LibGuides: Environmental Justice: Indigenous Communities

Selected Books on Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities

"Indigenous peoples are among the first to face the direct consequences of climate change, due to their dependence upon, and close relationship, with the environment and its resources. Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by indigenous communities including political and economic marginalization, loss of land and resources, human rights violations, discrimination and unemployment."

--United Nations, www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/climate-change.html

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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies
Explores the ways in which indigenous peoples across the world are challenged by climate change impacts, and discusses the legal resources available to confront those challenges.

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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States
With a long history and deep connection to the Earth's resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts.

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Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
Study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.

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Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation
Examines new and innovative ideas concerning Native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts, collaborations, and conservation groups.

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Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Case studies in which Native communities and their rural neighbors join together to protect natural resources against threats such as mines, dams, or an oil pipeline.

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