5 lessons from ancient civilizations for keeping homes cool in hot, dry climates
By: Adriana Zuniga-Teran
The Conversation
August 30, 2024
Key Words: Sumerians, ancient Eygptians, ancient Puebloans, Muslim caliphates, Mayans, Teotihuacans, adobe, mulqaf, rainwater harvesting, electricity
https://theconversation.com/5-lessons-from-ancient-civilizations-for-keeping-homes-cool-in-hot-dry-climates-237741?ms=sat_email&utm_campaign=sat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=aswemail&emci=f7dcbf05-be6b-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&emdi=dae1896d-c16b-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&ceid=12870
The author uses examples from five countries of how homes were built architecturally, considering location, and with certain materials to enhance coolness for those residing there. She advocates for consideration of these technologies in the building of modern structures.
Leaning into Indigenous knowledge on climate change
By: Chris Baraniuk
Knowledgeable Magazine
10/11/2023
Key Words: anthropogenic climate change, Indigenous data collection, traditional harvesting, traditional hunting, United States, United Tribes of Michigan, Anishinaabe, Great Lakes, Australia, Tiwi Islands, Zimbabwe, Mbire, Canada, Inuit
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/leaning-into-indigenous-knowledge-on-climate-change
This article explores the detailed environmental data collection and observations of Indigenous people around the world. Indigenous knowledge paints a fuller, more detailed picture of the impacts of climate change that can make climate science more holistic. Examples include Anishinaabe people's witness of the increase in ticks and changes in vegetation in the Great Lakes region, health impacts of coastal erosion on the Tiwi community in Australia, Mbire elders’ observations about seasonal weather changes and the impacts on fruit quality in Zimbabwe, and unpredictable weather in Canada which make it difficult for Inuit communities to pass on traditional skills to younger generations.
Indigenous youth must be at the forefront of climate diplomacy
By: Temitope Olawunmi Sogbanmu, Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, Lahcen El Youssfi, Fridah Dermmillah Obare, Seira Duncan, Marion Hicks, Khadeejah Ibraheem Bello, Faris Ridzuan & Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu
Nature
August 4, 2023
Key words: Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change, water, land management, Indigenous knowledge, khettara system, Amazigh people, Sámi people, reindeer, Sitka Tribe, shellfish, Shackan, Xwisten and Yunesit’in First Nations, cultural burning, Ainu people
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02480-1?ms=sat_email&utm_campaign=sat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=aswemail&emci=bc115d7a-c836-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=1b140ed2-cd36-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=12870
This article presents examples of Indigenous knowledge at work throughout the world, especially in the face of climate change. The authors speak to the youth being the ones to carry forward these practices.
Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch
By: Spoorthy Raman
Mongabay
June 1, 2022
Key words: North America, Australia, Indigenous communities, Indigenous aquaculture, traditional oyster and clam farming, sustainability, commercial fisheries, overharvesting
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/indigenous-oyster-fisheries-were-fundamentally-different-qa-with-researcher-marco-hatch/
Dr. Marco Hatch, marine ecologist and Samish Indian Nation member, discusses the Indigenous aquaculture practices that sustainably farmed oyster and clam estuaries for thousands of years. As one of the authors of this new study, he speaks on the importance of learning from Indigenous farming practices, his work, and his experience as an Indigenous researcher.
By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean
By: Claudia Geib
Mongabay
January 14, 2022
Keywords: Native Hawaiians, Haida Nation, Heiltsuk Nation, Eyak Tribe, Hawai’i, Haida Gwaii, Parks Canada, Alaska, limu kohu (Asparagopsis taxiformis), sugar kelp (Laminaria saccharina), feather boa kelp (Egregia menziesii), ribbon kelp (Alaria marginata), bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana), kelp forests, seaweed, seaweed farming, Indigenous knowledge, climate health, sustainability, traditional diets, biocultural restoration
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/by-cultivating-seaweed-indigenous-communities-restore-connection-to-the-ocean/
In Hawai’i, and Coastal Canada and Alaska, Native and Indigenous peoples work to restore degraded seaweed species that support traditional diets. This effort is cross-generational and supports food sovereignty, sustainability, and climate resilience. Universities have partnered with Nations and Tribes to help.
