Climate Change

Reprinted from Trahant Reports, June 5, 2017.

Looks at attempts by Arctic Athabaskan Council, Gwich’in Council International, Inuit Circumpolar Council, and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) to frame Arctic climate change as a security issue.

Consists of two modules "Characteristics of Existing Public Health Climate Change Adaptation Interventions: A Scoping Review" and "Indigenous Lens on Climate Change Adaptation Planning".

Presenters describe the impact of climate change and how various solutions were being incorporated using local and traditional knowledge.

Book Review of: Unikkaaqatigiit (Putting a Human Face on Climate Change), by Scot Nickels, Chris Furgal, Mark Buell and Heather Moquin.

Reports results of workshop discussions about observed changes in the environment, impact of changes, and present and future adaptations

Reports results of workshop discussions about observed changes in the environment, impact of changes, and present and future adaptations.

Reports results of workshop discussions about observed changes in the environment, impact of changes, and present and future adaptations.

Summarizes discussions that took place at the Permanent Forum, Seventh Session, April 21 - May 2, 2008 in New York. Theme of conference was climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods.

Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Tromsø, 2012.

Explores whether fundamental differences exist between urban and rural vulnerability to climate-induced changes in the fire regime of interior Alaska.

Identifies socio-economic and health factors that are causing an increasing sensitivity to climate change.

Focuses on how extreme climate-related conditions in 2006 interacted with the food system to affect food security for traditional foods.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2011.

Researchers explore the vulnerability of the subsistence existence in the Cup’ik village of Chevak and Yup’ik village of Kotlik; findings indicate that a high level of adaptability and ingenuity exists in these communities, but raise concerns of new barriers and vulnerabilities arising from accelerating climate change and socio-cultural changes.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Regina, 2009.

Focuses on how the Inuit in Igloolik have been very adaptable to climate stress.

Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--Lund University Centre for sustainability Studies, 2012.

Narrative review of 112 documents (articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, etc.), identifies two main categories of factors affecting water vulnerability in Arctic communities: Biophysical: climate change, extreme weather, etc.; Anthropogenic: infrastructure, economics, governance, etc. Discusses the need to consider the range of factors in policy frameworks.

[Cross-Cultural Studies]Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010.

Discusses traditional ecological knowledge systems and planning for climate change.

Beginning with the observations of Indigenous Elders and land-users, authors examine and articulate the relationship between the rise and fall of muskrat populations and ice-jam flooding on the Peace River and in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), and how that has been affected by climate change.

Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--Concordia University, 2011.

Article shares findings from interviews with Swampy Cree Elders from Northern Manitoba in which they discussed their worldviews and knowledge systems. Authors argue that Indigenous knowledge offers a philosophy and practice that should serve as a model for mitigating severity of climate change.

Marine Management Thesis (MMM)--Dalhousie University, 2019.

Describes the rising role of Indigenous women in a new era of activism that is based on traditional Indigenous values and practices.

Workshops held for interpreter-translators to develop new vocabulary to describe climate change.

Examines the potential to enhance the defensive factors of Inuit youth.

Investigate the reluctance of elders to differentiate between man made influences on climate change versus natural cycles.

Examines the impact increasing temperatures are having on the incidence of infectious diseases in Alaskan wildlife and the consequences for humans.