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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2009 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 22-27, 2009

Title:

Native Lands, Climate Change and Environmental Issues

Description:

Climate change and the associated shifting patterns of weather and plant and animal life have enormous impact on Indigenous peoples. Artic peoples and tropical islanders are currently the most significantly affected, but indigenous peoples as a whole—living closer to the land—are more quickly and acutely affected by the environmental issues of climate change.

There has been increasing scholarly involvement on these issues, including several sessions at recent AAG meetings, as well as other conferences around the hemisphere including the past two Tribal College Forums. In addition, there is increasing involvement of Native scholars and students in adapting GIS and other tools for addressing indigenous issues to perform scholarship in culturally appropriate ways.

This session seeks to further our ongoing engagement on this topic, with a range of scholarship being done in this important area.

Anticipated Attendance:

100

Organizers:

RDK Herman

Chairs:

Sarah F. Trainor

Participants:

Presenter:

YundanNima, "Gray Grass Is Gone While Green Grass Has Not Come Back Yet" : Grassland Degradation Discourses and Tibetan Herders` Perceptions of Changes in Grassland Conditions

Presenter:

Kenneth R. Young, Climate Change and Indigenous Livelihoods: Examples from Peru

Presenter:

Julianne Hazlewood, CO2lonialist Commoditization of Climate Change, African Oil Palm Plantation Expansion, and Geographies of Hope in the Ecuadorian Chocó Region

Presenter:

Jeremy Pittman, The Vulnerability of the James Smith and Shoal Lake First Nations to Climate Change and Variability

Presenter:

Mary Finley-Brook, Latin American Carbon Finance

 

Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group

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