Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Communications Earth and Environment
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
10
Abstract
The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts on various local social-ecological systems. Here we use a place-specific but cross-culturally comparable protocol to document climate change indicators and impacts as locally experienced and analyze their distribution. We collected first-hand data in 48 sites inhabited by Indigenous Peoples and local communities and covering all climate zones and nature-dependent livelihoods. We documented 1,661 site-agreed reports of change corresponding to 369 indicators. Reports of change vary according to climate zone and livelihood activity. We provide compelling evidence that climate change impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities are ongoing, tangible, widespread, and affect multiple elements of their social-ecological systems. Beyond potentially informing contextualized adaptation plans, our results show that local reports could help identify economic and non-economic loss and damage related to climate change impacts suffered by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Department
Department of Geography
Original Publication Date
1-9-2024
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1038/s43247-023-01164-y
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2024 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sharakhmatova, Victoria; Reyes-García, Victoria; García-del-Amo, David; Álvarez-Fernández, Santiago; Benyei, Petra; Calvet-Mir, Laura; Junqueira, André B.; Labeyrie, Vanesse; Li, Xiaoyue; Miñarro, Sara; Porcher, Vincent; Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna; Schlingmann, Anna; Schunko, Christoph; Soleymani, Ramin; Tofighi-Niaki, Adrien; Abazeri, Mariam; Attoh, Emmanuel M.N.A.N.; Ayanlade, Ayansina; Ávila, Julia Vieira Da Cunha; Babai, Daniel; Bulamah, Rodrigo C.; Campos-Silva, Joao; Carmona, Rosario; Caviedes, Julián; Chakauya, Rumbidzayi; Chambon, Mouna; Chen, Zhuo; Chengula, Fasco; Conde, Esther; and Cuní-Sanchez, Aida, "Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems" (2024). Faculty Publications. 5631.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5631
Comments
First published in Communications Earth & Environment, v5 (Jan 2024) published by Springer Nature Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01164-y