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Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities


Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and needs receive inadequate attention in climate research and policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative research consortium arising from the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports of environmental change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded and multi-causal understandings of change, largely focused on processes and elements that are relevant to local livelihoods and cultures. These reports demonstrate that the impacts of climate change intersect with and exacerbate historical effects of socioeconomic and political marginalization. Second, drawing on rich bodies of inter-generational knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have developed context-specific responses to environmental change grounded in local resources and strategies that often absorb the impacts of multiple drivers of change. Indigenous Peoples and local communities adjust in diverse ways to impacts on their livelihoods, but the adoption of responses often comes at a significant cost due to economic, political, and socio-cultural barriers operating at societal, community, household, and individual levels. Finally, divergent understandings of change challenge generalizations in research examining the human dimensions of climate change. Evidence from Indigenous and local knowledge systems is context-dependent and not always aligned with scientific evidence. Exploring divergent understandings of the concept of change derived from different knowledge systems can yield new insights which may help prioritize research and policy actions to address local needs and priorities.

Science highlights

→Place-based communities provide holistic, culturally-grounded, and multi-causal reports of change.

→Place-based communities rely on local means to adapt to change, but implementing responses incurs costs.

→Local reports of change reveal grounded needs and interests that could guide research and policy action.Policy and practice recommendations

→Recognize Indigenous Peoples and local communities as legitimate custodians of climate change knowledge.

→Uphold Indigenous Peoples’ rights to participate in climate change decision-making.

→Adjust research to ensure that funding, timing and data ownership align with local needs and interests.

Información
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Victoria Reyes-García

David García-Del-Amo

Anna Porcuna-Ferrer

Anna Schlingmann

Mariam Abazeri

Emmanuel M. N. A. N. Attoh

Julia Vieira da Cunha Ávila

Ayansina Ayanlade

Daniel Babai

Petra Benyei

Laura Calvet-Mir

Rosario Carmona

Julián Caviedes

Jane Chah

Rumbidzayi Chakauya

Aida Cuní-Sanchez

Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

Eranga K. Galappaththi

Drew Gerkey

Sonia Graham

Théo Guillerminet

Tomás Huanca

José Tomás Ibarra

André B. Junqueira

Xiaoyue Li

Yolanda López-Maldonado

Giulia Mattalia

Aibek Samakov

Christoph Schunko

Reinmar Seidler

Victoria Sharakhmatova

Priyatma Singh

Adrien Tofighi-Niaki

Miquel Torrents-Ticó

LICCI Consortium

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2024
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Artículo
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Sustainable Earth Reviews Vol. 7launch

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Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria.reyes@uab.cat


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