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
Trosper, R.L., 2007. Indigenous influence on forest management on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Forest ecology and management, 249(1), pp.134-139. 2007 Wisconsin Link
Fatorić, S. and Seekamp, E., 2017. Evaluating a decision analytic approach to climate change adaptation of cultural resources along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Land Use Policy, 68, pp.254-263. 2017 Northeast, Atlantic Coast Link
United States Link
Journal of Ocean Technology 2019 National Link
Pearson, J., Jackson, G., & McNamara, K. E. (2021). Climate-driven losses to Indigenous and local knowledge and cultural heritage. The Anthropocene Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211005482 2021 Link
Brubaker, Mike; Flensburg, Sue; Skarada, Jennifer. 2014. Climate Change and Health Effects in Bristol Bay Region of Alaska. [powerpoint]. Alaska Strategies for Community Health. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: Center for Climate and Health, Anchorage.

Categories: Climate change, Indigenous health, Bristol Bay, Alaska, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2014 Alaska, Arctic Link
Cox, Lisa. “Global Temperature Rises Could Be Double Those Predicted by Climate Modelling.” The Guardian, 5 July 2018, www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/06/global-temperature-rises-could-be-double-those-predicted-by-climate-modelling.

Categories: "Temperature rises as a result of global warming could eventually be double what has been projected by climate models, according to an international team of researchers from 17 countries."

2018 Global Link
Cushman, John H. “Reshaping the Supreme Court: What 2 Dissents on Climate Rules Tell Us.” Inside Climate News, 10 July 2018, insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/justice-anthony-kennedy-retirement-environmental-laws-climate-change-case-massachusetts-v-epa-supreme-court?utm_source=InsideClimate News&utm_campaign=ee944cfe76-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ee944cfe76-327881649.

Categories: "What frightens environmental advocates is how far out of step conservative justices have been with science in the past. It showed in Massachusetts v. EPA."

2018 Link
Mateo-Vega, J., Potvin, C., Monteza, J., Bacorizo, J., Barrigón, J., Barrigón, R., López, N., Omi, L., Opua, M., Serrano, J., Cushman, K. C., & Meyer, C. (2017). Full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in forest monitoring for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): trial in Panama’s Darién. Ecosphere, 8(2). doi:10.1002/ecs2.1635

Categories: A recent study found that well-trained Indigenous technicians are just as effective at collecting the necessary data to monitor forest carbon emission viability.

2017 South America Link
Wilson N. 2014. The Politics of Adaptation: Subsistence Livelihoods and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Koyukon Athabascan Village of Ruby, Alaska. Human Ecology. February 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp
87-10

Categories: Adaptation Climate change Equity and justice Indigenous peoples Subsistence livelihoods Vulnerability Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2014 Alaska Link
Ford, J. D., Bell, T., & St-Hilaire-Gravel, D. (2010). Vulnerability of community infrastructure to climate change in Nunavut: a case study from Arctic Bay. In Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions (pp. 107-130). Springer Netherlands.

Categories: Adaptation Climate change Infrastructure Inuit Vulnerability Mixed methods, tribe, indigenous

2010 Arctic Link

Categories: adaptation plan, data, climate change, resources,

Midwest, Michigan Link
Oyate Omniciye: Oglala Lakota Plan. 2012. Available at: http://www.oglalalakotaplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Oyate-Omniciye-Final-.pdf

Categories: Adaptation Plan, Oglala Lakota Plan, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest Link
Armatas, C. A., T. J. Venn, B. B. McBride, A. E. Watson, and S. J. Carver. 2016. Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes. Ecology and Society 21(1):16.

Categories: adaptation planning, climate change, traditional knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, ecology, stewardship, fire management

2016 Western United States Link
Patrick L. Barnard, Li H. Erikson, Amy C. Foxgrover, Juliette A. Finzi Hart, Patrick Limber, Andrea C. O’Neill, Maarten van Ormondt, Sean Vitousek, Nathan Wood, and Maya K. Hayden & Jeanne M. Jones, March 2019, https://www.cakex.org/sites/default/files/documents/1-s2.0-S0308597X18306249-main.pdf

Categories: adaptation planning, vulnerability assessments, coastal adaptation, sea level rise, coastal hazards

2019 Coasts Link
Smit, Barry, and Johanna Wandel. 2006. Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity, and Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16: 282–292.

