Article
Environmental Sciences
Lauren A. Dent, Jamie Donatuto, Larry Campbell, Marnie Boardman, Jeremy J. Hess, Nicole A. Errett
Summary: As climate change increasingly impacts indigenous peoples, it is crucial to prioritize their voices, needs, and priorities in regional climate change adaptation efforts. While tribal climate change principles provide actionable recommendations at the federal level in the U.S., their application at the regional level needs further exploration. This research highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by non-tribal entities when engaging with tribes on regional climate adaptation initiatives.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ann M. Mc Cartney, Jane Anderson, Libby Liggins, Maui L. Hudson, Matthew Z. Anderson, Ben TeAika, Janis Geary, Robert Cook-Deegan, Hardip R. Patel, Adam M. Phillippy
Summary: The field of genomics has greatly benefited from open data sharing, but as the volume of sequence information grows and more international genomics efforts emerge, the fairness of openness is being questioned. Redefining openness to address barriers to engagement and protect Indigenous peoples and global biodiversity is of immediate importance.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Paula Blackett, Stephen FitzHerbert, Jordan Luttrell, Tania Hopmans, Hayley Lawrence, Jackie Colliar
Summary: Indigenous peoples are actively engaging in hybridizing knowledge systems and negotiating new environmental realities to develop their own adaptation options. The paper demonstrates how collaboration through a serious game platform, Marae-opoly, facilitated cross-cultural climate change knowledge exchange and informed localized adaptation decisions for a Maori community. The in-situ co-development process was crucial to the success of the approach and provided valuable lessons for research partnerships in supporting indigenous adaptation decisions.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Phyllis S. Sin, Lorraine Avery, Annette Schultz, Shuangbo Liu, John Ducas
Summary: The rate of cardiovascular disease has decreased in Canada due to lifestyle improvements and medical advancements, but it has increased among Indigenous populations. Indigenous patient support services play an important role in improving healthcare access and management, but there are gaps in consistent access to culturally specific services.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Eranga K. Galappaththi, James D. Ford, Elena M. Bennett, Fikret Berkes
Summary: The study compared the adaptation measures of Inuit and Coastal-Vedda communities to climate change, finding that two common adaptive strategies across the communities are diversification and adaptive co-management. Additionally, there are eight sources of resilience identified, and definitive characteristics for successful community adaptation include continuous learning, capacity-building, rootedness, collective action, and flexibility.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Leonor M. Ward, Mary Janet Hill, Annie Picard, Anita Olsen Harper, Samia Chreim, Samantha Wells
Summary: This paper explores the healing process among the Innu people, outlining five stages: hiding under the blanket, finding spiritual strength, reaching out to others, gaining strength and power, and helping others. The research emphasizes the importance of spirituality, support from Elders, cultural reconnection, and resistance to negative stereotypes in facilitating healing among the Innu.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Ruth Teh, Ngaire Kerse, Avinesh Pillai, Thomas Lumley, Anna Rolleston, Tin Aung Kyaw, Martin Connolly, Joanna Broad, Elaine Monteiro, Valerie Wright-St Clair, Robert N. Doughty
Summary: This study describes the prevalence and incidence rate of atrial fibrillation (AF) in New Zealand octogenarians and its association with the risk of stroke and mortality. It found that AF is more prevalent in octogenarians, particularly in the indigenous Maori population. The study suggests that AF should receive increased attention in healthcare management for octogenarians.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paulo T. C. Jardim, Josiliane M. Dias, Antonio J. Grande, Andre B. Veras, Erika K. Ferri, Fatima A. A. Quadros, Clayton Peixoto, Francielle C. S. Botelho, Maria I. M. G. Oliveira, Ieda M. A. V. Dias, Majella O'Keeffe, Christelle Elia, Paola Dazzan, Ingrid Wolfe, Seeromanie Harding
Summary: Latin America and the Caribbean Region have a significant Indigenous population, and there is a need for addressing health inequities and promoting well-being among Indigenous youth. The study involved Indigenous young people and adults in identifying priority actions related to family, education, socio-economic circumstances, nutrition, physical activity, and access to healthcare to improve youth health.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Okechukwu Ejims
Summary: This article aims to highlight important aspects of a methodology regarding indigenous peoples' rights in the context of analyzing international investment law. The adopted approach is a legal positivist one, which recognizes the significance of indigenous peoples' rights and interests in land and natural resources in international law. Particularly, in the framework of international investment law, it emphasizes the need for a methodology that equally protects and promotes indigenous peoples' rights and interests in land and resources.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marcelo Goncalves Duarte, Nadia Cristina Valentini, Glauber Carvalho Nobre, Rodolfo Novellino Benda
