ABSTRACT
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
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part I|190 pages
Impacts of climate change and other drivers of global change on local social-ecological systems
chapter |9 pages
Introduction to Part I: Impacts of climate and global change on local social-ecological systems
chapter 1|15 pages
Correspondence between local and scientific knowledge of climate change
chapter 2|16 pages
Local observations of climate change and impacts on livelihoods in Kamchatka, Russia
chapter 3|13 pages
Sargassum seaweed challenges from local to national level in the Caribbean
chapter 4|21 pages
“The weather is more erratic; it changes faster…” local perceptions of climate change in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania
chapter 5|14 pages
Network analysis of climate change impacts reported by local communities of Sierra Nevada, Spain
chapter 9|13 pages
Settlement, way of life and worldviews
chapter 10|15 pages
A complex matrix. Reports of environmental change and its drivers by the Tsimane', Bolivian Amazon
chapter 11|17 pages
“Not like it used to be”
chapter 12|13 pages
The colonial roots of climate vulnerability. Analysing the case of the Mapuche-Pehuenche People in Southern Chile
part II|204 pages
Adapting to climate change impacts in the context of global change