Old and Gas Industry, Development, Coastal Louisiana

2015 Southeast Link
Welch, Craig. 2015. Why Alaska’s Inupiat Are Warming to Offshore Oil Drilling. The National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150522-Inupiat-Shell-offshore-oil-Arctic-Alaska-ocean-whale-sea/ (accessed June 24, 2015)

Categories: Offshore oil drilling, Inupiat, tribe, indigenous

2015 Alaska, Arctic Link
Hummel S. Lake FK. (2015) "Forest Site Classification for Cultural Plant Harvest by Tribal Weavers can Inform Management" Forest Ecology.

Categories: blended scientific method, forest structure, cultural plants, silviculture, basketry, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), tribe, indigenous

2015 Northwest Link
Wilson, N. J., Walter, M. T., & Waterhouse, J. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge of Hydrologic Change in the Yukon River Basin: A Case Study of Ruby, Alaska. ARCTIC, 68(1), 93-106.

Categories: Climate change, Indigenous knowledge of water, socio-hydrology, river dynamics, Water Resources, tribe, indigenous

2015 Alaska Link
ICTMN Staff. 2015. Bakken-Crude-Hauling Oil Train Explodes in North Dakota, Town Evacuated. Indian Country Today Media Network:

Categories: oil industry, tribe, indigenous

2015 Midwest Link
Bennett, N. J., Kadfak, A. & Dearden, P. (2014). The Future We Want: Taking Action in Ban Talae Nok for the Community, the Environment and Climate Change. Victoria, BC: Marine Protected Areas Research Group, University of Victoria. 22 p.

Categories: Climate change, indigenous peoples, Ban Talae Nok, tribe, indigenous

2014 Global Link
Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Portal

Categories: indigenous, Climate change

2015 International Link
Bennett, T. M. B., N. G. Maynard, P. Cochran, R. Gough, K. Lynn, J. Maldonado, G. Voggesser, S. Wotkyns, and K. Cozzetto, 2014: Ch. 12: Indigenous Peoples, Lands, and Resources. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 297- 317. doi:10.7930/J09G5JR1.

Categories: Climate change, indigenous, Adaptation, tribe, forests resources, Fires, and traditional Food, Water Resources, sea ice, Permafrost Thaw, Relocation

2014 United States Link
Knapp C.N., Trainor S. F. 2015. Alaskan stakeholder-defined research needs in the context of climate change. Polar Geography.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Culture, Climate change, Worldviews, Stakeholder-defined research, tribe, indigenous

2015 Alaska, Arctic Link
Bronen, R. 2014. Community Relocations: The Arctic and South Pacific in Martin, S., Weerasinghe, S. and Taylor, A (editors) Humanitarian Crises and Migration Routledge: New York

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Migration and Diaspora, tribe, indigenous

2014 Global Link
Kronk Warner, E. A. (2015). Everything Old is New Again: Enforcing Tribal Treaty Provisions to Protect Climate Change Threatened Resources. Available at SSRN 2652954.

Categories: Climate change, tribe, indigenous, treaty, trust resources

2015 United States Link
Carter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, JayanthaCarter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, Jayantha Obeysekera, Paul J. Schramm, and David Wear 2014 Ch. 17: Southeast and the Caribbean. In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Jerry M. Melillo, Terese Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. Pp. 396-417. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Categories: Climate change, Southeast, Caribbean, Sea Level Rise, Increasing Temperatures, Water Resources

2014 Southeast Link