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 Sort ascending	Geography	Website
Shanley, C.S. and Albert, D.M., 2014. Climate change sensitivity index for Pacific salmon habitat in southeast Alaska. PloS one, 9(8), p.e104799. Categories: Southeast Alaska, first foods, salmon, hydrology, resilience, conservation, adaptation, climate projections	2014	Alaska	Link
Lennert, Mitdlarak. 2014. Greenland’s legal framework for non-renewable resource exploitation: The challenges of creating transparent public consultation processes. In Joan Nymand Larsen and Gail Fondahl, eds. Arctic Human Development Report. Regional Processes and Global Linkages. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 276–280. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, indigenous knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	Arctic	Link
DOI. 2014. Meeting Materials, March 11-13, 2014. Southeast Alaska and Southcentral Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council. Categories: Southeast Alaska, sea otter, climate change, customary and traditional use, fisheries, food security, subsistence, commercial, Stikine River, management, policy, permit, tribal concerns, Chugach National Forest, Tongass National Forest, vulnerability assessment, regional action plan	2014	Alaska	Link
Luber, G., K. Knowlton, J. Balbus, H. Frumkin, M. Hayden, J. Hess, M. McGeehin, N. Sheats, L. Backer, C. B. Beard, K. L. Ebi, E. Maibach, R. S. Ostfeld, C. Wiedinmyer, E. Zielinski-Gutiérrez, and L. Ziska, 2014: Ch. 9: Human Health. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 220-256. doi:10.7930/J0PN93H5. Categories: Climate change, Human Health, health impacts	2014	United States	Link
Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans. EPA. 2014. Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, climate planning, climate science, water, EPA	2014	National	Link
NOAA, 2014. Status Review of Southeast Alaska Herring (Clupea pallasi): Threats Evaluation and Extinction Risk Analysis. National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region. Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, herring, pacific herring, fisheries, habitat, spawning, stream influence	2014	Alaska	Link
Maldonado, J. K., Colombi, B., & Pandya, R. (2014). Climate change and indigenous peoples in the United States: Impacts, experiences and actions. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05266-3 Categories: Climate change, indigenous, tribe	2014	United States	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
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
Maslin, Mark. 2014. Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Categories: climate change science, Adaptation	2014	Global	Link
Maynard, N. G., (Ed.) 2014. Native Peoples - Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II - Final Report:An Indigenous Response to Climate Change. November 18-21, 2009 Categories: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Climate change, Place, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
McDowell, G., E. Stephenson, and J. Ford. 2014. Adaptation to climate change in glaciated mountain regions. Climatic Change 126(1):77–91. Categories: human dimension, Climate change, Adaptation	2014	Global	Link
McNeeley S.M., Lazrus H. (2014) The Cultural Theory of Risk for Climate Change Adaptation. Wea. Climate Soc., 6, 506–519. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00027.1 Categories: North America, Pacific Ocean, Planning, policy, Risk Assessment, Societal impacts, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
Melillo, Jerry M., T. C. Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe. "Climate change impacts in the United States: the third national climate assessment." US Global change research program 841 (2014). Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, risk, vulnerability, assessment, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
ITEP. 2014. Climate Change and Water Resources: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: climate adaptation. climate mitigation, water health, infrastructure, sea level, acidification, drought, flood, water access, fact sheet	2014	United States	Link
Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. 2014 Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Categories: Changing Climate, Water Resources, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, Forests, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Human Health, Energy, Water, and Land Use, Urban Systems and Infrastructure, indigenous peoples, land use, Rural Communities, Biogeochemical Cycles, Northeast Southeast and Caribbean, Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, Northwest, Alaska, Hawai‘i and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, Oceans and Marine Resources, Coastal Zones, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Whitehouse.gov. 2014. , “President’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience” Available at: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/task_force_report_0.pdf Categories: tribe, Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, resilience, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Bennett, N. J., Kadfak, A. & Dearden, P. (2014). The Future We Want: Taking Action in Ban Talae Nok for the Community, the Environment and Climate Change. Victoria, BC: Marine Protected Areas Research Group, University of Victoria. 22 p. Categories: Climate change, indigenous peoples, Ban Talae Nok, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
Mimura, N., R.S. Pulwarty, D.M. Duc, I. Elshinnawy, M.H. Redsteer, H.Q. Huang, J.N. Nkem, and R.A. Sanchez and Rodriguez, 2014: Adaptation planning and implementation. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 869-898. Categories: Climate change, Adaptation planning and implementation	2014	International	Link
Bennett, T. M. B., N. G. Maynard, P. Cochran, R. Gough, K. Lynn, J. Maldonado, G. Voggesser, S. Wotkyns, and K. Cozzetto, 2014: Ch. 12: Indigenous Peoples, Lands, and Resources. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 297- 317. doi:10.7930/J09G5JR1. Categories: Climate change, indigenous, Adaptation, tribe, forests resources, Fires, and traditional Food, Water Resources, sea ice, Permafrost Thaw, Relocation	2014	United States	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
Swinomish Indian Tribe. 2014. Correlation and Climate Sensitivity of Human Health and Environmental Indicators in the Salish Sea. USGS. Categories: climate change, fisheries, shelfish, aquaculture, management, conservation, collaboration, international	2014	Canada, United States, British Columbia, Washington state, Puget Sound	Link
Bronen, R. 2014. Community Relocations: The Arctic and South Pacific in Martin, S., Weerasinghe, S. and Taylor, A (editors) Humanitarian Crises and Migration Routledge: New York Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Migration and Diaspora, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
Willox, CA.; Landman, K.; Harper, S.L.; Edge, V.L.; Houle, K.; Ford, J. D. 2013. The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada. Emotion, Space and Society. 6:14-24. Categories: Emotion, Climate change, environmental change, Health and well-being, Inuit, tribe, indigenous	2013	Arctic
Doyle J (2013) Exploring effects of climate change on Northern Plains American Indian health. Climatic Change 3: 643-655. Categories: Climate change, American Indian Health, Northern Plains, tribe, indigenous	2013		Link
Egeland G, Harrison G (2013) Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples’ health through traditional food systems and self-determination. In: Kuhnlein H., Erasmus B., Spigelski D., Burlingame B. (Eds.) 2013. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being interventions and policies for healthy communities. Categories: Health, Traditional foods, self determination, tribe, indigenous	2013	Global	Link
Fugate C. 2013. Changing laws for the better - recognizing tribal sovereignty. FEMA. Available at: https://www.fema.gov/blog/2013-01-31/changing-laws-better-recognizing-tribal-sovereignty Categories: Sovereignty, FEMA, Disasters, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States	Link
Driscoll, D.L., Sunbury, T., Johnston, J. and Renes, S., 2013. Initial findings from the implementation of a community-based sentinel surveillance system to assess the health effects of climate change in Alaska. International journal of circumpolar health, 72(1), p.21405. Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, Alaska Native villages, climate change surveillance, observations, policy, community, community activism, community participation, social change, climate science, water security, food security, changed social activities, reduced activities	2013	Alaska	Link
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
Gearheard Fox, Shari, Kielsen Holm, Lene, Huntington, Henry P., Leavitt, Joe M., Mahoney, Andrew R., Opie, Margaret, Oshima, Toku and Joelie Sanguya, eds. 2013. The Meaning of Ice. People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities. Hanover, NH: International Polar Institute Press. Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous	2013	Arctic	Link

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.