Categories: Adaptation, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, Applications, Community, Participatory, Bottom-up, Implementation, Mainstreaming

2006 Link
Armitage, Derek, Berkes, Fikret, Dale, Aaron, Kocho-Schellenberg, Erik, and Eva Patton. 2011. Co-management and co-production of knowledge: Learning to adapt in Canada’s Arctic. Global Environmental Change 21:995–1004.

Categories: Adaptation, Adaptive governance, Knowledge co-production, Knowledge integration, resilience, Social learning, Traditional Knowledge, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic, Global Link
Ford J, Furgal C (2009) Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic. Polar Res 28:1–9

Categories: Adaptation, Arctic, Climate change, environmental change, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic Link
Gearheard, S., W. Matumeak, I. Angutikjuaq, J. Maslanik, H.P. Huntington, J. Leavitt, D. Matumeak Kagak, G. Tigullaraq, and R.G. Barry. 2006. “It’s Not That Simple”: A Collaborative Comparison of Sea Ice Environments, Their Uses, Observed Changes, and Adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada. Ambio 35(4): 203–211.

Categories: Adaptation, Arctic, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources, sea ice, Inuits, Seasons, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic
Pearce, Tristan D., Ford, James D., Laidler, Gita J., Smit, Barry, Duerden, Frank Duerden, Allarut, Mishak, Andrachuk, Mark, Baryluk, Steven, Dialla, Andrew, Elee, Pootoogoo, Goose, Annie, Ikummaq, Theo, Joamie, Eric, Kataoyak, Fred, Loring, Eric, Meakin, Stephanie, Scott Nickels, Scot, Shappa, Kip, Shirley, Jamal, and Johanna Wandel. 2009. Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research 28(1):10–27.

Categories: Adaptation, Canadian Arctic, Climate change, community–researcher collaboration, Inuit, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic Link
Laursen, S., Puniwai, N., Genz, A. S., Nash, S. A., Canale, L. K., & Ziegler-Chong, S. (2018). Collaboration Across Worldviews: Managers and Scientists on Hawaiʻi Island Utilize Knowledge Coproduction to Facilitate Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Management. doi:10.1007/s00267-018-1069-7

Categories: adaptation, climate change, collaboration, knowledge co-production, knowledge forms, resilience, worldview

2018 Hawai'i Link
Laursen, S., Puniwai, N., Genz, A.S. et al. Environmental Management (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-018-1069-7

Categories: Adaptation, climate change, collaboration, knowledge coproduction

2018 Hawaii Link
National Wildlife Federation (2011) Facing the Storm: Indian Tribes, Climate-Induced Weather Extremes, and the Future for Indian Country. National Wildlife Federation Rocky Mountain Research Center, Boulder, Colorado, 28p.

Categories: Adaptation, Climate change, Government-Tribal impacts, National Wildlife Federation, tribe, indigenous

2011
Nania J. and K. Cozzetto et al. 2014. Considerations for climate change and variability adaptation on the Navajo Nation.

Categories: Adaptation, Drought, adaptive capacity, Risk Assessment, variability, tribe, indigenous

2014 Navajo Nation, Southwest Link
Dent, L.A., Donatuto, J., Campbell, L. et al. Incorporating Indigenous voices in regional climate change adaptation: opportunities and challenges in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change 176, 27 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03499-z

Categories: adaptation, equity

2023 United States, Northwest Link
Ingram KT, Dow K, Carter L, 2012: Southeast Region Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment.

Categories: Adaptation, extreme weather, climate impacts, Climate Modeling, climate variability, Coastal, Drought, Education, electric intrusion, Sea Level Rise, silviculture, social vulnerability, Southeast, storm surge, tropical, Mitigation

2012 Southeast Link
Harrington, Samantha. 2017. A Native American tribe is helping a forest adapt to climate change. Yale Climate Connections

Categories: adaptation, forests, climate change

2017 Wisconsin, Upper Midwest Link
Chief K. Daigle, J. Lynn K. Whyte, K. (2014) "Indigenous Experiences in the US Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship in the Anthropocene"

Categories: Adaptation, Forests, Culture, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States
Krakoff, S. 2011. Radical Adaptation, Justice, and American Indian Nations. Environmental Justice 4(4): 207-212.

Categories: Adaptation, historical removal from homelands, Cherokee Nation, environmental change, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest 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