Fostering Inclusivity and Respect: Engagement With Indigenous Peoples in the Management and Presentation of Protected Areas in North America
North American Intergovernmental Committee On Cooperation For Wilderness and Protected Areas Conservation
2022
Key words: Canada, Mexico, United States, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, boreal forests, clam gardens, criollo maize, water, fire, fish, condors, youth
https://www.nps.gov/commonspot/dashboard/index.html#mode=edit&url=/subjects/tek/international-across-borders.htm
This report highlights ten case studies of agencies work with Indigenous peoples with Indigenous knowledge on public lands. Case studies include Background, Outcomes, Lessons Learned, Smumary, and contacts for more information.
Indigenous knowledge the cornerstone of new tsunami modelling for Vancouver Island’s northwest coast
CBC News
October 10, 2021
Key Words: Canada, Vancouver Island, Nuchatlaht First Nation, Kyuquot Checlesaht First Nation, Cascadia subduction zone, Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone, tsunami, Indigenous Knowledge, oral history
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tsunami-modelling-results-1.6204268
Over the past year, a collaborative project was in the works to develop a tsunami-modelling warning system for the northwest coast of British Columbia. Indigenous knowledge proved crucial to creating computer modelling for the tsunami variations that this coast is exposed to. The First Nations involved with this project will collaborate further in language translations and public communication.
Rooted in Culture and Nature: Jamaican Root Tonics in New York City
By: Makalé Faber Cullen, Ina Vandebroek
New York Botanical Garden
September 16, 2021
Key Words: Jaimaica (Xaymaca), New Yrok, the Arawaks, ethnobotany, bioculture, traditional knowledge, traditional knowledge holders, root tonics, resilience, diaspora, migration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppt5gHRbaY0
Dr. Vandebroek introduces her study in Jamaica on ethnobotany. Important traditional knowledge holders are stewards of their bioculturally diverse environment and are deeply aware of their surroundings. Jamaican explanations and relationships with their environment informs important sociocultural dimensions that would be lacking from a purely external, Western science perspective. Makalé Cullen then discusses her research of Jamaican root tonics in New York City and focuses her presentation on the people, places, plants, and root tonics, connecting the human and plant diaspora. What happens when people and plants move into a new context? And how does a new Pan-Caribbean village affect the range of plant materials that’s used to build Jamaican root tonic in the diaspora of New York? Makalé searches for a deeper well-being and how root tonics are connected to healing.
Restoring Culture and Seed Knowledge through Native Plant Restoration
By: Sharilyn Johnston, Sateiokwen Bucktooth and Lee Sprague
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, University of Minnesota
June 23, 2021
Key words: Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Potawatomi Nation, United States, Canada, Michigan, New York, ethnobotany, sacred seeds, seed sovereignty, traditional ecological knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBa0gYbhSTE
This is the fifth in the Great Lakes TEK Speaker Series. Sateiokwen presents on her experience in the Akwesasne Cultural Restoration Program, her internship, her business, and her work in community and youth engagement. Then Sharilyn discusses the Aamjiwnaang’s Native Plant Nursery purpose of educating and sharing TEK from generation-to-generation. Finally, Lee talks about seed sovereignty of Mnomen and the issues that threaten it, including oil spills, climate change, and geese, and the work he does to protect and restore Mnomen beds.
Tribally-driven Bison Restoration Comes to the Glacier/Waterton World Heritage Site
By: Stephen Morris, Jeff Mow, Helen and Sheldon Carlson, Cristina Mormorunni, Salman Rasheed
US/ICOMOS
February 25, 2021
Key words: Blackfoot Confederacy (Blackfeet Nation, Kainai Nation, Piikani Nation, and Siksika Nation), Canada, United States, Wildlife Conservation Society Glacier National Park, Glacier/Waterton Heritage Site, Bison, conservation, landscape perspectives
https://usicomos.org/past-webinars/past-world-heritage-webinar-bison-restoration-at-glacier-waterton/
This webinar discusses Blackfoot Confederacy Iinnii Initiative. After opening remarks from Stephen Morris and Jeff Mow, Helen discusses how the initiative began and that dialogue within the community was key. Sheldon talks about his experience with the Buffalo program and taking care of bison. Cristina presents on the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) history of collaboration and partnership with the Blackfoot Confederacy on the Iinnii Iniative. Salman talks about Waterton-Glacier’s participation in this initiative and recent implementation activities enacted in Canada for the reintroduction of bison.
