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Climate Change and Indigenous People in the South Pacific


Climate Change and Indigenous People in the South Pacific

Indigenous people of the South Pacific guard their land fearlessly against their enemies. This maxim is being challenged by a new enemy – climate change. Unlike ...

The Pacific Islands: The front line in the battle against climate change

The Pacific Islands region is one of the first regions experiencing the impacts of climate change. Many of the islands are low-lying, often ...

Climate change is drastically changing life for Indigenous peoples in ...

A new U.N. report finds that the southwest Pacific region faced more extreme drought and rainfall than average last year, and dozens of ...

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: A Synthesis of Current ...

Impacts to tourism are perhaps most severe for indigenous peoples of Pacific ... Community relocations: the Arctic and South Pacific. ... Climate change and Pacific ...

Research shows the science behind Pacific Islanders indigenous ...

Researchers reviewed the evidence on traditional knowledge in the Pacific for coping with climate change and found much was scientifically ...

Indigenous Peoples | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov

Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and other Indigenous peoples and communities are particularly vulnerable to the ...

As climate crisis alters their lands, Indigenous Peoples turn to the ...

In many places there are fears climate change, combined with other threats like pollution and unregulated mining, logging and oil drilling, ...

Traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands

Pacific peoples developed a range of place-based strategies intended to align livelihoods with both seasonal environmental changes and those ...

Living on the margins: Climate change impacts and adaptation by ...

This article draws on our experiences of remote communities in diverse environments – the tropical islands of the South Pacific, the mountains of the Himalaya ...

Climate-forced Indigenous Migration: Humanizing the Impact of ...

Threatened by the effects of climate change, such as coastal erosion and rising sea levels, Indigenous people are being forced to relocate ...

The Pacific | Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform

Indigenous peoples are adapting to climate change using their indigenous knowledge, traditional knowledge and customary practices. Through practices such as the ...

Climate Change | United Nations For Indigenous Peoples

Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by indigenous communities including political and economic marginalization, loss of land and resources ...

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples - Edward Elgar Publishing

Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely ...

Indigenous wisdom in response to climate change - Only One

Cyclones are just one consequence of the climate crisis facing communities in Fiji and Samoa. Rising sea levels are causing food shortages and ...

The Use of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Climate Change ...

The risks posed by climate change, and in particular climate's impact on marginalized communities, have further exposed the linkages between ...

Harnessing traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific

Climate change adaptation in the Pacific needs to be examined more carefully. While it is empirically established that those most impacted ...

Indigenous peoples and climate change

At the same time, up to 80 per cent of over 370 million indigenous peoples worldwide are spread across Asia and the Pacific, a region particularly vulnerable to ...

Pacific Islands - Global Greengrants Fund

But indigenous populations and fragile ecosystems are severely threatened by climate change, industrial logging, palm-oil expansion, and a lack of corporate ...

How Indigenous Communities Are Adapting To Climate Change

Climate change directly threatens human health, with substantial impacts on Indigenous peoples, who are uniquely vulnerable as ...

Hawai'i and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands

Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge systems are central to the resilience of island communities amidst the changing climate (high confidence) . Reciprocal ...