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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Farmington Daily Times

Categories: renewable energy, development, Navajo

2019 Navajo Nation 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
Blomberg

Categories: keystone, pipeline, NEPA, EIA, fossil fuels

2019 U.S. 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
Native News Online

Categories: government, tribal, relations

2019 U.S. Link
Vasan, Thamanna, and David M. Kling. “What Can the Pacific Northwest Oyster Aquaculture Industry Do about Ocean Acidification?” Agriculture and Climate Change Research in the Pacific Northwest, Agriculture Climate Network, 25 Apr. 2019, https://www.agclimate.net/2019/04/25/what-can-the-pacific-northwest-oyster-aquaculture-industry-do-about-ocean-acidification/.

Categories: ocean acidification, oysters, shellfish, industry, aquaculture

2019 Pacific Northwest Coast Link
Indian Country Today

Categories: wildfires, mitigation, Apache, BIA

2019 U.S. Link
Erika S. Rubenson and Julian D. Olden "Growth and Recruitment of Nonnative Smallmouth Bass along the Upstream Edge of Its Riverine Distribution," Northwest Science 93(1), 1-15, (31 May 2019). https://doi.org/10.3955/046.093.0102

Categories: river systems, smallmouth bass, fish growth and survival, non-native species, salmon habitat, Northwest, management

2019 Northwest Link
Yes! magazine

Categories: adaptation, tribes, climate change, Washington

2019 Washinton, Pacific Northwest Link
Ryan E Emanuel; Water in the Lumbee World: A River and Its People in a Time of Change, Environmental History, Volume 24, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 25–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy129

Categories: landscapes, indigenous communities, culture and history, environmental justice

2019 North Carolina 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
A. Park Williams John T. Abatzoglou Alexander Gershunov Janin Guzman‐Morales Daniel A. Bishop Jennifer K. Balch Dennis P. Lettenmaier. July 2019. "Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California". https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001210

Categories: climate change, wildfires, warming temperatures

2019 California Link
Jolly, W.M.; Freeborn, P.H.; Page, W.G.; Butler, B.W. Severe Fire Danger Index: A Forecastable Metric to Inform Firefighter and Community Wildfire Risk Management. Fire 2019, 2, 47.

Categories: fire danger, firefighter safety, community fire risk, forecast, sever fire danger index

2019 Link
Missoulian

Categories: Flathead River, landscapes, Federal, land management, administration

2019 Flathead River, United States Link
Rebecca Tsosie, Tribal Data Governance and Informational Privacy: Constructing "Indigenous Data Sovereignty", 80 Mont. L. Rev. 229
(2019).

Categories: data sovereignty, data collection, traditional knowledge, data protection, information, privacy

2019 Link
Washington Post

Categories: climate change, disaster, EPA

2019 United States Link
Jaime O. Yazzie et al. Diné kinship as a framework for conserving native tree species in climate change, Ecological Applications (2019).

Categories: climate change, ecosystems, indigenous knowledge, climate modeling, forest management, ecosystem services

2019 Link