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 ascending Year Geography Website
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Washington Post

Categories: climate change, disaster, EPA

2019 United States Link
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 713

Categories: climate change, science, indigenous population

2018 Global 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
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
Voice of the Sea TV. YouTube, YouTube, 13 June 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZW5E_zLzHs&t=245s

Categories: climate change, climate adaptation, research, forest health, fresh water supply, community health, wildlife, El Nino

2018 Hawaii Link
Voggesser G, Lynn K, Daigle J, Lake FK, Ranco D (2013) Cultural Impacts to Tribes from Climate Change Influences on Forests. Climatic Change. DOI # 10.1007/s10584-013-0733-4.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Forest resources, Adaptation, Management, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Visser, Nick. 2017. Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Agency Website. Again.

Categories: climate change, Trump administration, white house, anti-science, climate change denial,

2017 National Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten; Lynn, Kathy. 2013. Exploring the role of traditional ecological knowledge in climate change initiatives. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-879. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p.

Categories: traditional knowledges, climate change, tribe, Indigenous

2013 United States Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten and Kathy Lynn. 2015. Strengthening the Federal-Tribal Relationship: A Report on Monitoring Consultation under the Northwest Forest Plan. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 20 Year Reports. FS/R6/PNW/2015/0005.

Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry

2015 Northwest Link
Vinyeta K, Whyte KP, Lynn K. 2015. Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-923. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Categories: Indigenous peoples, climate change vulnerability, resilience, gender, identity

2015 National 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