Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities

7 Videos

• Introduction to the week
• Climate change as a natural and anthropogenic phenomena
• The multiple evidences of climate change
• Indigenous peoples and local communities: who, what, where
• Local knowledge systems
• Differences and synergies between Local Ecological Knowledge and scientific knowledge
• The potential of local knowledge to understand climate change

3 Readings

• Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach
• Climate Change 2014. Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers
• Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change

1 Assignment

• Quiz 1

4 Readings

• Observations of climate change among subsistence-oriented communities around the world
• A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
• Local indicators of climate change: the potential contribution of local knowledge to climate research
• Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report

6 Videos

• Introduction to the week
• Introduction: Understanding climate change impacts on indigenous communities
• Climate change impacts on physical systems and their consequences for Indigenous People and Local Communities
• Climate change impacts on the biological system: local perceptions of changes in living organisms
• Climate change impacts on indigenous resource management systems
• Climate change impacts on indigenous health and well being

2 Readings

• Indigenous peoples and climate change
• Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer

1 Assignment

• Quiz 2

4 Readings

• The impact of climate change on the well-being and lifestyle of a First Nation community in the western James Bay region
• The impacts of climate change on human health in the United States
• An IPCC Special Report on ocean and cryosphere in changing climate
• An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

8 Videos

• Introduction to the week
• Introduction 1/2: Understanding adaptation to climate change
• Introduction 2/2: From the local to the global: Classifying local responses to climate change
• Adaptation strategies, example 1/3: Mobility as adaptation in pastoral systems
• Adaptation strategies, example 2/3: Diversification as adaptation in agricultural systems
• Adaptation strategies, example 3/3: Learning from the past: Multilevel adaptation to drought in early modern Spain
• Indigenous Peoples’ limits and barriers to climate change adaptation
• Maladaptation: When adaptation does not work

3 Readings

• Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong
• Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework
• The role of indigenous peoples in combatin climate change

1 Assignment

• Quiz 3

7 Readings

• Maladaptation
• Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change
• Landscape sustainability science in the drylands: mobility, rangelands and livelihoods
• Transitions: Pastoralists Living with Change
• Climate change and pastoralism: impacts, consequences and adaptation
• How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modeling rangeland use and evaluating risk
• Prudent Peasantries: Multilevel Adaptation to Drought in Early Modern Spain (1600-1715)

8 Videos

• Introduction to the week
• The contribution of Indigenous and local knowledge
• The classification system
• A Standard Protocol. Part 1
• A Standard Protocol. Part 2
• The use of Citizen Science. OpenTEK (OpenPlatform for Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
• Exploring OpenTEK (Open platform for Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
• Community-based monitoring with Indigenous peoples and community organisations

2 Readings

• A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research
• Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review

1 Assignment

• Quiz 4

2 Readings

• Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms
• Citizen science and sustainability transitions

9 Videos

• Introduction to the week
• A historical view of global governance for climate 1/2
• A historical view of global governance for climate 2/2
• Global climate governance: Intergovernmental regime
• Global climate governance: transnational networks, community engagement, and other actors
• Climate justice: IPLC and Climate Change impacts paradox
• Climate change interventions, conflicts and governance
• The impact of climate change policies in Protected Areas – India
• IPLC advocacy and demands in global climate change and biodiversity policy agendas (2022)

3 Readings

• Climate Governance Beyond the State
• Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
• Pursuing an Indigenous Platform: Exploring Opportunities and Constraints for Indigenous Participation in the UNFCCC

1 Assignment

• Quiz 5

5 Readings

• The multi‐level system of global climate governance–the model and its current state
• Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports
• The emerging geographies of climate justice
• Towards Convivial Conservation
• Conservation and Displacement: An Overview