Supporting Indigenous adaptation in a changing climate: Insights from the Sto` :lo- Research and Resource Management Centre (British Columbia) and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation (Arizona)
By: Viviane H. Gauer, David M. Schaepe, John R. Welch
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9: (1)
2021
Keywords: Indigenous adaptation; Adaptive capacity; climate change; perpetuation of Indigenous culture
https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/9/1/00164/117299/Supporting-Indigenous-adaptation-in-a-changing
In this study, researchers engaged with two Indigenous community organizations, mainly through semi-structured interviews, to evaluate existing adaptive capacity in the face of climate change and identify actions that would further support adaptation. The two case studies involved the SRRMC, an organization that provides professional and technical assistance with heritage matters to the Sto`:lo Nation in British Columbia, and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit established by the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona to repurpose Fort Apache and advance Apache sovereignty. The researchers found that individuals with both organizations recognized changes in their local environments that can be traced to climate change. While neither organization is dedicated to climate adaptation, because of the relationship between land and culture, both are actively improving the adaptive capacity of their communities through the programs and policies that support the perpetuation of Indigenous culture and knowledge.
Toward a Science of Archaeo-ecology: Placing Humans into Food webs with Dr. Stefani Crabtree (webinar)
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
April 23, 2020
Key words: Ancestral Puebloans, Martu, Chaco Canyon, United States, Western Desert, Australia, food webs, humans, ecosystems, model, resilience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjUPRddQr4
In this webinar, Dr. Crabtree speaks about creating food webs to determine human impact on an ecosystem. She uses her work at Chaco Canyon, United States, and the Western Desert of Australia to elucidate her points. She proposes this methodology to explore managing sustainable ecosystems today.
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
By: Krystyna Swiderska, PhD Candidate in Biocultural Heritage, Coventry University
The Conversation
Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi Target 18
https://theconversation.com/protecting-indigenous-cultures-is-crucial-for-saving-the-worlds-biodiversity-123716
The author has studied biocultural heritage in Peru's Potato Park and China's Stone Village from which she developed a model that she hopes will be transferrable to other countries. Her findings indicate a strong correlation between Indigenous cultures and biodiversity. She believes that other countries can protect their cultural heritage and maintain biodiversity.
Respecting our Traditional Science and Ways of Knowing
By: Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López , Danielle DeLuca, Alma Patricia Soto Sánchez
Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine; Issue 42-4
November 2018
Key words: climate change, western science, traditional ways of life, farming, food sovereignty, revitalization
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/respecting-our-traditional-science-and-ways-knowing-0
The article focuses on key discussions that indigenous community members and experts from around the world had during a conference in Mexico. Climate change is impacting abilities to maintain traditional ways of life, but it is considered important to explore intersections with western science, revitalize traditional practices and update these for the changing ecosystems. Indigenous peoples are working on producing their own food, preserving seeds, revitalizing horticultural practices, recovering organic agricultural methods, and protecting their rights.
Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
By: Jim Robbins
YaleEnvironment360
April 26, 2018
Keywords: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Alaska, Arctic, Australia, Mesoamerica, Inuit, Skot Sami, Aborignals, Maya, fire management, ethnosphere, biodiversity redistribution and loss, climate change
https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-knowledge-what-ecologists-are-learning-from-indigenous-people
Researchers turn to Indigenous communities and traditional ecological knowledge to better understand natural world processes in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change. Inuit make note of beaver habits and how it connects to beluga whales. Aboriginals practice fire-control management to reduce uncontrolled fires and increase biodiversity. The active garden around Maya forest village houses are astonishingly biodiverse and integrated with the forest ecosystem.
Anticipating Climatic Variability: The Potential of Ecological Calendars
By: Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Morgan L. Ruelle, Cyrus Samimi, Antonio Trabucco, Jianchu Xu
Human Ecology, Volume 46, Issue 2, pp. 249-257
April 2018
Key words: climate change, ecological calendars, phenology, Pamir Mountains, Central Asia, agropastoralists, participatory action research, co-production of knowledge, western science
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10745-018-9970-5
Indigenous communities often relied on signs in the natural world for the timing of events or actions. This knowledge can be utilized with western science data to track and adapt to climate change.
