Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

V Reyes-García, R Cámara-Leret… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

[HTML][HTML] Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review

A Schlingmann, S Graham, P Benyei, E Corbera… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•We document 186 different local strategies to adapt to climate change
impacts.•Common climate adaptation strategies involve modifying existing livelihood …

Local indicators of climate change impacts described by indigenous peoples and local communities: Study protocol

V Reyes-García, S Álvarez-Fernández, P Benyei… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction In the quest to improve the understanding of climate change impacts on
elements of the atmospheric, physical, and life systems, scientists are challenged by the …

Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples' lifeways, lands, and rights

A Scheidel, Á Fernández-Llamazares, AH Bara… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous
Peoples' lifeways, lands, and rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over …

Creating synergies between citizen science and Indigenous and local knowledge

M Tengö, BJ Austin, F Danielsen… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local
knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and conservation. Drawing on field experience …

Ethnobiology phase VI: decolonizing institutions, projects, and scholarship

AC McAlvay, CG Armstrong, J Baker… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize
people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and …

Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

R Chaplin-Kramer, KA Brauman… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
To the Editor—Wyborn and Evans 1 argue that global priority maps for conservation have
questionable utility and may crowd out local and more contextual research. While we agree …

Citizen science and the right to research: building local knowledge of climate change impacts

S Albagli, AY Iwama - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2022 - nature.com
The article presents results of a research project aiming to develop theoretical and empirical
contributions on participatory approaches and methods of citizen science for risk mapping …

Severe droughts reduce river navigability and isolate communities in the Brazilian Amazon

L Santos de Lima, FEO Silva… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The Amazon basin is experiencing severe droughts that are expected to worsen with climate
change. Riverine communities are especially vulnerable to these extreme events. This study …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems

V Reyes-García, D García-del-Amo… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge
for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts on various local …