Final CFP: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 9-13, 2013, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group and the
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Climate change and the associated shifting patterns of weather and plant and animal life have enormous impact on Indigenous peoples. The issues surrounding climate change and Indigenous peoples vary, but include water availability, glacial retreat, agricultural patterns, shifting plant populations, and changes in ecological cycles. These will have significant impacts on Indigenous populations. Climate change poses problems of both environmental justice and Human Rights for Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous peoples have been responding with strategies for adaptation and mitigation.
This session or series of sessions invites scholars working on climate change with Indigenous peoples to present papers on their work. Papers on any aspect of this topic will be welcome, as we look to see the range of scholarship being done in this important area. Topics may include but are not limited to
* collaborative approaches and initiatives between native and non-native communities
* responses to climate change in Indigenous communities: adaptation and mitigation
* issues on planning and policies for social and environmental justice
* community planning for climate change impacts
* research partnerships with Indigenous communities
* issues regarding fossil fuel extraction or alternative energy development on Indigenous lands
* REDD and other climate policies and their impacts on Indigenous peoples
* impacts of and adaptations to sea level rise
* ways in which Indigenous communities interface with animal nations
* impacts regarding flora and biodiversity
* the intersection of scientific, historical, and Indigenous knowledges about the impacts of climate change
* Indigenous or hybrid epistemologies regarding weather and climate
Interested participants should please contact Doug Herman, Senior Geographer, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: [log in to unmask]
October 24, 2012 is the deadline for abstracts and sessions. Please contact me before then!
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