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
Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Renewal and U.S. Settler Colonialism (August 4, 2016). The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770056

Categories: Food Sovereignty, Cultural Revitalization, Political Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Philosophy

2016 National, International Link
The Washington-British Columbia Transboundary Climate-Connectivity Project. University of Washington. 2016.

Categories: climate impacts, climate models, climate adaptation, mitigation, case study, climate model

2016 Washington state, British Colombia, National, International Link
Stephen S. Ban, Hussein M. Alidina, Thomas A. Okey, Rachel M. Gregg, and Natalie C. Ban. Identifying potential marine climate change refugia: A case study in Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystems. CAKE. 2016.

Categories: climate change, refugia, adaptation, mitigation, ocean, marine, aquaculture, climate science

2016 United States Link
Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations

Categories: Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, Governmental Procedure

2016 International 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
Blumm, M.C., 2016. Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and the Environment: Affirming the Right to Habitat Protection and Restoration. 92 Washington Law Review 1.

Categories: climate change, environmental protection, fisheries, settler colonialism, habitat restoration, human health, community action, social justice, youth justice, policy

2016 United States, Pacific Northwest, Washington state, Oregon, California Link
Whyte, Kyle, Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene (September 8, 2016). Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Forthcoming . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770047

Categories: Athropocene, Indigenous Lifeways, Indigenous Environmentalism, Philosophy, Climate Impacts

2016 National, International Link
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
Smith, Y. N. Cathay. Oral Tradition and the Kennewick Man. Yale Law Journal Forum. 2016.

Categories: archaeology, anthropology, NAGPRA, sovereignty, repatriation, social climate change, aDNA

2016 Washignton, Pacific Northwest Coast Link
Thorne, K.M., Powelson, K.W., Bui T.D., Freeman, J.Y. Takekawa, C.M., Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 2016. Assessing coastal manager science needs and disseminating science results for planning. Data Summary Report Prepared for the
California and North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA. 110 pp.

Categories: Planning, Science in Planning, Coastal Management, Natural Resource Management

2016 Pacific Ocean, Northwest, West, Alaska Link
Torben C. Rick, Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Courtney A. Hofman, Denise Breitburg, Rowan Lockwood, Gregory Henkes, Lisa Kellogg, Darrin Lowery, Mark W. Luckenbach, Roger Mann, Matthew B. Ogburn, Melissa Southworth, John Wah, James Wesson, and Anson H. Hines. 2016. Millennial-scale sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Native American oyster fishery. PNAS 113: 6568-6573.

Categories: historical baseline data, shellfish, marine fisheries, environmental management, oysters, climate change, archaeology, estuary, conservation, restoration, reefs

2016 East, Atlantic, Coastal, Chesapeake Bay Link
UCAR congressional briefing highlights flood, drought prediction: Nation poised to make major advances in "water intelligence". UCAR. 2016.

Categories: traditional knowledge, indigenous, climate science, water health, water rights, protection

2016 National Link
Goschke, Lauren. 2016. Tribes, Treaties, and the Trust Responsibility: A Call for Co-Management of Huckleberries in the Northwest, 27 Colo. Nat. Resources Energy & Envtl. L. Rev. 315, https://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/CNREELR-V27-I2-Lauren.pdf

Categories: climate change, federal law, Indian law, legislation, mitigation, management, planning, policy, natural resources, conservation, adaptation

2016 Northwest, Oregon Link
V. Savo, D. Lepofsky, J. P. Benner, K. E. Kohfeld, J. Bailey & K. Lertzman. 2016. Observations of climate change among subsistence-oriented communities around the world. Nature Climate Change 6, 462–473.

Categories: Subsistence-Oriented Communities, First Foods, Climate Science, Meta-Study

2016 International Link
Saez, Catherine. On Eve Of WIPO Traditional Knowledge Negotiations, Nations Swap Experiences. IPW. 2016.

Categories: traditional knowledge, intellectual property, protection, retention, collaboration, TEK, knowledge sovereignty

2016 International, Global Link
WRSC. 2016. Western Region 2016 Accomplishment Report.

Categories: wildfire, fire, management, climate change, prevention, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy

2016 Western United States 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
Kastalia Medrano. 2016. Can Native American Oyster Practices Rejuvenate the Chesapeake Bay? Pacific Standard.

Categories: shellfish, commercial fishing, industry, productivity, oyster, native species, restoration

2016 Chesapeake Bay, North East, Atlantic, East Coast Link
Changing Times, Changing Stories: Climate Change Perspectives Vary Notably Among Generations in Subarctic Alaska. USGS. 2016.

Categories: traditional knowledge, experiential learning, contemporary, modern, youth, elders

2016 Alaska Link
Five Tribes Benefit from Hands-On Training in Solar Operations and Maintenance. OIE. 2016.

Categories: climate change, renewable energy, solar power, infrastructure, reduce, carbon, emissions

2016 Midwest, East Coast Link
Mistry, J. Berardi, A. Bridging indigenous and scientific knowledge. Science 2016: Vol. 352, Issue 6291, pp. 1274-1275 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf1160

Categories: emissions, deforestation, climate mitigation, adaptation, sustainability, community programs, indigenous knowledge, oral traditions, shared social memory, ecosystem degradation, community initiatives, traditional knowledge, local

2016 National, International, United States Link
Native Americans Adapting to Changes in What-Grows-Where. YCC. 2016. 2016 National Link
Michael A. Crimmins, Daniel B. Ferguson, Jeremy L. Weiss, Holly Faulstich. n.d. Hopi Climate Report – An Overview to Support Drought Monitoring & Management.

Categories: Climate Adaptation, Drought Monitoring, Assessment

2016 Southwest 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
Rhoades, Hannibal. World Conservation Congress Approves Historic Measure To Protect Indigenous Sacred Lands. IC Magazine. 2016.

Categories: native rights, tribal conservation, protection, sovereignty, invasive

2016 United States, International Link
Kornfeld, Itzchak E., 2016. The Impact of Climate Change on American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Their Water Resources: A Climate Justice Perspective (August 31, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2832879

Categories: climate change, Canada, social justice, climate justice, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy

2016 Canada, United States Link
Swanson, M, Trainor, F. 2016. Current Coastal Change Research/Management Projects and Priority Information Needs in from Cook Inlet through Southeastern Alaska

Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, coastal, erosion, marine, management, research

2016 Alaska Link
Chris Frans, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Garry Clarke, Theodore J. Bohn and Matt Stumbaugh. 2016. Implications of decadal to century scale glacio-hydrological change for water resources of the Hood River Basin, OR U.S.A. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10872


Categories: Climate Change, Glacial Melting, Hood River, Hydrology, Watersheds, Climate Impacts

2016 West, Northwest Link
George G. Waldbusser, Matthew W. Gray, Burke Hales, Chris J. Langdon, Brian A. Haley, Iria Gimenez, Stephanie R. Smith, Elizabeth L. Brunner, Greg Hutchinson. Slow shell building, a possible trait for resistance to the effects of acute ocean acidification. Limnology and Oceanography, 2016; DOI: 10.1002/lno.10348

Categories: Native oysters, climate adaptation, habitat restoration, population restoration, resilient, case study, climate change, acidification

2016 Pacific Northwest, Pacific Coast, British Columbia, Vancouver, Washignton, Oregon, California Link
Sequim Gazette. 2016. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe builds logjams for salmon habitat.

Categories: salmon, migration, habitat, restoration, climate change, spawning, fishing, cultural resources

2016 Washington, Pacific Northwest Link