Webinar: Online Forum on Traditional Knowledge Under the Convention of Biological Diversity: Webinar Recording and Presentations
Presented by: NBSAP Forum
November 30, 2017
This webinar provides an overview of the work of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), and the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network (IWBN) to advance Aichi Biodiversity Targets 18 (on traditional knowledge) and 16 (on Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization). The recording for the English webinar is available here: https://youtu.be/MIY-vP8hh0M Below three links to the presentations: John Scott- CBD: http://ow.ly/y2m530h0MhJ Santiago Carrizosa- UNDP: http://ow.ly/erIY30h0Meh Lucy Mulenkei- IWBN: http://ow.ly/jSob30h0MjR
100 Women: The scientists championing their indigenous ancestors' discoveries
By: Mary Halton
BBC News
7 November 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41887971
Indigenous peoples around the world have understood the stars, tides and local ecosystems for hundreds of years but experts say their insights have often been overlooked. Now some female scientists are striving to highlight their achievements and collect the scientific heritage of their communities before it disappears.
Whitebark pine restoration and conservation through a cultural lens: Incorporating tribal values into spatial ecological assessments of whitebark pine forests across the Crown of the Continent
American Forests
October 2017
Key words: whitebark pine, British Columbia, Alberta, Blackfoot Confederacy, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, United States, Canada, Montana
https://www.americanforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Incorporating-Tribal-Cultural-Values-into-WBP-Ecological-Analyses-in-the-Crown_Oct-2017.pdf
In early 2016, a committee including tribal, university, governmental, industrial, and conservation organization representatives came together to consider ways to conserve and restore five needle pine species of the Crown region in the U.S. and Canada. The trees’ seeds are enjoyed by humans and also help to support the ecosystem that sustains animals which Indigenous people value and who play a role in spiritual practices. It is important to include youth in the conservation efforts to pass on cultural and ecological Traditional Knowledge.
Indigenous Knowledge Helps Scientists to Assess Climate Change
By: David Bressan
Forbes
July 5, 2017
Key words: climate change, indigenous people, stars, clouds, glaciers, weather, Alps, tundra, mountains
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/07/05/indigenous-knowledge-helps-scientists-to-assess-climate-change/#4fb698c25527
The article explores various changes that indigenous peoples have noticed that have helped Western scientists to understand climatic conditions, weather patterns, and plant growth.
Tapping Traditional Wisdom to Cope with Climate Change
By: Nala Rogers, Staff Writer
Inside Science
March 28, 2017
https://www.insidescience.org/news/tapping-traditional-wisdom-cope-climate-change
From the mountains of Tajikistan to Standing Rock in the Dakotas, scientists are collaborating with indigenous people to study climate change and predict the future.
Traditional Use and Management of NTFPs in Kangchenjunga Landscape: Implications for Conservation and Livelihoods
By: Yadav Uprety, Ram C. Poudel, Janita Gurung, Nakul Chettri, & Ram P. Chaudhary
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 12:19
2016
Key words: Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Trade, Potential Species, NTFP Policy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855762/
Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs), an important provisioning ecosystem services, are recognized for their contribution in rural livelihoods and forest conservation. Effective management through sustainable harvesting and market driven commercialization are two contrasting aspects that are bringing challenges in development of NTFPs sector. Authors analyzed use patterns, trends, and challenges in traditional use and management of NTFPs in the southern slope of Kangchenjunga Landscape, Eastern Himalaya and discussed potential implications for conservation and livelihoods.
Climate and Politics Could Test Arctic People
McGill University for Original Study
Posted by: Katherine Gombay-McGill
Futurity, Earth and Environment
January 8, 2016
http://www.futurity.org/arctic-people-climate-change-1087532-2/
The adaptability of peoples living in the artic could be their benefit when dealing with climate change, although politics and financial resources could impact this ability.
Keeping Our Traditions Alive: Compendium of Best Practices in Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
The Arctic Council Secretariat
2015
https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/handle/11374/435
This compendium reflects the Arctic Council's efforts to promote traditional and cultural practices of indigenous peoples in education, language, community building and sustainable resource management, among other things. It is a collection of programs and initiatives identified as demonstrating best practices in promoting the cultural heritage and the importance of traditional ways of life among Arctic indigenous peoples.
