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
Smith, L. M., Wade, C. M., Case, J. L., Harwell, L. C., Straub, K. R., & Summers, J. K. (2014). Evaluating the Transferability of a US Human Well-Being Index (HWBI) Framework to Native American Populations. Social Indicators Research, 1-26.

Categories: wellbeing, index, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States
Therrell, M. D., and M. J. Trotter, 2011: Waniyetu Wówapi: Native American records of weather and climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 583-592, doi:10.1175/2011bams3146.1. URL ↩

Categories: weather records, tribe, indigenous

2011 Great Plains
US Forest Service

Categories: watershed restoration, memorandum of understanding, fish, wildlife, culturally relevant places, stewardship

2019 National 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
Montag, J.M. K.Swan, K. Jenni. T. Nieman, J. Hatten, M.Mesa, D. Graves, F. Voss, M. Mastin, J. Hardiman, A. Maule. (2014) "Climate change and Yakama Nation tribal-well being" Climatic Change.

Categories: Water, well-being, community health framework, tribe, indigenous, Yakama Nation

2014 Northwest Link
Feifel, K. (2010). Stream Temperature Monitoring Network for Cook Inlet Salmon Streams [Case study on a project of Cook Inletkeeper]. Product of EcoAdapt's State of Adaptation Program. Retrieved from CAKE: www.cakex.org/case-studies/stream-temperature-monitoring-network-cook-in... (Last updated March 2010)

Categories: water temperature, stream monitoring, Cook Inlet Watershed, salmon, planning, adaptation

2010, updated in 2019 Cook Inlet, Alaska Link
Meshel, Tamar. “Environmental Justice in the United States: The Human Right to Water.” Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, July 2018, pp. 264–297., digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1819/8WJELP264.pdf.

Categories: water rights, water access, water quality, sanitation, human rights, indigenous communities

2018 National, International Link
Cozzetto, K, Chief, K., Dittmer, K., Brubaker, M., Gough, R., Souza, K., Ettawageshik, F., Wotkyns, S., Opitz-Stapleton, S., Duren, S., Chavan, P., 2013: Climate change impacts on the water resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US. Climatic Change, 120(3 special issue): 569-584. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0852-y

Categories: water rights, tribal sovereignty, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Chief, K., Meadow, A. and Whyte, K., 2016. Engaging Southwestern Tribes in Sustainable Water Resources Topics and Management. Water, 8(8), p.350.

Categories: water resources, management, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, water rights, mining claims

2016 Nationa, 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
ITEP. 2015. Climate Change Mitigation and Solid Waste: Reducing greenhouse gases through municipal solid waste management.

Categories: waste management, climate mitigation, climate adaptation, emissions, greenhouse gas, solid waste, tribal health,

2015 United States Link
Laidler, G. J., J. D. Ford, W. A. Gough, T. Ikummaq, A. S. Gagnon, S. Kowal, K. Qrunnut, and C. Irngaut, 2009: Travelling and hunting in a changing Arctic: Assessing Inuit vulnerability to sea ice change in Igloolik, Nunavut. Climatic Change, 94, 363-397, doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9512-z.↩

Categories: vulnerability, sea ice change, Traditional Knowledge, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2009 Canada, Arctic Link
Lazrus, Heather. 2012. Sea Change: Island Communities and Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 285-301.

Categories: vulnerability, resilience, Adaptation, Migration, justice, sea of islands, Climate-induced displacement, Island communities, tribe, indigenous

2012 Global Link
Brooks, N., Adger, W. N., & Kelly, P. M. (2005). The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation. Global environmental change, 15(2), 151-163.

Categories: vulnerability, adaptive capacity, Indicators, National-level, risk, mortality, Delphi survey, Governance, Literacy, Health

2005 Global
Gautam, M. R., K. Chief, and W. J. Smith, Jr., 2013: Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Climatic Change, 120, 585-599, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0737-0. URL ↩

Categories: vulnerability, adaptative capacity, tribe, indigenous

2013 Pyramid Lake Paiute Link
Marino, Elizabeth. 2015. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change. University of Alaska Press.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2015 Alaska, Arctic Link
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014c. Facing the Rising Tide: Co-occurring Disasters, Displacement, and Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, American University.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, impacts (livelihoods, Health, cultural), Relocation, Coastal Louisiana, tribe, indigenous

2014 Southeast Link
Ford, James D., Smit, Barry, and Johanna Wandel. 2006. Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic Bay, Canada. Global Environmental Change 16(2):145–160.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, adaptive capacity, Arctic, Inuit, Climate change, environmental change, Communities, Climatic risks, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic, Canada
Button, Gregory V., and Kristina Peterson. 2009 Participatory Action Research: Community Partnership with Social and Physical Scientists. In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall, eds. Pp. 327-340. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Categories: Vulnerability to disasters, Community Empowerment, planning for disaster preparedness, response and mitigation.

2009 Link
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2010. Fact Sheet: Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina.

Categories: Violence against women, Disasters, Hurricane Katrina

2010 Southeast
A. Bakun, B.A. Black, S.J. Bograd, M. García-Reyes, A.J. Miller, R.R. Rykaczewski, W.J. Sydeman. 2015. Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems. Current Climate Change Reports. 1: 85-93.

Categories: Upwelling, Climate Impacts, Coastal Upwelling

2015 Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean Link
n.a. 2017. Prof. Rebecca Tsosie: Current Issues in Intellectual Property Rights to Cultural Resources. Native American Rights Fund.

Categories: United Nations, UNDRIP, Indigenous rights, intellectual property, TEK, cultural practices, traditions, legislation, policy

2017 International, Global, United States Link
Duyck, S. 2017. US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change. Climate Home.

Categories: UN, climate change, adaptation, mitigation, children, youth, social justice, future, Trump administration

2017 National Link
Newcomb, S. T., 2008: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Fulcrum Publishing, 216 pp. URL ↩

Categories: U.S. federal Indian law, Indian policy, cognitive theory, Race relations, Religion, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
soffen, K., Lu, D., 2017. All the things Trump cuts in his budget. Washington Post.

Categories: trump administration, white house, planning, policy, management, congress, house of representatives, legislature, governmental agencies, budget cuts

2017 National
Trahant, M. 2017. Saving Budget Fights for Another Day: Congress has a spending plan for this year that includes more money for most Native programs through September.

Categories: Trump Administration, policy, planning, budget, agencies, tribal assistance, short-term

2017 National, United States Link
Page, Samantha. 2017. Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay. ThinkProgress.

Categories: Trump Administration, climate change, tribes, legislation, policy, methane, BLM, emissions, standards

2017 United States Link
Harvey, C. 2017. This climate lawsuit could change everything. No wonder the Trump administration doesn’t want it going to trial. The Washington Post.

Categories: trump administration, climate change, lawsuit, OCT, federal government, supreme court, mitigation, emissions, standards, legislation

2017 National Link
Trump Administration. 2017. Fiscal Year 2018 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017.

Categories: Trump administration, budget, resource, allocation, financial assistance, budget cuts, programming

2017 National 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