scholarly journals “Land is everything, land is us”: Exploring the connections between climate change, land, and health in Fort William First Nation

2022 ◽  
pp. 114700
Author(s):  
Lindsay P. Galway ◽  
Elizabeth Esquega ◽  
Kelsey Jones-Casey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
First Nation

scholarly journals Commentary - The Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program: Indigenous Climate Leaders’ Championing Adaptation Efforts

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 127-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Richards ◽  
Jim Frehs ◽  
Erin Myers ◽  
Marilyn Van Bibber
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Canada ◽  
Climate Change And Health ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program (CCHAP) is a program within the First Nations Inuit Health Branch of Indigenous Services Canada (which was previously under the responsibility of Health Canada). The CCHAP supports Inuit and First Nation communities in mitigating and adapting to the health impacts of climate change. The impacts of climate change on Indigenous health can be observed in multiple areas including, but not limited to, food security, cultural medicines, mental health and landbased practices. This program seeks to address the needs of climate change and health in First Nation and Inuit communities to support resiliency and adaptation to a changing climate both now and in the future through its emphasis on youth and capacity building. The commentary is based on the Program’s eleven years of experience working with and for Indigenous communities and provides an overview of the CCHAP model and the work it has and continues to support. This paper demonstrates three examples of community-based projects to mitigate and adapt to the health impacts of climate change to demonstrate climate change resiliency within Indigenous communities.

First Nations Peoples, Climate Change, Human Rights and Legal Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narelle Bedford ◽  
Tony McAvoy SC ◽  
Lindsey Stevenson-Graf
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Legal Responses

This article provides a First Nations standpoint on climate change, informed by human rights law and legal education. It is co-authored by a Yuin woman who is a law academic, a Wirdi man who is a Queens Counsel, and a human rights law academic. The article argues that for any responses to climate change to be effective, they must be grounded in the perspectives, knowledge, and rights of First Nations peoples. The utility of human rights instruments to protect First Nation interests in a climate change milieu is explored at the international and domestic levels. Concomitantly, structural change must begin with the Indigenisation of legal education and the embedding of legal responses to climate change into the law curriculum. A holistic approach is necessary. 

Climate change and water at Stellat'en First Nation, British Columbia, Canada: Insights from western science and traditional knowledge

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene Sanderson ◽  
Ian M. Picketts ◽  
Stephen J. Déry ◽  
Bryndel Fell ◽  
Sharolise Baker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Western Science

scholarly journals Climate change, wellbeing and resilience in the Weenusk First Nation at Peawanuck: the Moccasin Telegraph goes global

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Lemelin ◽  
Drew Matthews ◽  
Charlie Mattina ◽  
Norman McIntyre ◽  
Margaret Johnston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
First Nation

Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-729
Author(s):  
Roslyn Gleadow ◽  
Jim Hanan ◽  
Alan Dorin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Food Security ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Plant Insect Interactions ◽  
Native Habitat ◽  
Insect Pollinators ◽  
Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

Climate change and breeding success: decline of the capercaillie in Scotland

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Moss ◽  
James Oswald ◽  
David Baines
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Breeding Success
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