Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

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

• Contents:ForewordStacy Leeds PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXT AND PRINCIPLES1. Commonality Among Unique Indigenous Communities: An Introduction to Climate Change and its Impacts on Indigenous PeoplesRandall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk2. Introduction to International and Domestic Climate Change RegulationDeepa Badrinarayana3. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ Status and Rights under International Human Rights LawLillian Aponte Miranda4. Introduction to Indigenous Sovereignty under International and Domestic LawEugenia Charles-Newton and Elizabeth Ann Kronk5. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Models of SovereigntyRebecca Tsosie6. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change AdaptationMaxine BurkettPART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVESInternational Organizations7. REDD+: Its Potential to Melt the Glacial Resistance to Recognize Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at the World BankLeonardo A. CrippaSouth America8. REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples in BrazilAndrew Long9. 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 CenturiesPhilomena KebecLower 48 States of the United States of America10. Natural Resource Development and Indigenous PeoplesSarah Krakoff and Jon-Daniel Lavallee11. Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation StrategiesJudith V. RoysterArctic 12. Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: The Potential for Arctic Land Claims Agreements to Address Changing Environmental ConditionsSophie Thériault13. America’s Arctic: Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and SubsistencePeter Van Tuyn14. The Saami Facing the Impacts of Global Climate ChangeIrina L. Stoyanova15. 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 RightsHari M. OsofskyPacific Island Nations16. Climate Change, Legal Governance and the Pacific Islands: An OverviewErika J. Techera17. Fiji: Climate Change, Tradition and VanuaVictoria Sutton18. Islands in the Stream: Addressing Climate Change from a Small Island Developing State PerspectiveClement Yow Mulalap19. The Rising Tide of International Climate Litigation: An Illustrative Hypothetical of Tuvalu v. AustraliaKeely BoomAsia 20. The Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Populations in China and Legal RemediesWenxuan Yu, Jingjing Liu and Po Dong21. Changing Climate and Changing Rights: Exploring Legal and Policy Frameworks for Indigenous Mountain Communities in Nepal to Face the Challenges of Climate ChangeJ. Mijin ChaAustralia and New Zealand22. Climate Change Impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in AustraliaMegan Davis23. Negotiating Climate Change: Māori, the Crown and New Zealand’s Emission Trading SchemeNaomi JohnstoneAfrica24. Climate Change, Law and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya: Ogiek and Maasai NarrativesPatricia Kameri-Mbote and Elvin NyukuriIndex

‘This volume pairs climate change-related issues with legal solutions tailored to indigenous peoples and their concerns, covering world regions from the Pacific Islands to North and South America and Africa and providing a wide range of subjects: everything from reindeer husbandry in a changing Saami world to international litigation arising from climate change disputes. The result is a solid and varied set of articles and analyses key to any international legal collection and for social issues readers alike.’