1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes.
While there is well-established evidence that the climate of the Earth is changing, the scarcity of instrumental data oftentimes challenges scientists’ ability to detect such impacts in remote and marginalized areas of the world or in areas with scarce data. Bridging this gap, this Handbook draws on field research among Indigenous Peoples and local communities distributed across different climatic zones and relying on different livelihood activities, to analyse their reports of and responses to climate change impacts. It includes contributions from a range of authors from different nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds, and positionalities, thus reflecting the diversity of approaches in the field. The Handbook is organised in two Parts: Part I examines the diverse ways in which climate change -alone or in interaction with other drivers of environmental change- affects Indigenous Peoples and local communities; Part II examines how Indigenous Peoples and local communities are locally adapting their responses to these impacts. Overall, this book highlights Indigenous and local knowledge systems as an untapped resource which will be vital in deepening our understanding of the effects of climate change.
The Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities will be an essential reference text for students and scholars of climate change, anthropology, environmental studies, ethnobiology and Indigenous studies.
Table of Contents
Part I: Impacts of climate change and other drivers of global change on local social-ecological systems
Introduction
David GARCIA-DEL-AMO, André B. JUNQUEIRA
1 Correspondence between local and scientific knowledge of climate change: the case of Hutsuls, Northern Romanian Carpathians
Giulia MATTALIA, Nataliya STRYAMETS, Virginia TOSCANO RIVALTA, Victoria REYES-GARCÍA
2 Local observations of climate change and impacts on livelihoods in Kamchatka, Russia
Drew GERKEY, Victoria SHARAKHMATOVA
3 Sargassum seaweed challenges from local to national level in the Caribbean: a policy cycle perspective
Patrick McCONNEY, Janice CUMBERBATCH, Catrina HINDS, Hazel A. OXENFORD, Maria PENA
4 “The weather is more erratic; it changes faster...” Local perceptions of climate change in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania
Dániel BABAI
5 Network analysis of climate change impacts reported by local communities of Sierra Nevada, Spain
David GARCIA-DEL-AMO, Laura CALVET-MIR, Graham MORTYN, Victoria REYES-GARCIA
6 Climate and environmental change perceptions. A case from rural Sicily, Italy
Vincenza FERRARA, Johan LINDBERG
7 Smallholders perceptions of climate change in a post-socialist Albania
Simona LIPPI, Massimiliano SANFILIPPO
8 Local perceptions of climate change in the context of socioeconomic and political changes in a High Andean community from the Argentine Puna
Andrea E. IZQUIERDO, Anna SCHLINGMANN
9 Settlement, way of life, and worldviews: how socio-environmental changes impact and are interpreted by artisanal fishing communities in Portugal
Yorgos STRATOUDAKIS, Patrícia GONÇALVES, Daniel OLIVEIRA, Mônica MESQUITA
10 A complex matrix: Perceptions of environmental change and its drivers by the Tsimane’, Bolivian Amazon
Victoria REYES-GARCIA, Petra BENYEI, André B. JUNQUEIRA, Tomas HUANCA, Esther CONDE
11 “Not like it used to be”: contending with the altered agricultural calendar in Andean Peru’s Colca Valley
Eric HIRSCH
12 The colonial roots of climate vulnerability. Analysing the case of the Mapuche-Pehuenche People in Southern Chile
Rosario CARMONA
Part II: Adapting to climate change impacts in the context of global change
Introduction
Anna SCHLINGMANN, Laura CALVET-MIR, Xiaoyue LI
13. Agricultural adaptation to multiple stressors in a climate change context. A case study in south-eastern Senegal
Anna PORCUNA-FERRER, Théo GUILLERMINET, Benjamin KLAPPOTH, Anna SCHLINGMANN
14 Changing terrain: evidence of climate change impacts and adaptive responses of Dagbani Indigenous communities, northern Ghana
Emmanuel M.N.A.N. ATTOH, Ruddy AFRIYIE, Gordana KRANJAC-BERISAVLJEVIC, Enoch BESSAH, Fulco LUDWIG
15 Climate change impacts on agriculture and barriers to adaptation technologies among rural farmers in Southwestern Nigeria
Ayansina AYANLADE, Isaac Ayo OLUWATIMILEHIN, Oluwatoyin S. AYANLADE
16 Climate change impacts on agriculture, adaptation and resilience: Insights from local farmers in Chiredzi, South-East Zimbabwe
Rumbidzayi CHAKAUYA, Simeon A. MATERECHERA, Obert JIRI, Ereck CHAKAUYA, Machete MACHETE
17 Counteracting land abandonment: local adaptation strategies to climate change impacts of alpine farmers in Eastern Tyrol, Austria
Anna FUCHS, Christian R VOGL, Christoph SCHUNKO
18 Social and cultural dimensions of reported climate change impacts and adaptations among farming communities in Kerman, Iran
Mariam ABAZERI
19 The role of culture in climate change adaptation: insights from two mountain regions in Kenya
Ben MWANGI, Lydia A. OLAKA, Noelia ZAFRA-CALVO, Julia A. KLEIN, Aida CUNI-SANCHEZ
20 Roads, riding stables, and highland barley: livelihood diversification as climate change adaptation among Tibetans in Shangri-La, China
Zhuo CHEN
21 Faith, reciprocity, and balance: Inner Mongolian Ovoo offering ritual and its contribution to climate change adaptation
Ouerle CHAO, Xiaoyue LI, Victoria REYES-GARCÍA
22 Local indicators, adaptation actions, and resilience efforts for a warming climate in North Greenland
Leneisja JUNGSBERG, Nicola WENDT-LUCAS
23 How can co-management support adaptation to climate change? The case of co-existing fisheries from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada
Eranga GALAPPATHTHI
24 Climate change adaptation in Fiji: Local adaptation strategies to enhance national policy
Priyatma SINGH, Daniela SCHULMAN, Dhrishna CHARAN, Victoria REYES-GARCÍA, Anna SCHLINGMANN, Ashneel A. SINGH, Kelera RAILOA
Postscript
Index
Biography
Victoria Reyes-García is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
