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
Chapin, F. S., Trainor, S. F., Huntington, O., Lovecraft, A. L., Zavaleta, E., Natcher, D. C., ... & Naylor, R. L. (2008). Increasing wildfire in Alaska's boreal forest: pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. BioScience, 58(6), 531-540.

Categories: Alaska, global change, scale, Wildfire, wicked problem, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska
McClintock, S. E., 2009: Ch. 17: Coastal and riverine erosion challenges: Alaskan villages’ sustainability. Climate Change And Arctic Sustainable Development: Scientific, Social, Cultural And Educational Challenges,, UNESCO, 120.

Categories: Alaska, Erosion, Sustainability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic, Alaska Link
Alaskan village votes to relocate over global warming. CNN. 2016.

Categories: Alaska, Climate change, coastal erosion, sea level, tradition,

2016 Pacific Northwest, Arctic, Alaska, United States Link
Sakakibara, C. (2008). “Our Home Is Drowning”: Iñupiat Storytelling And Climate Change In Point Hope, Alaska”. Geographical Review, 98(4), 456-475.

Categories: Alaska, Climate change, coastal erosion, Point Hope, storytelling, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska
2016 Chugach Regional Resources Commission Climate Change Workshop Outcomes. CRRC. 2016.

Categories: Alaska, Climate change, access to resources, seasonal gathering, climate model, vulnerability, tribal planning, Indigenous sciences

2016 National, Alaska Link
ITEP, 2011: Tribal Profiles. Alaska - Athabascan Region. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/tribes/ak_athabascan.asp↩

Categories: Alaska, Athabascan Region, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Ford, J. D., Willox, A. C., Chatwood, S., Furgal, C., Harper, S., Mauro, I., & Pearce, T. (2014). Adapting to the effects of climate change on Inuit health. American journal of public health, 104(S3), e9-e17.

Categories: Alaska Natives, Health, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2014 Arctic, Alaska Link
Rivkin, I., Trimble, J., Lopez, E., Johnson, S., Orr, E., Allen, A. 2013. Disseminating research in rural Yup’ik communities: challenges and ethical considerations in moving from discovery to intervention development. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 72: 409-416.

Categories: Alaska Native, stress, coping, reporting research results, community-based participatory research (CBPR), research ethics, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
GAO, 2009: Alaska Native Villages: Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened By Flooding and Erosion. Government Accountability Office Report GAO-09-551. 53 pp., U.S. Government Accountability Office. URL ↩

Categories: Alaska Native, Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic, Alaska
ANTHC, 2012: Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. URL ↩

Categories: Alaska Native, Health, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2012 Alaska, Arctic
ITEP. 2013. Fact Sheet- Black Carbon Alaska. EPA.

Categories: Alaska Native Villages, Black Carbon, emissions, Climate Mitigation, human health, visibility, factsheet

2013 Alaska, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Global, Arctic, United States Link
National Tribal Air Association. [N.d.]. Analysis of the EPA's Final Clean Power Plan, NTAA Comments and Final Rule Outcomes.

Categories: Air Quality, EPA, Clean Power, Fracking, Nuclear Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass,

2015 National Link
United States, Congress, National Agricultural Statistics Service. “2012 Census of Agriculture; American Indian Reservations.” 2012 Census of Agriculture; American Indian Reservations, vol. 2, ser. 5, USDA, 2014. 5.

Categories: agriculture, reservations, farming, ranching, data, research

2014 Reservations Link
Adhikari, A., & Hansen, A. J. (2018). Land use change and habitat fragmentation of wildland ecosystems of the North Central United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 177, 196-216. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.014

Categories: agriculture, conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem services, land use

2018 North Central U.S. Link
David, Aaron T.; Asarian, J. Eli; Lake, Frank K. 2018. Wildfire smoke cools summer river and stream water temperatures. Water Resources Research. 54. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022964.

Categories: aerosol optical thickness, Klamath Basin, rivers, water temperature, wildfire smoke, solar radiation, air temperatures, water temperatures

2018 Oregon, California, Klamath Basin Link
Pautasso M., Döring T.F., Garbelotto M., Pellis l. and Jeger, M.J. (2012) Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Diseases—Opinions and Trends. European Journal of Plant Pathology, p.1-19. DOI 10.1007/s10658-012-9936-1.

Categories: Adaptive ecosystem management Biotic interactions Landscape pathology Phytophthora ramorum Plant disease epidemiology Tree fungal pathogens

2012 Northwest Link
James D. Ford , Graham McDowell , Jamal Shirley , Mike Pitre , Richard Siewierski , William Gough , Frank Duerden , Tristan Pearce , Peter Adams & Sara Statham (2013) The Dynamic Multiscale Nature of Climate Change Vulnerability: An Inuit Harvesting Example, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103:5, 1193-1211, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.776880

Categories: adaptive capacity, Climate change, harvesting, human dimensions, Inuit, Iqaluit, methodology, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2013 Alaska Link
Yes! magazine

Categories: adaptation, tribes, climate change, Washington

2019 Washinton, Pacific Northwest Link
Kaufman, L., 2011: Seeing trends, coalition works to help a river adapt. The New York Times. URL ↩

Categories: Adaptation, salmon, fish health, Nisqually River, snowpack, flooding, stream flow

2011 Northwest Link
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014a A Multiple Knowledge Approach for Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons Learned from Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Journal of Political Ecology 21:61-82.

Categories: Adaptation, Relocation, coastal Lousiana, Multiple knowledge approach, tribe, indigenous

2014 Southeast Link

Categories: adaptation, planning, resource, climate change

National, Northwest Link
Lynn, Kathy. A Tribal Planning Framework -- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies by Sector. 2013.

Categories: Adaptation, Planning

2013 National Link
Fisichelli, N., Schuurman, G., Hoffman, C. 2015. Is ‘Resilience’ Maladaptive? Towards an Accurate Lexicon for Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Management:1-6.

Categories: Adaptation, Madaptation, Resilience

2015 National, International 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
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
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
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
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
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
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