Reconciling Traditional Knowledge, Food Security, and Climate Change: Experience From Old Crow, YT, Canada

Douglas, Vasiliki; Chan, Hing Man; Wesche, Sonia; Dickson, Cindy; Kassi, Norma; Netro, Lorraine; Williams, Megan A.

doi:10.1353/cpr.2014.0007

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“…Nichols et al 2004, Magga et al 2009, Douglas et al 2014. These forums also provided a way to develop research topics and define priorities that could prove useful to local knowledge users and policymakers (e.g Ford et al 2007, Doyle et al 2013…”

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A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

Davíd-Chavez

Gavin

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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For millennia Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained diverse knowledge systems informed through careful observation of dynamics of environmental changes. Although Indigenous communities and their knowledge systems are recognized as critical resources for understanding and adapting to climate change, no comprehensive, evidence-based analysis has been conducted into how environmental studies engage Indigenous communities. Here we provide the first global systematic review of levels of Indigenous community participation and decision-making in all stages of the research process (initiation, design, implementation, analysis, dissemination) in climate field studies that access Indigenous knowledge. We develop indicators for assessing responsible community engagement in research practice and identify patterns in levels of Indigenous community engagement. We find that the vast majority of climate studies (87%) practice an extractive model in which outside researchers use Indigenous knowledge systems with minimal participation or decision-making authority from communities who hold them. Few studies report on outputs that directly serve Indigenous communities, ethical guidelines for research practice, or providing Indigenous community access to findings. Further, studies initiated with (in mutual agreement between outside researchers and Indigenous communities) and by Indigenous community members report significantly more indicators for responsible community engagement when accessing Indigenous knowledges than studies initiated by outside researchers alone. This global assessment provides an evidence base to inform our understanding of broader social impacts related to research design and concludes with a series of guiding questions and methods to support responsible research practice with Indigenous and local communities.

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A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

Davíd-Chavez

Gavin

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…If noted, this information was in the background to the research (n = 16/39) [ 44 – 58 ] the method section (n = 29/39) [ 47 , 48 , 50 – 52 , 54 , 55 , 57 , 59 – 79 ], and/or in the results section (n = 3/39) [ 59 , 74 , 80 ] of the articles. A number of diverse ways were employed to identify the role of the local or regional Indigenous governing organization in the research including the development of a research or advisory board [ 55 , 65 , 75 , 77 , 81 ]; identifying research as a ‘collaboration’ or ‘partnership’ with an Indigenous organization or government [ 44 , 46 , 48 , 50 , 51 , 55 , 56 , 61 , 62 , 66 , 73 , 76 , 79 , 82 ]; and/or noting a workshop was hosted to engage or share information with the Indigenous government or organization [ 52 , 62 , 63 ]. Of the articles that detailed the role of community in the research, 33% (n = 13/39 articles) explicitly indicated that the research was community-initiated or community-led [ 46 , 48 , 51 , 53 , 55 , 57 , 60 , 65 , 67 , …”

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“…A number of diverse ways were employed to identify the role of the local or regional Indigenous governing organization in the research including the development of a research or advisory board [ 55 , 65 , 75 , 77 , 81 ]; identifying research as a ‘collaboration’ or ‘partnership’ with an Indigenous organization or government [ 44 , 46 , 48 , 50 , 51 , 55 , 56 , 61 , 62 , 66 , 73 , 76 , 79 , 82 ]; and/or noting a workshop was hosted to engage or share information with the Indigenous government or organization [ 52 , 62 , 63 ]. Of the articles that detailed the role of community in the research, 33% (n = 13/39 articles) explicitly indicated that the research was community-initiated or community-led [ 46 , 48 , 51 , 53 , 55 , 57 , 60 , 65 , 67 , 71 , 80 , 81 , 83 ]. Community-initiated or -led was described as awarding the research funding to a local Indigenous government [ 53 , 60 ], the principal investigator being the local Indigenous government [ 46 ], or a collaboration resulting from a previous working relationship between the academic researchers and the community [ 46 , 51 , 72 ].…”

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Who is research serving? A systematic realist review of circumpolar environment-related Indigenous health literature

2018

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BackgroundAddressing factors leading to health disparities in the Circumpolar North require approaches that consider and address the social determinants of health including on-going colonization. Today, colonization and related policies and processes, continue to manifest in the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge, particularly its use in research; however, Indigenous populations have moved from being research subjects to leaders and consumers of environmental health research. Given the tensions that exist between how health research is conducted, how the results are mobilized, and who has control and access to the results, we examine how peer-reviewed environment-related Indigenous health research in the Circumpolar North is serving the needs of Indigenous communities, governments, and organizations.MethodsA modified systematic-realist literature review was conducted. Three databases were searched for peer-reviewed literature published from 2000 to 2015. Articles were included if the research focused on the intersection of the environment and health in Northern Canada and/or Alaska. A total of 960 unique records were screened for relevance, and 210 articles were analysed.ResultsOf these relevant articles, 19% discussed how Indigenous peoples were engaged in the research. There was a significant increase in reporting participatory, community-based methods over time; the proportion of articles reporting community-engagement varied by research topic; quantitative research articles were significantly less likely to report community-engaged methods; and most articles did not clearly report how the results were shared with the community.ConclusionThe results raise a number of questions for the field of Circumpolar environment-related Indigenous health research, including whether or how authors of peer-reviewed literature should (or should not) be obliged to describe how research is serving Northern Indigenous communities. The results are intended to stimulate further conversations and bridge perceived dichotomies of quantitative/qualitative, Western/Indigenous, and empirical/community driven research approaches, as well as underlying assumptions that frame health research.

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“…However, studies which take into account traditional knowledge now seem to have gained more importance in research to better understand Arctic change and adaptation to it (e.g. Riedlinger and Berkes 2001;Maynard et al 2010;Douglas et al 2014;Cuerrier et al 2015;Vinyeta and Lynn 2013;Golden et al 2015). Also, special attention in this literature has been placed on recognising the impacts to indigenous communities and institutional frameworks related to strategies to deal with the impacts, such as community-based adaptation strategies and participatory planning (Tremblay et al 2008;Hovelsrud and Smit 2010;Pearce et al 2012;Champalle et al 2015).…”

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Loss and Damage in the Rapidly Changing Arctic

Landauer

Juhola

2018

Loss and Damage From Climate Change

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Arctic climate change is happening much faster than the global average. Arctic change also has global consequences, in addition to local ones. Scientific evidence shows that meltwater of Arctic sources contributes to sea-level rise significantly while accounting for 35% of current global sea-level rise. Arctic communities have to find ways to deal with rapidly changing environmental conditions that are leading to social impacts such as outmigration, similarly to the global South. International debates on Loss and Damage have not addressed the Arctic so far. We review literature to show what impacts of climate change are already visible in the Arctic, and present local cases in order to provide empirical evidence of losses and damages in the Arctic region. This evidence is particularly well presented in the context of outmigration and relocation of which we highlight examples. The review reveals a need for new governance mechanisms and institutional frameworks to tackle Loss and Damage. Finally, we discuss what implications Arctic losses and damages have for the international debate.

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Reconciling Traditional Knowledge, Food Security, and Climate Change: Experience From Old Crow, YT, Canada

Cited by 25 publications

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A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

Who is research serving? A systematic realist review of circumpolar environment-related Indigenous health literature

Loss and Damage in the Rapidly Changing Arctic

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