Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

Edited by Randall S. Abate, George Washington University Law School and Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner, Dean and Professor of Law, College of Law, The University of Utah, US

Contents:

Foreword
Stacy Leeds

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXT AND PRINCIPLES
1. Commonality Among Unique Indigenous Communities: An Introduction to Climate Change and its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk

2. Introduction to International and Domestic Climate Change Regulation
Deepa Badrinarayana

3. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ Status and Rights under International Human Rights Law
Lillian Aponte Miranda

4. Introduction to Indigenous Sovereignty under International and Domestic Law
Eugenia Charles-Newton and Elizabeth Ann Kronk

5. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Models of Sovereignty
Rebecca Tsosie

6. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation
Maxine Burkett

PART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
International Organizations
7. REDD+: Its Potential to Melt the Glacial Resistance to Recognize Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at the World Bank
Leonardo A. Crippa

South America
8. REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
Andrew Long

9. REDD+: Climate Justice or a New Face of Manifest Destiny? Lessons Drawn from the Indigenous Struggle to Resist Colonization of Ojibwe Forests in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Philomena Kebec

Lower 48 States of the United States of America
10. Natural Resource Development and Indigenous Peoples
Sarah Krakoff and Jon-Daniel Lavallee

11. Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies
Judith V. Royster

Arctic
12. Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: The Potential for Arctic Land Claims Agreements to Address Changing Environmental Conditions
Sophie Thériault

13. America’s Arctic: Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Subsistence
Peter Van Tuyn

14. The Saami Facing the Impacts of Global Climate Change
Irina L. Stoyanova

15. Complexities of Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples through International Law Petitions: A Case Study of the Inuit Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Hari M. Osofsky

Pacific Island Nations
16. Climate Change, Legal Governance and the Pacific Islands: An Overview
Erika J. Techera

17. Fiji: Climate Change, Tradition and Vanua
Victoria Sutton

18. Islands in the Stream: Addressing Climate Change from a Small Island Developing State Perspective
Clement Yow Mulalap

19. The Rising Tide of International Climate Litigation: An Illustrative Hypothetical of Tuvalu v. Australia
Keely Boom

Asia
20. The Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Populations in China and Legal Remedies
Wenxuan Yu, Jingjing Liu and Po Dong

21. Changing Climate and Changing Rights: Exploring Legal and Policy Frameworks for Indigenous Mountain Communities in Nepal to Face the Challenges of Climate Change
J. Mijin Cha

Australia and New Zealand
22. Climate Change Impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in Australia
Megan Davis

23. Negotiating Climate Change: Māori, the Crown and New Zealand’s Emission Trading Scheme
Naomi Johnstone

Africa
24. Climate Change, Law and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya: Ogiek and Maasai Narratives
Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Elvin Nyukuri

Index