Old Ways for New Days

Indigenous Survival and Agency in Climate Changed Times

Melissa Nursey-Bray, Robert Palmer, Ann Marie Chischilly, Phil Rist, Lun Yin

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783030978259
• eBook ISBN: 9783030978266
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Business
• Index: Law

This Open Access book provides a critical reflection into how indigenous cultures are attempting to adapt to climate change. Through detailed first-hand accounts, the book describes the unique challenges facing indigenous peoples in the context of climate change adaptation, governance, communication strategies, and institutional pressures. The book shows how current climate change terminologies and communication strategies often perpetuate the marginalisation of indigenous peoples and suggests that new approaches that prioritise Indigenous voices, agency and survival are required.

The book first introduces readers to Indigenous peoples and their struggles related to climate change, describing the impacts of climate change on their everyday lives and the adaptation strategies currently undertaken to address them. These strategies are then detailed through case studies which focus on how Indigenous knowledge and practices have been used to respond to and cope withclimate change in a variety of environments, including urban settings. The book discusses specific governance challenges facing Indigenous peoples, and presents new methods for engagement that will bridge existing communication gaps to ensure Indigenous peoples are central to the implementation of climate change adaptation measures. This book is intended for an audience of Indigenous peoples, adaptation practitioners, academics, students, policy makers and government workers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introducing Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
• 2. Responding to Climate Change: Why Does It Matter? The Impacts of Climate Change
• 3. Indigenous Adaptation – Not Passive Victims
• 4. Tribal Capacity Building and Adaptation Planning: The United States
• 5. Ethnic Minorities, Traditional Livelihoods and Climate Change in China
• 6. Do Not Forget the Dreaming: Communicating Climate Change and Adaptation, Insights from Australia
• 7. Old Ways for New Days
• Back Matter