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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
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| Title: |
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples I: Policy and Justice |
| Description: |
This first session on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples focuses on issues on planning and policies for social and environmental justice. The first paper draws on ethnographic material from the community of Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory and its inhabitants, this study attempts to demonstrate the connection between the physical Arctic environment and the changing identities of the Inuit of Iqaluit, including shifting generational and gender differences, and in the social problems that have come to plague the community. The second paper looks at Environmental In-justice in Canada and the United States, and the unequal distribution of burdens and benefits related to climate change within more developed, or 1st World. The third paper reports on qualitative studies in the Dene-Métis community of Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, where pictorial representations of three alternate futures related to climate variability and resource development were used to examine community vulnerability and adaptive capacity under changing social and environmental conditions. The fourth paper considers the challenges presented in developing Australian adaptation strategies to climate change. Such plans are expected to impact on Aboriginal livelihoods by affecting sacred sites, natural resources, housing, roads and health. The final paper focuses on The United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty and identifies specific areas of cross-border cooperation proposed or developed among indigenous nations in responding to the climate change crisis, and in building a larger solidarity around treaty rights, natural resource protection, and cultural revitalization. |
| Anticipated Attendance: | 100 |
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| Participants: | | Presenter: |
Elizabeth S. Vidon, The Sacred and the Profane: Landscape and Identity Change Among the Inuit |
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Sarah F. Trainor, Arctic Climate Impacts and Response: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States |
| Presenter: | Sonia Wesche, Stories of the Future: Adaptation Planning with Indigenous Communities Using Qualitative Scenarios |
| Presenter: | Siri Veland, Promoting social justice in climate change adaptation strategies for Aboriginal Australia |
| Presenter: | Zoltan Grossman, The United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty and Crossborder Cooperation |
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| Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
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