Indigenous People and Invasive Species: Perceptions, management, challenges and uses
By: Ens, E., Fisher, J. and Costello, O. (Editors)
2015
http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/pdfs/ens_et_al_2015_indigenous_people_and_invasive_species_iucn_cem_ecosystems_and_invasiv.pdf
This global community booklet came out of the 2014 World Parks Congress, Indigenous People and Invasive Species Symposium. It includes various examples of indigenous methods of invasive species management within their geographic and environmental contexts, and explains why they continue to be highly viable and successful natural resource management practices.
Lack of knowledge or loss of knowledge? Traditional ecological knowledge of population dynamics of threatened plant species in East-Central Europe
By: Éva Biró, Dániel Babai, Judit Bódis, and Zsolt Molnár
Journal for Nature Conservation, 22:318-325
2014
Key words: Hungary, Romania, flowers, conservation, Csángó
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2014.02.006
The authors interviewed indigenous populations found in Hungary and Romania to determine if those populations were experiencing a lack of traditional ecological knowledge being past down by older generations or if that traditional knowledge has already been lost by the community. The reason the authors wish to understand that is to establish if there are possible conservation methods preserved in the traditional ecological knowledge of the Csángó.
Biocultural Conservation of Marine Ecosystems: Examples from New Zealand and Canada
By: Janet Stephenson, Fikret Berkes, Nancy J. Turner, & Jonathon Dick
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 12(2):257-265
2014
Key words: Biocultural Conservation, Social-Ecological Systems, Indigenous Knowledge, Fisheries, Biodiversity
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261215972_Biocultural_conservation_of_marine_ecosystems_Examples_from_New_Zealand_and_Canada
Place-specific knowledge systems, combined with hands-on resource use and a long-term commitment to sustaining resources and ecosystems, are vitally important in restoring the planet to health. This approach is already an integral part of the resource use and management systems of many Indigenous and tribal peoples worldwide, whose knowledge and practices reflect a long history of co-evolving and interdependent social-ecological systems. Negotiated settlements of Indigenous rights issues in New Zealand and Canada have resulted in new opportunities for the expression and application of Indigenous management approaches, including in coastal fisheries.
Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Agroforestry
By: Colleen Rossier & Frank Lake
USDA National Agroforestry Center, AF Note-44
2014
Key words: Agroforestry, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ecosystem Management
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/47452
Communities around the world have practiced diverse and evolving forms of agroforestry for centuries. While both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners have developed agroforestry practices of great value, in this publication, the authors focus on the role of indigenous, traditional ecological knowledge.
Reinterpreting change in traditional ecological knowledge
By: Erik Fomez-Baggethun and Victoria Reyes-Garcia
Human Ecology, 41(4):10
August 2014
Keywords: Market Economy Market Integration Conservation Policy Traditional Ecological Knowledge Adaptive Practice, Bolivia, Spain
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827740/
Focusing on the dynamic nature of TEK, this study analyzes how TEK systems adapt to new environmental, social or economic conditions. Two empirical case studies are reviewed: the Tsimane’ in the Bolivian Amazon and farmers in the Donana region southwestern Spain. Among other findings, researchers identified a positive association between individual levels of TEK and nutritional status and offspring’s health for the Tsimane’. In Spain, despite decades of modernization, TEK still plays an important role in resource management. The authors identify three main drivers of the loss of TEK: market integration, conservation policies and acculturation.
DECLARATION of the Responsible Ministers of the Polar Bear Range States
Moscow, Russian Federation
December 4, 2013
http://ec.gc.ca/nature/default.asp?lang=En&n=33E9D90B-1
Acknowledges the range of nation states as stewards for polar bears and mentions a role for TEK in doing so.
Introduction: The Growing Importance of Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge
By: Ronald L. Trosper & John A. Parrotta
In Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity. J. A Parrotta & R. L. Trosper (eds.) World Forest Series Vol. 12, Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
2012
Key words: Biocultural Diversity, Forest Policy, Forest Management, Indigenous Peoples, Knowledge Systems
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/47879
The knowledge, innovations, and practices of local and indigenous communities have supported their forest-based livelihoods for countless generations. The role of traditional knowledge—and the bio-cultural diversity it sustains—is increasingly recognized as important by decision makers, conservation and development organizations, and the scientific community.
