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8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

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Author: 
Terri Hansen
Year: 
2013

8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve
8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

Much has been made of the need to develop climate-change-adaptation plans, especially in light of increasingly alarming findings about how swiftly the environment that sustains life as we know it is deteriorating, and how the changes compound one another to quicken the pace overall. Studies, and numerous climate models, and the re-analysis of said studies and climate models, all point to humankind as the main driver of these changes. In all these dire pronouncements and warnings there is one bright spot: It may not be too late to turn the tide and pull Mother Earth back from the brink...

climate change, ecosystem sustainability, environmental codes, environmental degradation, environmental protection, fisheries management, hatchery, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), traditional knowledge
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Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Karuk Tribe
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Cultural Affairs, Economic and Community Development, Environment and Natural Resources, Governance, Laws and Codes

Hansen, Terri. "8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve." Indian Country Today Media Network. October 15, 2013. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/8-tribes-that..., accessed October 16, 2013)

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