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 Sort ascending Geography Website
Noorgard, Kari Marie. "Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change." Yes Magazine!, 21 Oct. 2019, https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/fire-climate-change-indigenous-colonization-20191021

Categories: fire suppression, colonization, prescribed burning, traditional management, traditional foods

2019 Northern California Link
Sowerwine, J., Mucioki, M., Sarna-Wojcicki, D. et al. Food Sec. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00925-y

Categories: food security, tribal food security, community health, culture, native foods, eco-cultural restoration

2019 Klamath River Basin, Southern Oregon, Northern California Link
By: Renee Crain Wagner, Arctic Research Support and Logistics (RSL) Program Manager at NSF; Amina Schartup, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow hosted in the NSF Office of Polar Programs, Arctic Sciences Section; and Meredith LaValley, IARPC.

Categories: research, arctic, communication, indigenous knowledge, protection, relationship building, environmental stewardship

2019 Arctic Link
Herman-Mercer, Nicole M, et al. “Vulnerability of Subsistence Systems Due to Social and Environmental Change: A Case Study in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska .” Arctic Journal of the Arctic Insitute of North America, vol. 72, 10 Sept. 2019, https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/68867.

Categories: arctic, indigenous communities, subsistence, climate change, subsistence

2019 Arctic Link
Corringham, T. W., Ralph, F. M., Gershunov, A., Cayan, D. R., & Talbot, C. A. (2019). Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United States. Science Advances, 5(12). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax4631

Categories: atmospheric rivers, precipitation, flooding, economic impacts, climate change, development

2019 Western United States Link
Brewen, J., Hayes, J. (2019). United States Department of Agriculture, "New Science Framework Provides Basis for Conservation and Restoration of Sagebrush". https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/16/new-science-framework-provides-basis-conservation-and-restoration-sagebrush

Categories: conservation, restoration, sagebrush, science, resilience, land management

2019 Link
Ensia

Categories: fire management, tribal knowledge, indigenous practices

2019 Global, Australia Link
Charnley, Susan. 2018. Beavers, landowners, and watershed restoration: experimenting with beaver dam analogues in the Scott River basin, California. Res. Pap. PNW-RP-613. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 38 p.

Categories: hydrology, ecology, beavers, watersheds, restoration, range lands, streams

2019 Scott River Basin, Northern California Link
Gregg RM, Kershner J. 2019. Extremes to Ex-Streams: Ecological Drought Adaptation in a Changing Climate. EcoAdapt, Bainbridge Island, WA.

Categories: ecological drought, climate change impacts, natural resource management, cultural resources, adaptation, warming temperatures, precipitation, snowpack, water availability

2019 Northwest Link
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Categories: preparedness, strategies, government capabilities

2019 United States. Link
Bisbal, G. A., & Jones, C. E. (2019). Responses of Native American cultural heritage to changes in environmental setting. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15(4), 359–367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180119847726

Categories: cultural heritage, identity, environmental changes, relationships, vulnerability, resilience

2019 National Link
Keyser, A.R, et al. "Predicting increasing high severity area burned for three forested regions in the western United States using extreme value theory" Forest Ecology and Management. 15 January, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.027

Categories: fire suppression, federal management, fire regimes, fire cycles, fire frequency

2019 Western United States, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Southwest Link
DeMarban, Alex. "Add Krill and mussels to the list of unusual marine deaths in Northwest Alaska". Anrchorage Daily News, July 7, 2019, https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2019/07/07/add-krill-and-mussels-to-the-list-of-unusual-marine-deaths-in-northwest-alaska/

Categories: marine life, warming temperatures, climate change, ice melt, seabirds, unusual ocean conditions

2019 Northwest Alaska Link
Restoration Ecology

Categories: indigenous, ecosystems, Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC), resilience

2019 United States. Link
Hakai Magazine

Categories: Tribes, salmon, resources, snow, drought, Columbia River

2019 Northwest Link
Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, "Unique Method for Stakeholder Input Informs Co-Produced Model of Sudden Oak Death Transmission". June 6, 2019. https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2019/06/06/unique-method-for-stakeholder-input-informs-co-produced-model-of-sudden-oak-death-transmission/

Categories: infectious forest disease, stakeholder input, modeling, sudden oak death, timber industry

2019 Link
David Suzuki Foundation

Categories: energy, climate change, social challenges, diversity

2019 United States Link
White, Avery. “The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Goes Solar.” The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Goes Solar -, High Country News, 16 July 2019, www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-the-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-goes-solar.

