Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

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
McNeeley, S.M., Even, T.L., Gioia, J.B., Knapp, C.N. and Beeton, T.A., 2017. Expanding Vulnerability Assessment for Public Lands: The Social Complement to Ecological Approaches. Climate Risk Management. Categories: Climate change; Public lands; Land-based livelihoods; Social vulnerability; Vulnerability assessment; Adaptation	2017	National	Link
Whyte, K. P. (2018). Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1–2), 224–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618777621 Categories: climate crises, indigenous peoples, indigenous perspectives, Anthropocene, Holocene, colonial violence	2018		Link
Government Accountability Office. 2015. A National System Could Help Federal, State, Local, and Private Sector Decision Makers Use Climate Information. Categories: Climate Data, Review	2015	National	Link
Anderegg, W. R., Klein, T., Bartlett, M., Sack, L., Pellegrini, A. F., Choat, B., & Jansen, S. (2016). Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201525678. Categories: Climate Extremes, Drought, Forest Ecology, Climate Impacts	2016	National, International	Link
Shonkoff, S.B., Morello-Frosch, R., Pastor, M., and Sadd, J. (2011) The Climate Gap: environmental health and equity implications of climate change and mitigation politics in California- A Review of the Literature: Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0310-7, 19p. Categories: Climate Gap, Environmental Health, California	2011	California
United Nations. n.d. Backgrounder: Climate change and indigenous peoples. Categories: Climate Impacts on Indigenous Peoples, Policy, Adaptation, Mitigation	2007	International	Link
Bronen, Robin. 2016. Arctic Sirens Wail: Where Are the First Responders? Huffpost Impact. Categories: Climate Impacts, Adaptation	2016	National, International, Arctic, Alaska	Link
McNutt, Deborah (ed). 2009. Northwest Tribes: Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change. Brief prepared for the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute. Olympia, WA: Evergreen State College. Categories: Climate Impacts, Adaptation, Tribal Nations, Mitigation	2009	National, Washington, Northwest, International (Canada)	Link
The Washington-British Columbia Transboundary Climate-Connectivity Project. University of Washington. 2016. Categories: climate impacts, climate models, climate adaptation, mitigation, case study, climate model	2016	Washington state, British Colombia, National, International	Link
K.R. Jones, J.E.M. Watson, H.P. Possingham, C.J. Klein. 2016. Incorporating climate change into spatial conservation prioritisation: A review. Biological Conservation, Volume 194, 121–130. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.12.008 Categories: Climate Impacts, Conservation, Climate Modeling, Ecological Restoration	2016	National, International	Link
Zhiliang Zhu and A. David McGuire (eds). 2016. Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska Categories: Climate Impacts, Methane, Climate Mitigation, Wildfire, Permafrost Thaw, Climate Assessment	2016	Alaska, Northwest	Link
Darryl Fears. 2016. Scientists say climate change is threatening the lifeblood of Canada’s native people. Washington Post. Categories: Climate Impacts, Species Decline, Salmon	2016.	Alaska, National, International (Canada)	Link
M. D. Flannigan, B. M. Wotton, G. A. Marshall, W. J. de Groot, J. Johnston, N. Jurko, A. S. Cantin. 2016. Fuel moisture sensitivity to temperature and precipitation: climate change implications. Climate Change, Volume 134, Issue 1, pp 59-71. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1521-0 Categories: Climate impacts, Wildfire	2016	International (Canada)	Link
Nathan Gilles. 2016. A World Aflame. Oregon Quarterly. Categories: Climate Impacts, Wildfire, Tribal Adaptation	2016	Northwest	Link
Vickery, Jamie and Lori Hunter. 2015. Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research? Society and Natural Resources Journal. Categories: Climate justice, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2015	Global	Link
Whyte, K.P 2014. “A Concern About Shifting Interactions between Indigenous and Nonindigenous Parties in U.S. Climate Adaptation Contexts.” Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 15 (2/3): 114-133. Categories: Climate justice, Environmental Justice, treaty rights, indigenous peoples, tribal jurisdiction, Climate Change Adaptation, indigenous resilience, indigenous sustainability, tribe, indigenous	2014	US, Canada	Link
Chunxi Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Axel Lauer, and Kevin Hamilton, 2012: Configuration and Evaluation of the WRF Model for the Study of Hawaiian Regional Climate. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 3259–3277. Categories: Climate Modeling, Hawaiian Climate Projections	2012	Hawaii, Pacific	Link
Oliver Timm and Henry F. Diaz, 2009: Synoptic-Statistical Approach to Regional Downscaling of IPCC Twenty-First-Century Climate Projections: Seasonal Rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands. J. Climate, 22, 4261–4280. Categories:* Climate Modeling, Hawaiian Regional Climate Model	2009	Hawaii, Pacific	Link
Hallum, Mark. 2016. Climate Change May Have Big Impact on American Indian Tribes Out West: The Inquisitr News Categories: Climate Resilience, Climate Change Vulnerability, Drought & Agriculture.	2016	Western United States.	Link
Gombay-McGill, Katherine. 2016. Climate and Politics Could Test Arctic People: Futurity. Categories: Climate Resilience, Climate Vulnerability, Environmental Science, Social Stability, Future Generations.	2016	Alaska, Arctic, Canada.	Link
Zielinski, Sarah. 2016. How Will Native Americans in the Southwest Adapt to Serious Impacts of Climate Change?: Smithsonian.com Categories: Climate Resilience, Tribes, Indigenous Survival, Climate Vulnerability, Inundation, Permafrost, Erosion, Relocation.	2016	Southwest, United States, Louisiana.	Link
Kathy Lynn. Fostering Tribal Engagement in Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. 2012. Categories: Climate Science Center, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, tribal engagement, climate initiatives	2012	National, United States	Link
Mack, M. C., S. M. Bret-Harte, T. N. Hollingsworth, R. R. Jandt, E. A. G. Schuur, G. R. Shaver, and D. L. Verbyla, 2011:Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire. Nature, 475, 489-492, doi:10.1038/nature10283. URL ↩ Categories: Climate science Earth science Ecology Environmental science	2011	Arctic	Link
AMS. 2016. State of the Climate in 2015. Categories: climate science, climate change, climate assessment, monitoring	2016	National, Global, International	Link
Young people facing climate change. Native America Calling. 2016. Categories: climate science, climate change, fire hazard, food security, weather patterns	2016	National, International	Link
Categories: climate science, climate change, tools, national, youth		National, United States	Link
Jeff Smith. 2016. Rising Voices melds indigenous, western science perspectives. UCAR AtmosNews. Categories: Climate Science, Collaboration, Climate Impacts	2016	National, International	Link
Historical baselines and the future of shell calcification for a foundation species in a changing ocean. University of Chicago. 2016. Categories: climate science, fisheries, ocean acidification, Pleistocene era, shellfish, shell midden	2016	National, Coastal Ecosystems	Link
Improving collaboration between Native Americans and climate scientists. 2015. MSU Today. Categories: Climate Science, Research Ethics, Native Climate Science	2015	Great Lakes, East	Link
Bronen, R. and F. Stuart Chapin III, 2013. Adaptive governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations in Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Adaptive governance, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2013	Alaska

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.