Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change From Victims to Change Agents through Decent Work

Indigenous health and climate change.

Indigenous populations have been identified as vulnerable to climate change. This framing, however, is detached from the diverse geographies of how people experience, understand, and respond to climate-related health outcomes, and overlooks nonclimatic determinants. I reviewed research on indigenous health and climate change to capture place-based dimensions of vulnerability and broader determi...

Continuity and change in hunting behaviour among contemporary indigenous peoples

a Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Univ Autònoma Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain b CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain c Univ Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Barcelona, Spain d Departamento de Biología, Unidad de Botánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain e Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICR...

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

Drug Policy and Indigenous Peoples

This paper identifies the principal concerns of indigenous peoples with regard to current international treaties on certain psychoactive substances and policies to control and eradicate their production, trafficking, and sale. Indigenous peoples have a specific interest in the issue since their traditional lands have become integrated over time into the large-scale production of coca, opium pop...