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.

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Victoria Reyes-García is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

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Introduction: Understanding climate change impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A global perspective from local studies

Victoria REYES-GARCIA, Santiago ÁLVAREZ-FERNANDEZ, Petra BENYEI, Laura CALVET-MIR, Mouna CHAMBON, David GARCIA-DEL-AMO, André B. JUNQUEIRA, Xiaoyue LI, Vincent PORCHER, Anna PORCUNA-FERRER, Anna SCHLINGMANN, Ramin SOLEYMANI and Adrien TOFIGHI-NIAKI

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, Peter 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. Reports 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 Strengthening participatory governance to adapt and other sociocultural responses to climate change impacts 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

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