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 Sort descending Year Geography Website
Vose, J.M.; Clark, J.S.; Luce, C.H.; Patel-Weynand, T., eds. 2016. Effects of drought on forests and rangelands in the United States: a comprehensive science synthesis. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-93b. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington Office. 289 p.

Categories: Drought, Management, Climate Science, Forest, Rangelands, Science Synthesis

2016 United States Link
W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, Grant J. Williamson & David M. J. S. Bowman. 2015. Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013. Nature Communications (6).

Categories: Wildfire, Climate Impacts, Wildfire Variability

2015 National, International Link
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 713

Categories: climate change, science, indigenous population

2018 Global 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
Walker, R., 2012: Haida Gwaii Quake brings home the importance of Quileute relocation legislation. Indian Country Today Media Network.com. URL ↩

Categories: Relocation, Quileute, tribe, indigenous

2012 Northwest Link
Walsh, John, Donald Wuebbles, Katharine Hayhoe, James Kossin, Kenneth Kunkel, Graeme Stephens, Peter Thorne, Russell Vose, Michael Wehner, Josh Willis, David Anderson, Scott Doney, Richard Feely, Paula Hennon, Vlatcheslav Kharin, Thomas Knutson, Felix Landerer, Tim Lenton, John Kennedy, and Richard Somerville (2014) Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Jerry M. Melillo, Terese Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. Pp. 19-67. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, risk, vulnerability, assessment, sea ice

2014 United States Link
Wang, M., and J. E. Overland, 2012: A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from CMIP5 models.Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18501, doi:10.1029/2012GL052868. URL ↩

Categories: sea ice, Arctic

2012 Arctic
WAPA, 2009: Wind and Hydropower Feasibility Study, Final Report. For Section 2606 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, as amended by Section 503(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. 286 pp., Western Area Power Administration, Stanley Consultants, Inc. URL

Categories: Energy, Wind, hydropower

2009 United States
Ward, Bud. Native Americans Adapting to Changes in What-Grows-Where. Yale Climate Connections. 2016.

Categories: climate change, tribes, Tribal Climate Camp, adaptation

2016 Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Maine Link
Washington Post

Categories: climate change, disaster, EPA

2019 United States Link
WATER IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES A REPORT PREPARED BY
THE TRIBAL WATER WORKING GROUP

Categories: water quality, water quantity, ecosystems, Fisheries, Climate change, tribal water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest, United States Link
Watson, Teila. 2017. Indigenous knowledge systems can help solve the problems of climate change.

Categories: climate change, adaptation, mitigation, TEK, traditional knowledge, Indigenous rights, Indigneous science, management, conservation

2017 Australia, Global, International Link
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila. 2017. The right to be cold is key to addressing climate change says Nobel nominee.

Categories: climate change, arctic, Inuit, Inupiaq, TEK, Traditional ecological knowledge, weather patterns, polar ice sheets, temperature, adaptation, mitigation

2017 Arctic, Alaska, Canada, United States, Global, International Link
Watts, Jonathan. “We Have 12 Years to Limit Climate Change Catastrophe, Warns UN.” The Guardian, 8 Oct. 2018, www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report.

Categories: climate change, climate change impacts, Co2 emissions, drought, floods, extreme heat, disaster preparedness

2018 Global Link
Watts, Nick. “The 2018 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Shaping the Health of Nations for Centuries to Come.” The Lancet, vol. 392, no. 10163, 8 Dec. 2018, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32594-7.

Categories: health and climate change, monitoring, adaptation, planning, resilience, mitigation, public health

2018 National Link
Weatherdon, J.; Ota, Y.; Jones, M.; Close, D.; Cheung, W.2016. Projected Scenarios for Coastal First Nations’ Fisheries Catch Potential under Climate Change: Management Challenges and Opportunities. PLoS ONE. 11: e0145285.

Categories: Traditional Knowledges, Site-Specific Mitigation and Adaptation, Joint-Management, Salmon, Species Decline, Species Range Shift

2016 Northwest, International (Canada), British Columbia Link
Weaver, H. 2009. The colonial context of violence: reflections on violence in the lives of Native American women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 24: 1552-1563.

Categories: colonialism, Violence, American Indian women

2009
Webber, T., Brown, M. 2017. Environmentalists, tribe file lawsuit over Trump climate order.

Categories: climate change, emissions, carbon, clean air, air quality, human health, youth, children, future, generations,

2017 National, International, Washington D.C. Link
Weinhold, Bob. “HEALTH DISPARITIES: Climate Change and Health: A Native American Perspective.” Environmental Health Perspectives 118.2 (2010): A64–A65. Print.

Categories: tribal health, community, climate change, dislocation, food shortage

2010 National Link
Weiser, Matt. 2017. A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration. The Guardian.

Categories: trump administration, budget cuts, EPA, environmentalism, unregulated, planning, policy, legislature, white house

2017 Natioanl 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
Westman, Clinton N. 2013 Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada’s Tar Sands. Human Organization 72(2):111-120.

Categories: social impact assessment, tar sands, Anthropology of the Future, Canada, traditional land use

2013 Canada 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
Whitehorse Declaration. 2001. Whitehorse Declaration on Northern Climate Change. Proceedings of climate change in the Circumpolar North: Summit and Sustainable technology Exposition, 19–21 March 2001, Whitehorse.

Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous, knowledge

2001 Arctic Link
Whitehouse. 2016. Federal Drought Plan.

Categories: Drought, Planning, Climate Impacts, management, planning, policy, legislation, contingency, climate change, Obama archive

2016. National Link
Whitehouse.gov. 2014. , “President’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience” Available at: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/task_force_report_0.pdf

Categories: tribe, Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, resilience, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Whitt, L. (2009). Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples: The cultural politics of law and knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Categories: indigenous people, tribe, legal system, Traditional Knowledge, legal ideologies, intellectual property rights, Western Science, colonialism

2009 International Link
Why Native American Tribes Are In McCall To Plan For Climate Change. Boise State. 2016.

Categories: climate change, traditional foods, drought, salmon, water rights, wildfires

2016. United States, Northwest Link
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link