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
Federal Emergency Management Agency (2011) The National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.fema.gov/fema/csb.shtm 2011
Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, 2011: Draft Water Resource Development Strategy for the Navajo Nation. 135 pp., Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, Fort Defiance, AZ. URL ↩

Categories: Navajo Nation, Water Resources, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Barker, Joanne. 2011. Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, cultural authenticity, Native oppression, decolonization and self-determination, Native movements and cultural revitalization, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States Link
Ferguson, D. B., C. Alvord, M. Crimmins, H. M. Redsteer, M. Hayes, C. McNutt, R. Pulwarty, and M. Svoboda, 2011:Drought Preparedness for Tribes in the Four Corners Region. Report from April 2010 Workshop. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest. 42 pp., The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), The Institute of the Environment, The University of Arizona. URL ↩

Categories: assessment, Four Corners Region, Drought, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
NTGBC, 2011: National Tribal Green Building Codes Summit Statement. 2 pp., Tribal Green Building Codes Workgroup. URL ↩

Categories: Sustainability, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States
Bender, S., E. Burke, D. Chahim, L. Eshbach, L. L. Gordon, F. Kaplan, K. McCusker, H. Palevsky, M. Rowell, D. Battisti, J. Barcelos, J. Marlow, and S. Stzern, 2011: Initial Assessment of Lead Agency Candidates to Support Alaska Native Villages Requiring Relocation to Survive Climate Harms. 82 pp., University of Washington Climate Justice Seminar Spring 2011, Three Degrees Project, Seattle, WA. URL ↩

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

2011 Alaska, Arctic Link
Glicksman, R. L., C. O’Neill, Y. Huang, W. L. Andreen, R. K. Craig, V. B. Flatt, W. Funk, D. D. Goble, A. Kaswan, and R. R. M. Verchick, 2011: Climate Change and the Puget Sound: Building the Legal Framework for Adaptation. Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-18. Center For Progressive Reform. URL ↩

Categories: Puget Sound, Climate change, adaptationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Olp S (2011) Crow flooding: More than 200 Crow Reservation homes damaged, destroyed from flooding. Billings Gazette. June 15, 2011. Billings, MT

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2011
Bethel, Matthew B., Lynn F. Brien, Emily J. Danielson, Shirley B. Laska, John P.
Troutman, William M. Boshart, Marco J. Giardino, and Maurice A. Phillips. 2011. Blending Geospatial Technology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge to
Enhance Restoration Decision-Support Processes in Coastal Louisiana. CHART
Publications. Paper 23:555 -571

Categories: Restoration, GIS, remote sensing, traditional ecological knowledge, Coastal Louisiana, land loss, marsh health, community vulnerability, Grand Bayou, ecosystem users, Coastal Management, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast Link
Harris, S., and Harper, B., (2011) A Method for Tribal Environmental Justice Analysis. Vol. 4, No.4, Environmental Justice, p. 231-237.

Categories: Environmental Justice, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), traditional lifeways, Risk Assessment, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States Link
Bronen, R., 2011: Climate-induced community relocations: Creating an adaptive governance framework based in human rights doctrine. New York University Review Law & Social Change, 35, 357-408. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, coastal retreat, climigration, tribe, indigenous

2011 Global Link
Heyes, Scott A. 2011. Cracks in the knowledge: sea ice terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1): 69–90.

Categories: Keywords:
sea ice, Inuit knowledge, knowledge transmission, generations, Inuktitut, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic Link
Brubaker MY, Bell JN, Berner JE, Warren JA (2011) Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. Int J Circumpol Heal 70: 266-273.

Categories: community-scale assessment, observation-based data, climate health impacts, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic Link
Hovelsrud, Grete, Krupnik, Igor, and Jeremy L. White. 2011. Human-based observing systems. In Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges. International Polar Year, 2007–2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, Robin, Cutler, Paul, Hik, David, Lopéz-Martinéz, Jeronimo, Rachold, Volker, Summerheyes, Colin, and Eduard Sarukhanian, eds. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, pp. 435-456.

Categories: Antarctic, Arctic, International Polar Year, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic Link
Brubaker, M. Y., J. N. Bell, J. E. Berner, and J. A. Warren, 2011: Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70, doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17820.↩

Categories: indigenous, Arctic, Climate change, Alaska Natives, health assessment, tribe

2011 Alaska. Arctic 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
Tribal Water Working Group (University of New Mexico), 2012: Water in Indian Country:

Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012
Buckley, G.L. and A. Allen. 2011. Stories about mountaintop removal in the Appalachian coalfields. In M. Morrone and G.L. Buckley (eds.) Mountains of injustice: social and environmental justice in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Pp. 161-180.

Categories: Appalachia, Mountaintop removal

2011
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
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
Burkett M(2011) The nation ex-situ: on climate change, deterritorialized nationhood, and the post-climate era. Clim Law 2(3):345–374

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, climate migration, international law

2011 International
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
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
Couvillion, Brady A., John A. Barras, Gregory D. Steyer, William Sleavin, Michelle Fischer, Holly Beck, Nadine Trahan, Brad Griffin, and David Heckman. 2011 Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana from 1932 to 2010: U.S. Geological Survey. Scientific Investigations Map 3164. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3164/downloads/SIM3164_Pamphlet.pdf

Categories: land area change

2011 Southeast 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
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
Crate, Susan A. 2011. Climate and Culture: Anthropology in the Era of Contemporary Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 40:173–194.

Categories: Climate change, perceptions, adaptation and resilience, research approaches, anthropological role(s), climate ethnography, tribe, indigenous

2011 Global Link
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913.

Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164.

Categories: mourning, vulnerability

2012 Link
DOE, 2011: Tribal Energy Program: Financial Assistance and Project Management. 49 pp., U.S. Department of Energy. URL ↩

Categories: Tribal energy program, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States