Chapter 5: North America in Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems, and Biocultural Diversity
By: Ronald L. Trosper, Fred Clark, Patrica Gerez-Fernandez, Frank Lake, Deborah McGregor, Charles M. Peters, Silvia Purata, Teresa Ryan, Alan Thomson, Alan E. Watson, & Stephen Wyatt
J. A Parrotta & R. L. Trosper (eds.) World Forest Series Vol. 12, Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
2012
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/54875
The colonial history of North America presents a contrast between Mexico and the two predominantly English-speaking countries, the United States and Canada. In Mexico, indigenous and other local communities own considerable forested lands, a consequence of the Mexican Revolution of the early twentieth century. In the United States, forest land is now primarily in private or federal hands, while in Canada forest land is primarily managed by the provinces. In all three countries, traditional knowledge had little effect upon forestry until the end of the twentieth century.
Weathering Uncertainty, Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
By: Douglas Nakashima, Kirsty Galloway McLean, Hans Thulstrup, Ameyali Ramos Castillo and Jennifer Rubis
Paris, UNESCO, and Darwin, UNU, 1Ó0 pp.
ISBN 978-92-3-001068-3 (UNESCO), ISBN 978-0-9807084-8-6 (UNU)
2012
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000216613.locale=en
Indigenous Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Community-Based Ecocultural Restoration during Rapid Climate Disruption: Lessons for Western Restorationists
By: Dennis Martinez
A paper presented at the 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration
2011
Key words: Climate Change, Adaptations, Sustainability, Resilience, Indigenous Peoples
https://www.scribd.com/document/76322289/Dennis-Martinez-2011
Indigenous peoples, comprising only 5% of the world’s population but occupying 20% of the earth’s surface and 80% of its biological hotspots, are important to ecosystems far out of proportion to their numbers. They have a good record of adaptation to a variety of climatic events and other changes over millennia, and are still adapting in such vulnerable biomes as semi-arid areas, mountains, sea islands, tropical forests and savannas, the arctic, and boreal forests—yet bear the least responsibility for climate disruption. But adaptation to climate destabilization may be the greatest challenge yet.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
By: Mark Dowie
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780262516006
2009
https://web.mnstate.edu/robertsb/307/Articles/Conservation_Refugees_Intro.pdf
Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story.
Report of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change- 2009
By: K. Galloway McLean, A. Ramos-Castillo, T. Gross, S. Johnson, M. Vierros, & R. Noa
United Nations University- Traditional Knowledge Initiative
2009
https://www.cakex.org/documents/report-indigenous-peoples-global-summit-climate-change
The Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change was held in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2009. The Summit enabled indigenous peoples from all regions of the globe to exchange their knowledge and experience in adapting to the impacts of climate change, and to develop key messages and recommendations to be articulated to the world at the fifteenth Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. This report outlines the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples from around the world.
Silviculture for non-timber forest product management: challenges and opportunities for sustainable forest management
By: Krishna H. Gautam, Teiji Watanabe
The Forestry Chronicle
2002
Key words: ethnosilviculture, livelihoods, non-timber forest product, sustainable forestry, Canada, India, Nepal, partnerships
http://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/abs/10.5558/tfc78830-6
Non-timber forest products are of vital importance for many indigenous cultures in Canada, India, and Nepal. This article explores the way that these populations could be valuable partners to land managers and the methods to facilitate that partnership.
Ignore Fishers’ Knowledge and Miss the Boat
By: Robert E. Johannes, Milton M. R. Freeman, & Richard J. Hamilton
Fish and Fisheries, 1(3):257-271
2000
Key words: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Fisheries Management, Research Methodology
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227697559_Ignore_fishers'_knowledge_and_miss_the_boat
Authors describe five examples of how, by ignoring fishers’ ecological knowledge (FEK), marine researchers and resource managers may put fishery resources at risk, or unnecessarily compromise the welfare of resource users. Fishers can provide critical information on such things as inter-annual, seasonal, lunar, diel, tide-related and habitat-related differences in behavior and abundance of target species, and on how these influence fishing strategies.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Beluga Whales
By: Henry P. Huntington
Cultural Survival
September 1998
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/traditional-ecological-knowledge-and-beluga-whales
The article discusses study results of beluga whales and indigenous communities in the Artic.
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