Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country

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Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country

This resource discusses opportunities and structural limitations for sustainable climate change adaptation in American Indian communities, using the example of water and land right conflicts within the Wind River Reservation of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.

Aim of the resource

This resource aims to illustrate the importance of authority and flexibility to climate change adaptation and justice in indigenous communities.

Using the resource

Potential benefits from using the resource

Using the example of real tribal communities to illustrate broader ideas makes this resource widely applicable to different situations

Potential limitations from using the resource

Indigenous communities may have different systems of governance and culture, even when living in the same reservation (as the Wind River example shows), so each case must be considered on its own basis

Scope

Sub/region where used

North America

Scale of application

National

Practical information

UN languages in which the resource is available

Contact details

United States Geological Survey

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Resources

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Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country

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