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

Categories: Public Health, preparedness, climate change, planning, adaptation, community health

National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions

International Link

Categories: Public Health, Climate Change, assessment

National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, adaptation, planning, mitigation, integration

National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, adaptation, planning, mitigation

National Link
United States, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preparing for the Health Effects of Drought; A Resource Guide for Public Health Professionals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018.

Categories: public health, climate change impacts, drought, vector-borne diseases and infections, air quality, infrastructure, preparedness

2018 National Link

Categories: Public Health, assessment, climate change

National, International Link

Categories: Public Health, air quality, climate change, extreme events, information

California Link

Categories: Public Health, adaptation, preparedness, air quality, climate change, extreme events

2015 National Link
Oguamanam, C. (2004) Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge”. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 11:2

Categories: Protection of traditional knowledge, indigenous people, tribe, international law, international policy, intellectual property rights

2004 International Link
Broyles, Robin. "Native Fire". Bureau of Indian Affairs releases Native Fire - An Educational Video about the Safe Use and Application of Prescribed Fire. June 2019. https://www.bia.gov/bia/ots/dfwfm/bwfm/forestry-fire-management-stories/bureau-indian-affairs-releases-native-fire

Categories: prescribed fire, traditional ecological knowledge, ecosystem restoration, community

2019 Southern Plains Link
Southern Methodist University, and UA Communications. “Native Bison Hunters Amplified Climate Impacts on Prairie Fires.” UA News, 24 July 2018, uanews.arizona.edu/story/native-bison-hunters-amplified-climate-impacts-prairie-fires.

Categories: prescribed burns, fire management

2018 Prairie Link
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Categories: preparedness, strategies, government capabilities

2019 United States. Link
Luce, Charles, and Zachary Holden. Consequences of an Endless Summer: Untangling the Link Between Summer Precipitation and Western Wildfires. United States Department of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2018, Consequences of an Endless Summer: Untangling the Link Between Summer Precipitation and Western Wildfires.

Categories: precipitation, wildfires, drought management

2018 Western U.S. Link
The Salmon People at Risk: What Climate Change Means for the Puyallup Tribe. LRInspire. 2016.

Categories: ppuyallup, salmon, fisheries, traditional foods, TEK, sovereignty, climate change, water health

2016 Washignton State Link
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
Begay, Jade, and Ayşe Gürsöz. “Why Defending Indigenous Rights Is Integral to Fighting Climate Change.” Independent Media Institute and Rainforest Action Network, 5 Sept. 2018, www.ecowatch.com/defending-indigenous-rights-climate-change-2602221014.html.

Categories: pollution, front-line communities, climate change impacts, community health, environmental justice

2018 National Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten and Kathy Lynn. 2015. Strengthening the Federal-Tribal Relationship: A Report on Monitoring Consultation under the Northwest Forest Plan. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 20 Year Reports. FS/R6/PNW/2015/0005.

Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry

2015 Northwest Link
Harris, Gary; Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katie; Satein, Hannah; University of Oregon (UO) Resource Innovation Group; UO Institute for a Sustainable Environment. 2011. Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 15 Year Reports. R6-RPM-TP-01-2011.

Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry

2011 Northwest Link
USFWS. 2016. The Service's: Native American Policy. 510 FW 1.

Categories: Policy, Conservation, Cultural Resources, Federal-Tribal Collaboration

2016 National Link
Rising Voices: Collaborative Science for Climate Solutions. 2015. Recommendations to the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties.

Categories: Policy, Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples

2015 National Link
Leigh Brown, Patricia. 2017. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp. The New York Times

Categories: PNW, culture

2017 Pacific Northwest, California Link
Barrera, S. 2017. Cherokee playwright tackles love, climate change at Autry.

Categories: playwright, theater, climate justice, climate change, court, law, legislation, planning, policy

2017 United States Link
Lieberman, Bruce. “Looking Anew at Plastics and Climate Change.” Yale Climate Connections, 26 Sept. 2018, www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/09/looking-anew-at-plastics-and-climate-change/?popupally_stop=subscriber.

Categories: plastics, oceans, Co2 emissions, industry, renewable energy

2018 Link
University of Edinburgh. "Taller plants moving into Arctic because of climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 September 2018. .

Categories: plants, arctic, climate change, ecosystem health

2018 Arctic Link
Thorne, K.M., Powelson, K.W., Bui T.D., Freeman, J.Y. Takekawa, C.M., Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 2016. Assessing coastal manager science needs and disseminating science results for planning. Data Summary Report Prepared for the
California and North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA. 110 pp.

Categories: Planning, Science in Planning, Coastal Management, Natural Resource Management

2016 Pacific Ocean, Northwest, West, Alaska Link

Categories: Place, Culture, Apache, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous

1996 Southwest
Hong, E., Perkins, R., & Trainor, S. (2014). Thaw Settlement Hazard of Permafrost Related to Climate Warming in Alaska. Arctic, 67(1), 93-103.

Categories: Permafrost Settlement Hazard Index, permafrost, thaw subsidence, thaw settlement, thaw settlement risk in Alaska, climate warming

2014 Alaska, Arctic Link
Sanchez-Cortes, M.S. and Chavero, E.L. (2010) Indigenous Perception of Changes in Climate Variability and its Relationship with Agriculture in a Zoque Community, Chiapas, Mexico. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s1584-010-9972-9.

Categories: perceptions climate knowledge changes in climate variability chichón Volcano Zoque indigenous, tribe

2010 International Link
USDA, Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service) (2014) Memorandum of Understanding Among the Eastern Band Of Cherokee Indians North Carolina Arboretum and Germplasm Repository U.S. Geological Survey, N. Carolina Water Science Center and the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. FS Agreement Number 14-MU-11330101-076

Categories: partnership, Natural Resources, Cultural Resources, tribe, indigenous

2014 Southeast Link