Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World

Miguel Sioui

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780128245385
• eBook ISBN: 9780128245392
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World presents a series of global case studies that examine how different Indigenous groups are dealing with various water management challenges and finding creative and culturally specific ways of developing solutions to these challenges. With contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics, scientists, and water management experts, this volume provides an overview of key water management challenges specific to Indigenous peoples, proposes possible policy solutions both at the international and national levels, and outlines culturally relevant tools for assessing vulnerability and building capacity. In recent decades, global climate change (particularly drought) has brought about additional water management challenges, especially in drought-prone regions where increasing average temperatures and diminishing precipitation are leading to water crises. Because their livelihoods are often dependent on the land and water, Indigenous groups native to those regions have direct insights into the localized impacts of global environmental change, and are increasingly developing their own adaptation and mitigation strategies and solutions based on local Indigenous knowledge (IK). Many Indigenous groups around the globe are also faced with mounting pressure from extractive industries like mining and forestry, which further threaten their water resources. The various cases presented in Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World provide much-needed insights into the particular issues faced by Indigenous peoples in preserving their water resources, as well as actionable information that can inform future scientific research and policymaking aimed at developing more integrated, region-specific, and culturally relevant solutions to these critical challenges.   - Includes diverse case studies from around the world - Provides cutting-edge perspectives about Indigenous peoples' water management issues and IK-based solutions - Presents maps for most case studies along with a summary box to conclude each chapter

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Table of Contents
• Front Matter
• Copyright
• About the editor
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction: The need for Indigenous knowledge-based water and drought policy in a changing world
• Chapter 2: Striving toward reconciliation through the co-creation of water research
• Chapter 3: Reasserting Traditional Knowledge across a fragmented governance landscape: The Mackenzie River Basin
• Chapter 4: Haudenosaunee women's water law: Reclaiming the sacred
• Chapter 5: “We had to Jump Over, but We’re Still Here”: Nimiipúu spatio-temporalities of water and fish in times of climate change
• Chapter 6: The evolving relationship between Maya communities and subterranean waters in the Yucatan Peninsula
• Chapter 7: Rights to water and water's rights: Plural water governances in mining contexts of Colombia and Peru
• Chapter 8: From the muddy banks of the Watu: The Krenak and the Rio Doce mining disaster in Brazil
• Chapter 9: “Guides of water”: Indigenous water justice and pastoral management beyond adaptation to climate change
• Chapter 10: Contested waters, extractivisms, and territories: Indigenous people in Chile and the neoliberal crisis
• Chapter 11: Indigenous Knowledge Systems for the management of the Barotse Flood Plain in Zambia and their implications for policy and practice in the developing world
• Chapter 12: Indigenous knowledge perspectives on water management and its challenges in South Africa
• Chapter 13: Hydro-social cohesion in Iranian local communities
• Chapter 14: Rapua ngā tohu (seeking the signs)—Indigenous knowledge-informed climate adaptation
• Chapter 15: Indigenous knowledge, mercury, and a remote Russian Indigenous river basin—Ponoi River
• Chapter 16: Indigenous community engagement at Scotty Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada: Experiences and lessons learned
• Chapter 17: Lessons learned and concluding reflections on indigenous relationships with water and our Eatenonha (Earth Mother)
• Index