Categories: renewable energy, carbon-free energy, decarbonization, energy efficiency, sovereignty, solar panels, infrastructure, local knowledge

2019 Colorado Link
National Health Board

Categories: IPCC, temperatures, climate change, oceans, coral reefs

2019 Oceans Link
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. “How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and Environmental Justice.” How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and Environmental Justice -, High Country News, 10 July 2019, www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-how-to-indigenize-the-green-new-deal-and-environmental-justice.

Categories: Green New Deal, environmental justice, indigenize, sovereignty, climate change, tribes

2019 National Link
Zollitsch, B., Stelk, M., Schiller, S., Seary, S., & Dooley, W. (2019). Healthy Wetlands, Healthy
Watersheds: Leveraging state wetland restoration and protection programs to improve watershed health.
Association of State Wetland Managers, Windham, Maine.

Categories: watershed restoration, climate change, integration, capacity, tribal wetland restoration, resiliency, watershed health

2019 Washington Link
Mote, P.W., J. Abatzoglou, K.D. Dello, K. Hegewisch, and D.E. Rupp, 2019: Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report. Oregon Climate Change Research Institute. occri.net/ocar4.

Categories: climate change, assessment, climate science, air quality, wildfires, water, snow pack, natural resources, rural

2019 Oregon Link
Heinsius, Ryan. “Bearing Witness: Voices Of Climate Change Part VII: Adapting Tribal Ceremonies To A Changing Climate.” KNAU Arizona Public Radio, 14 June 2019, www.knau.org/post/bearing-witness-voices-climate-change-part-vii-adapting-tribal-ceremonies-changing-climate.

Categories: climate change, long-term observation, ceremonies, traditional plants, indigenous observation, adaptation

2019 Arizona Link
Ford, J.D., et al. “Changing Access to Ice, Land and Water in Arctic Communities.” Nature Climate Change, no. 9, 18 Mar. 2019, pp. 335–339., www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0435-7#article-info.

Categories: arctic, climate change, climate change impacts, trails, transportation, access, indigenous knowledge, weather, sea ice

2019 Arctic, Northern Canada Link
Crozier LG, McClure MM, Beechie T, Bograd SJ, Boughton DA, Carr M, et al. (2019) Climate vulnerability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0217711. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217711

Categories: Pacific salmon, steelhead, vulnerability assessment, climate change, ecosystems, stream temperature, ocean acidification, habitat degradation

2019 California, Southern Oregon, Snake River Basin, Columbia River Basin, Willamette Link
Khalafzai, Muhammad-Arshad K., et al. “Flooding in the James Bay Region of Northern Ontario, Canada: Learning from Traditional Knowledge of Kashechewan First Nation.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 27 Feb. 2019, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101100.

Categories: traditional knowledge, floods, disaster management, collaboration, warming temperatures, snowmelt, monitoring, indigenous communities

2019 Northern Ontario, Canada Link
Talloni-Álvarez, Nicolás E., et al. “Climate Change Impact on Canada's Pacific Marine Ecosystem: The Current State of Knowledge.” Marine Policy, vol. 104, no. June 2019, pp. 163–176., doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.035.

Categories: climate change impacts, oceans, acidification, rising temperatures, marine health, equity, fishing access, First Nations

2019 Canada Link
Johnson, A.C.; Noel, J.; Gregovich, D.P.; Kruger, L.E., and Buma, B., 2019. Impacts of submerging and emerging
shorelines on various biota and indigenous Alaskan harvesting patterns. Journal of Coastal Research, 35(4), 765–775.
Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.

Categories: Climate change, coastal resilience and vulnerability, landform, isostatic rebound, sea level rise, adaptation

2019 Pacific Northwest, Alaska Link
Farmington Daily Times

Categories: renewable energy, development, Navajo

2019 Navajo Nation Link
Indigenous Peoples’ Major Group for Sustainable Development (2019). Inclusion, Equality, and Empowerment to Achieve Sustainable Development: Realities of Indigenous Peoples [Thematic Report]. Retrieved from https://www.indigenouspeoples-sdg.org/index.php/english/all-resources/ipmg-position-papers-and-publications/ipmg-reports/global-reports/124-inclusion-equality-and-empowerment-to-achieve-sustainable-development-realities-of-indigenous-peoples/file

Categories: indigenous peoples, United Nations, IPCC, land management, sovereignty, human rights, indigenous rights

2019 International Link