TY - JOUR
T1 - Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
T2 - Impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - García-Del-Amo, David
AU - Porcuna-Ferre, Anna
AU - Schlingmann, Anna
AU - Abazeri, Mariam
AU - Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N.
AU - da Cunha Ávila, Julia Vieira
AU - Ayanlade, Ayansina
AU - Babai, Daniel
AU - Benyei, Petra
AU - Calvet-Mir, Laura
AU - Carmona, Rosario
AU - Caviedes, Julián
AU - Chah, Jane
AU - Chakauya, Rumbidzayi
AU - Cuní-Sanchez, Aida
AU - Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
AU - Galappaththi, Eranga K.
AU - Gerkey, Drew
AU - Graham, Sonia
AU - Guillerminet, Théo
AU - Huanca, Tomás
AU - Tomás Ibarra, José
AU - Junqueira, André B.
AU - Li, Xiaoyue
AU - López-Maldonado, Yolanda
AU - Mattalia, Giulia
AU - Samakov, Aibek
AU - Schunko, Christoph
AU - Seidler, Reinmar
AU - Sharakhmatova, Victoria
AU - Singh, Priyatma
AU - Tofighi-Niaki, Adrien
AU - Torrents-Ticó, Miquel
AU - Consortium, LICCI
PY - 2024/1/4
Y1 - 2024/1/4
N2 - Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and needs receive inadequate attention in climate research and policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative research consortium arising from the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports of environmental change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded and multi-causal understandings of change, largely focused on processes and elements that are relevant to local livelihoods and cultures. These reports demonstrate that the impacts of climate change intersect with and exacerbate historical effects of socioeconomic and political marginalization. Second, drawing on rich bodies of inter-generational knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have developed context-specific responses to environmental change grounded in local resources and strategies that often absorb the impacts of multiple drivers of change. Indigenous Peoples and local communities adjust in diverse ways to impacts on their livelihoods, but the adoption of responses often comes at a significant cost due to economic, political, and socio-cultural barriers operating at societal, community, household, and individual levels. Finally, divergent understandings of change challenge generalizations in research examining the human dimensions of climate change. Evidence from Indigenous and local knowledge systems is context-dependent and not always aligned with scientific evidence. Exploring divergent understandings of the concept of change derived from different knowledge systems can yield new insights which may help prioritize research and policy actions to address local needs and priorities.
AB - Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and needs receive inadequate attention in climate research and policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative research consortium arising from the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports of environmental change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded and multi-causal understandings of change, largely focused on processes and elements that are relevant to local livelihoods and cultures. These reports demonstrate that the impacts of climate change intersect with and exacerbate historical effects of socioeconomic and political marginalization. Second, drawing on rich bodies of inter-generational knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have developed context-specific responses to environmental change grounded in local resources and strategies that often absorb the impacts of multiple drivers of change. Indigenous Peoples and local communities adjust in diverse ways to impacts on their livelihoods, but the adoption of responses often comes at a significant cost due to economic, political, and socio-cultural barriers operating at societal, community, household, and individual levels. Finally, divergent understandings of change challenge generalizations in research examining the human dimensions of climate change. Evidence from Indigenous and local knowledge systems is context-dependent and not always aligned with scientific evidence. Exploring divergent understandings of the concept of change derived from different knowledge systems can yield new insights which may help prioritize research and policy actions to address local needs and priorities.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-023-00063-6
DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-023-00063-6
M3 - Article
JO - Sustainable Earth Reviews
JF - Sustainable Earth Reviews
SN - 2520-8748
M1 - 1
ER -