Summary: This study investigated the motor performance and body mass index in indigenous land children, indigenous urban children, and non-indigenous urban children. The results showed that indigenous land children had higher motor performance compared to indigenous and non-indigenous urban children. Indigenous urban children also had higher motor performance than non-indigenous urban children. However, body mass index did not differ significantly among the groups. The study highlighted the importance of contextual factors, such as an active lifestyle and unsupervised free time, in influencing motor performance in indigenous land children.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Sylvestre-Jose-Tidiane Manga
Summary: This article introduces a web-based multilingual tool that aims to facilitate communication between local and indigenous communities. By utilizing digital GIS, remote sensing products, and smartphone applications, this tool can assist indigenous peoples in contributing to climate resilience-building in terms of biodiversity and poverty eradication, and promote their participation in decision-making processes.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Danielle Emma Johnson, Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher
Summary: This article discusses how Indigenous peoples' perspectives and concerns are being considered in climate change adaptation research and practice, emphasizing the importance of decolonizing approaches in this process. It mentions literature helping to decolonize climate adaptation scholarship and practice, but also highlights challenges in exploring heterogeneous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Ayusha Bajracharya, Krishna K. Shrestha, Anthony B. Zwi, Eileen Baldry
Summary: This paper examines the experience of Indigenous women in the disaster recovery process, using a case study of Indigenous Guthi in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. The study shows that Indigenous women experience fear and anxiety and have limited capacity to influence the recovery process. The government's response has been unsatisfactory, focusing too much on physical reconstruction and neglecting social and cultural recovery. However, Indigenous knowledge, institutions, and cultures have attempted to combine physical and social recovery, addressing the needs of many Indigenous women. The paper highlights the need for a reframing of gendered disasters through understanding knowledge hegemony, challenging tokenistic participation, and changing misguided gender mainstreaming policies and practices in disaster risk reduction.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Carolyn M. Melro, Jyllenna Landry, Kimberly Matheson
Summary: This study aims to analyze the current literature on educational initiatives that teach about historical and ongoing colonialism as a determinant of health in health professional programs. The findings highlight the commonly used theoretical frameworks and evaluation tools, and emphasize the need for longitudinal evaluation studies to address the shortcomings in the design and evaluation of outcomes associated with teaching about colonialism.
ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Danielle Emma Johnson, Karen Fisher, Meg Parsons
Summary: This paper explores the influence of multiple subjectivities on the vulnerability and adaptation to climate change among Indigenous peoples, using ethnographic research with Maori women in New Zealand. The study suggests that power dynamics mediated by subjectivity within Indigenous societies play a crucial role in determining vulnerability and adaptation, emphasizing the importance of considering diverse experiences within Indigenous communities. The intersectional framework employed in the research highlights the need for inclusive and tailored adaptation strategies.
Review
Environmental Studies
Alicea Garcia, Noemi Gonda, Ed Atkins, Naomi Joy Godden, Karen Paiva Henrique, Meg Parsons, Petra Tschakert, Gina Ziervogel
Summary: Drawing on recent resilience literature, this review article examines the role of power in resilience efforts and highlights the consequences of overlooking complexity. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how resilience intersects with patterns of inequity.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Johanna Nalau, Gemma Cobb
Summary: Climate change adaptation involves planning for the future and addressing current challenges. Future visioning exercises are used to help stakeholders imagine different future scenarios. Most studies focus on the regional scale and use various methods and data, but few use normative scenarios that could enable more transformative thinking.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Danielle Emma Johnson, Karen Fisher, Meg Parsons
Summary: This paper explores the influence of multiple subjectivities on the vulnerability and adaptation to climate change among Indigenous peoples, using ethnographic research with Maori women in New Zealand. The study suggests that power dynamics mediated by subjectivity within Indigenous societies play a crucial role in determining vulnerability and adaptation, emphasizing the importance of considering diverse experiences within Indigenous communities. The intersectional framework employed in the research highlights the need for inclusive and tailored adaptation strategies.
Article
Public Administration
Rebecca McNaught, Kalara McGregor, Matthew Kensen, Rob Hales, Johanna Nalau
Summary: The Pacific Islands region has made significant progress in integrating climate change, disaster management, and development frameworks through local-level collaboration. However, research on the role of local-level collaboration in implementation is limited, and there is a lack of guidance based on in-country practitioner experiences. This study addresses these gaps, highlighting the invisible skill sets present in Pacific cultures that can contribute to climate- and disaster-resilient development. Documenting and developing these soft skills can bridge the gap between ambition and reality.
COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher
Summary: This study examines how settler-colonial-led policies in New Zealand resulted in Indigenous environmental injustices, with Maori and Pakeha settlers having differing interpretations of environmental changes, leading to varied perceptions of floods and negative impacts on the environment.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Melissa Nursey-Bray, Meg Parsons, Ariane Gienger
Summary: Climate change has significant impacts on cities and Indigenous peoples, but there is a lack of research on how Indigenous people experience climate change in urban areas. This gap is attributed to the ongoing effects of settler colonization, which has marginalized and erased Indigenous voices in cities. Action is needed to reclaim and assert Indigenous voices regarding climate change and policy in urban areas.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Edward R. Carr, Johanna Nalau
Summary: The article proposes a typology of adaptation benefits that enables the construction of meaningful and transparent adaptation rationales. This typology can improve project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, as well as foster a better understanding of adaptation approaches, assumptions, and efficacy at the portfolio level.
CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Geography
Meg Parsons
Summary: This dialogue situates governance approaches led by wellbeing within the broader discussions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars regarding decolonisation, climate change, and cultural resurgence. It emphasizes the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples worldwide in confronting the marginalization of Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and practices, and their efforts to reestablish and enact caring, kin-centric, and reciprocal relationships with both humans and more-than-humans through decolonising governance and management approaches.
DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Meg Parsons
Summary: The global loss and damage fund is crucial for supporting climate-impacted groups and assisting their local adaptation initiatives. Recent research on the Vanuatu population underscores the importance of placing human rights as a central consideration in loss and damage fund agendas.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Review
Development Studies
Petra Tschakert, Meg Parsons, Ed Atkins, Alicea Garcia, Naomi Godden, Noemi Gonda, Karen Paiva Henrique, Susannah Sallu, Karin Steen, Gina Ziervogel
Summary: Critical scholarship examines the roles of power, agency, social difference, intersecting inequalities, and social justice in shaping people's resilience to climate change and development pathways. However, there is a lack of understanding on how to effectively address power asymmetries and strengthen resilience for marginalized populations, particularly from a methodological perspective.
Article
Environmental Studies
Meg Parsons, Gautami Bhor, Roa Petra Crease
Summary: This article explores the informal politics of climate activism by young people in Auckland, New Zealand. The youth participants demonstrate their agency through various actions, such as protesting, eco-consuming, influencing others, and eco-caring work, in an effort to mitigate climate change. They express hope that their small-scale actions can contribute to systemic changes, but also criticize attempts by state and corporate actors to shift responsibility onto individuals. The participants narrate their climate actions as acts of resistance against the high-carbon, neoliberal, and capitalist status quo, aiming to trigger wider change.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Allan Rarai, Meg Parsons, Melissa Nursey-Bray, Roa Crease
Summary: This paper argues for the inclusion of multiple ontologies within adaptation policymaking, particularly in the Pacific region. Pacific adaptation policies mainly focus on Western scientific knowledge, but there is a need to consider non-Western ontologies and epistemologies.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
(2022)
Article
Geography
Leane Makey, Karen Fisher, Meg Parsons, Aleesha Bennett, Vicky Miru, Te Kahui-iti Morehu, Jane Sherard
Summary: In settler-colonial nations like New Zealand, ecosystem degradation and restoration are often approached through a scientific lens that may overlook the perspectives and beliefs of Indigenous peoples. Sediment pollution is considered undesirable in New Zealand due to colonization, requiring scientific intervention, but science is sometimes prioritized over other ways of knowing. Indigenous peoples offer unique ways of understanding nature, focusing on relational ontologies and ethics, which can reshape knowledge production for more ethical and just relationships with nature.
Article
Environmental Studies
Danielle Emma Johnson, Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher
Summary: This article discusses how Indigenous peoples' perspectives and concerns are being considered in climate change adaptation research and practice, emphasizing the importance of decolonizing approaches in this process. It mentions literature helping to decolonize climate adaptation scholarship and practice, but also highlights challenges in exploring heterogeneous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
(2022)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Johanna Loehr, Susanne Becken, Johanna Nalau, Brendan Mackey
Summary: This article introduces the EbA framework for the tourism sector, with a focus on well-being and climate risk reduction. The framework is applied to a case study in Tanna Island, Vanuatu, highlighting the potential benefits of EbA for destinations. The article provides insights into the constraints and possible solutions for successful implementation.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hallie Eakin, Nadine Methner, Gina Ziervogel
Summary: There is a growing need to involve private actors in public adaptation in urban systems. Urban administrators have limited control over urban dynamics, and the actions of private actors have a significant influence. A conceptual framework combining cognitive and behavioral theory, institutional analysis, adaptive capacity, and research on urban adaptation governance is used to understand the potential for private provisioning. The case of Cape Town's response to drought illustrates the complex interactions that shape private actors' willingness to engage in public-oriented adaptation.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2024)