Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and climate change in Latin America – Ten scalable experiences of intercultural collaboration

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration

A Story of “Rising Voices” and Intercultural Collaboration

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Julie Maldonado ◽  
Heather Lazrus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Bear Witness

Abstract Until recently, the voices and wisdom of Indigenous peoples have been largely excluded from climate change science, decision making, and governance. Encouragingly, a shift has emerged in the last few decades. Today, a number of scientists realize the critical importance and value of Indigenous peoples' wisdom, observations, insights, and knowledge. This shift in awareness is visible in initiatives from climate assessments to university- and agency-based projects. Yet, there are few venues devoted to facilitating this work and to creating an intercultural collaborative process based on courage, respect, justice, equality, and reciprocity that addresses our changing climate. Provisioning that missing space is precisely what the Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences program sets out to do. This is a story about the development of an intercultural network and how the two co-authors—a public and an environmental anthropologist—came to bear witness, to know, and were called to act.

INTERCONNECTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMPONENTS FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
N. N. ILYSHEVA ◽  
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E. V. KARANINA ◽  
G. P. LEDKOV ◽  
E. V. BALDESKU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
The North ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the problem of achieving sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the components of sustainable development, taking into account the involvement of indigenous peoples in nature conservation. Climate change makes achieving sustainable development more difficult. Indigenous peoples are the first to feel the effects of climate change and play an important role in the environmental monitoring of their places of residence. The natural environment is the basis of life for indigenous peoples, and biological resources are the main source of food security. In the future, the importance of bioresources will increase, which is why economic development cannot be considered independently. It is assumed that the components of resilience are interrelated and influence each other. To identify this relationship, a model for the correlation of sustainable development components was developed. The model is based on the methods of correlation analysis and allows to determine the tightness of the relationship between economic development and its ecological footprint in the face of climate change. The correlation model was tested on the statistical materials of state reports on the environmental situation in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The approbation revealed a strong positive relationship between two components of sustainable development of the region: economy and ecology.

How Can Latin America Help the World to Cope with Climate Change?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Galiani ◽  
Manuel Puente ◽  
Federico Weinschelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The World

Defining interpretative communities towards climate change: Examining growers of common bean in Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Barnes ◽  
Hernan Botero ◽  
Lisset Pérez ◽  
David Ríos-Segura ◽  
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Common Bean

Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110224
Author(s):  
Danielle Emma Johnson ◽  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Indigenous Development

Although Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and concerns have not always been accommodated in climate change adaptation research and practice, a burgeoning literature is helping to reframe and decolonise climate adaptation in line with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. In this review, we bring together climate adaptation, decolonising and intersectional scholarship to chart the progress that has been made in better analysing and responding to climate change in Indigenous contexts. We identify a wealth of literature helping to decolonise climate adaptation scholarship and praxis by attending to colonial and neo-colonial injustices implicated in Indigenous peoples’ climate vulnerability, taking seriously Indigenous peoples’ relational ontologies, and promoting adaptation that draws on Indigenous capacities and aspirations for self-determination and cultural continuity. Despite calls to interrogate heterogenous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities, the decolonising climate and adaptation scholarship has made limited advances in this area. We examine the small body of research that takes an intersectional approach to climate adaptation and explores how the multiple subjectivities and identities that Indigenous peoples occupy produce unique vulnerabilities, capacities and encounters with adaptation policy. We suggest the field might be expanded by drawing on related studies from Indigenous development, natural resource management, conservation, feminism, health and food sovereignty. Greater engagement with intersectionality works to drive innovation in decolonising climate adaptation scholarship and practice. It can mitigate the risk of maladaptation, avoid entrenchment of inequitable power dynamics, and ensures that even the most marginal groups within Indigenous communities benefit from adaptation policies and programmes.

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