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
Higuera, P. E., L. B. Brubaker, P. M. Anderson, T. A. Brown, A. T. Kennedy, and F. S. Hu, 2008: Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: Implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change. PLoS ONE, 3, e0001744, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001744. URL ↩

Categories: Arctic, Fires, environmental change

2008 Alaska, Arctic Link
Harris, P. M., A. D. Neff, S. W. Johnson, and J. F. Thedinga. 2008. Eelgrass habitat and faunal assemblages in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFSAFSC-182, 46 p.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, eelgrass, habitat, spawning, Zostera marina, shoreline, coastal, marine, herring, shellfish, fisheries, water quality, biotic species,

2008 Alaska Link
James, K., Hall, D., and Redsteer, M. H., (2008) Organizational Environmental Justice with a Navajo (Diné) Nation Case Example. In Research in Social Issues in Management, Stephen Gilliland, Dirk Steiner, and Daniel Skarlicki, eds.; Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT, p.263-290.

Categories: enviromental injustice, Reservation, Environmental management, Environmental Protection, Coal mining, Navajo Nation, Diné, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice

2008 Southwest
Jenkins, P. Phillips, B. 2008. Domestic Violence and Hurricane Katrina.

Categories: Domestic violence, Hurricane Katrina

2008 Southeast
Krakoff, S., 2008: American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World. University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-19. Denver University Law Review. URL ↩

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, ethnics, Treaties

2008 United States Link
Laidler, Gita J. and Teo Ikummaq. 2008. Human Geographies of Sea Ice: Freeze/thaw processes around Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Record 44 (229): 127-153

Categories: sea ice, Inuit knowledge, Language, environmental change, tribe, indigenous

2008 Arctic Link
McNutt, D., 2008: Native Peoples: The "Miners Canary" on Climate Change. 16 pp., Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, Evergreen State College. URL ↩

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2008
Muir, J.D., (1911) My First Summer in the Sierra. Copyright 2008, Digireads.com, 120 p. 2008
Newcomb, S. T., 2008: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Fulcrum Publishing, 216 pp. URL ↩

Categories: U.S. federal Indian law, Indian policy, cognitive theory, Race relations, Religion, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
Pfeiffer J, Voeks R (2008) Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems. Environ Conserv 35:281–293. doi:10.1017/S0376892908005146

Categories: Alien species, biocultural diversity, biological invasions, cultural diversity, diaspora, exotic species, indigenous, introduced species, Invasive Species, traditions, Weeds

2008
Piguet, Etienne. 2008 Climate Change and Forced Migration. New Issues in Refugee Research. Research 2008 Link
Reed, A. 2008. Class inequality, liberal bad faith, and neoliberalism: the true disaster of Katrina. In N. Gunewardena and M. Schuller (eds.) Capitalizing on catastrophe: neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. Pp. 147-154.

Categories: Inequality, Katrina, Neoliberalism, Disasters

2008 Southeast
Roth, George. 2008. Recognition. In Indians in Contemporary Society. Ed. Garrick A. Bailey. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 2. William C. Sturtevant, general editor, pp. 113–128. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Categories: Federal Recognition, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
Ryan, M. G., S. R. Archer, R. Birdsey, C. Dahm, L. Heath, J. Hicke, D. Hollinger, T. Huxman, G. Okin, R. Oren, J. Randerson, and W. Schlesinger, 2008: Ch. 3: Land Resources. The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity.A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, P. Backlund et al., Ed., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 75-120. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Land resources, Agriculture, Water Resources, Biodiversity

2008 United States
Sakakibara, C. (2008). “Our Home Is Drowning”: Iñupiat Storytelling And Climate Change In Point Hope, Alaska”. Geographical Review, 98(4), 456-475.

Categories: Alaska, Climate change, coastal erosion, Point Hope, storytelling, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska
Sarche, M. and Spicer P., (2008) Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1136: p. 126-136.

Categories: poverty, health disparities, children, American Indian, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States Link
Smith, J.B., Schneider, S.H., Oppenheimer, M., Yohe, G.W., Hare, W., Mastrandrea, M., Patwardhan, A., Burton, I., Corfee-Morlot, J., Magadza, C.H.D., Fussel, H.M., Pittock, A.B., Rahman, A., Suarez, A. and van Ypersele, J.P. (2008). Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘‘reasons for concern.’’ Publication of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 106, No. 11, p. 4133-4137. 2008
Teresa Evans-Campbell. 2008. Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities: Multilevel Framework for Exploring Impacts on Individuals, Families, and Communities. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 23(3): 316-338.

Categories: historical trauma, American Indians, microaggressions, intergenerational trauma, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States Link
Turner, N. J., R. Gregory, C. Brooks, L. Failing, and T. Satterfield. 2008. From invisibility to transparency: Identifying the implications. Ecology and Society 13(2): 7.

Categories: First Nations, decision making, resource use, negotiations, cultural values, tribe, indigenous

2008 Western North America
Alessa L, Kliskey A, Busey R, Hinzman L, White D (2008) Freshwater vulnerabilities and resilience on the Seward Peninsula: integrating multiple dimensions of landscape change. Global Environ Chang 18:256–270

Categories: Arctic, Landscape change, resilience, Social–ecological systems, vulnerability, Mapping, tribe, indigenous

2008 Arctic Link
Hanna, Jonathan. 2007 Native Communities and Climate Change: Legal and Policy Approaches to Protect Tribal Legal Rights. Natural Resources Law Center, Boulder, CO.

Categories: Climate change, environmental policy, Federal Government, Law, Natural Resources, policy, State Government, Tribal Governments, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States Link
Houde, N. (2007). The six faces of traditional ecological knowledge: challenges and opportunities for Canadian co-management arrangements. Ecology and Society, 12(2), 34.

Categories: Canada, co-management, co-management arrangement, First Nation, Natural Resource Management, traditional ecological knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2007 Canada
Indian Health Services (2007) Public Law 86-121 Annual Report for 2007. Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, Public Health Service, 50p. Available at http://www.ihs.gov/dsfc/documents/SFCAnnualReport2007.pdf .

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007 Link
IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H.L. Miller, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 996 pp. URL

Categories: Climate change, Science

2007 International
Kelley, D. (2007) A Struggling Tribe Faces New Hardships. Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2007.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007
Novak, R.M., 2007, Climate variability and change in the Chuska Mountain area: impacts, information, and the intersection of western science and traditional knowledge. Unpublished Master’s thesis. University of Arizona.

Categories: local knowledge, Agriculture

2007 Southwest Link
Klein, N. 2007. The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism. New York: Picador.

Categories: Climate change, political ecomony, capitalism

2007
Knudson, C.L., Hayes, M.J., and Svoboda, M.D. (2007) Case Study of Tribal Drought Planning: The Hualapai Tribe; Natural Hazards Review, p.125-131.

Categories: Case reports, Droughts, American Indians, United States, tribe, indigenous

2007
Palacios, S.L. and Zimmerman, R.C., 2007. Response of eelgrass Zostera marina to CO² enrichment: possible impacts of climate change and potential for remediation of coastal habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 344, pp.1-13.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, Eelgrass, Zostera marina, carbon dioxide, productivity, climate change, coastal, marine resources, habitat, restoration, management, coastal change

2007 Alaska Link
Liu, D., Kelly, M., Gong, P., and Guo Q., (2007) Characterizing spatial-temporal tree mortality patterns associated with a new forest disease. Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 253, p. 220-231.

Categories: Sudden Oak Death, Spatial–temporal patterns, Spatial point pattern analysis, Inhomogeneous K function, Neyman–Scott point process

2007 Northwest Link