Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

In this essay, we will discuss the lessons that we have learned in a course titled “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change” regarding Indigenous efforts and epistemologies to cope with stresses and plights induced by global climate change. Primarily informed by humanistic perspectives, we examine how Indigenous peoples, especially those of North America, process climate change through their cultural values and social priorities, with a particular focus on human emotions or feelings associated with their homeland, which often called sense of place or belonging, in contrast to the abstract concepts that originate from the natural sciences.

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Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13010029 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak ◽

Yi-Ya Hsu ◽

Li-San Hung ◽

Huei-Min Tsai ◽

tibusungu ‘e vayayana

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Disaster Recovery ◽

Global Climate ◽

Ecological Knowledge ◽

Typhoon Morakot ◽

Post Disaster

In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

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The tip of the iceberg: Ice as a non-human actor in the climate change debate

Études/Inuit/Studies ◽

10.7202/045408ar ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 133-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Lill Rastad Bjørst

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Core Region ◽

Hybrid Networks ◽

The Arctic ◽

Central Aspect

Abstract The global climate change debate has the Arctic as a core region of concern and ice has become a central aspect of discourses. This article discusses ice representations from six different contexts linked to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen. The author argues that even though the discussions often seem to be centred on ice alone, the latter enters into narratives and metaphors that have wider implications for how the Arctic and its Indigenous peoples are represented. Ice becomes a non-human actor, framing the discussions, acting in specific ways, and linking hybrid networks. Indeed it is used in diverse platforms by scientists, politicians, governments, and NGOs, as well as by Inuit hunters and fishers.

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Climate Change and Cultural Cognition

Philosophy and Climate Change ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198796282.003.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 178-198

Author(s):

Daniel Greco

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Rational Belief ◽

Partial Answer ◽

Cultural Cognition ◽

Rational Beliefs ◽

Scientific Results

How should we form beliefs concerning global climate change? For most of us, directly evaluating the evidence isn’t feasible; we lack expertise. So, any rational beliefs we form will have to be based in part on deference to those who have it. But in this domain, questions about how to identify experts can be fraught. This chapter discusses a partial answer to the question of how we in fact identify experts: Dan Kahan’s cultural cognition thesis, according to which we treat experts on factual questions of political import only insofar as they share our moral and cultural values. The chapter then poses some normative questions about cultural cognition: is it a species of irrationality that must be overcome if we are to communicate scientific results effectively, or is it instead an inescapable part of rational belief management? Ultimately, it is argued that cultural cognition is substantively unreasonable, though not formally irrational.

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