Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change: An Environmental Impact on Landscape and Communities

✍ Scribed by Ana Penteado (editor), Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty (editor), Owais H. Shaikh (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited book uses a methodology that includes multidisciplinary collaboration to approach climate issues from several disciplines involved in climate governance. The main aim is to showcase collaborative research designed from the point of view of experiences associated with Indigenous Knowledge from an assumption of the equitable importance of its practices, methods of search, and cultural background that Indigenous Peoples custodians have maintained through time immemorial. In showing their applied ethics and activism to protect their traditional land, this book’s mission is to advocate the concept of climate justice absent from our mainstream academic and legal discourse. Their investigation into some real-life examples and local practices organised by Nature as their main element offers, inter alia, a detailed account of Indigenous Knowledge’s duty of care towards local biodiversity that can potentially be adopted in policy formulation on environmental management and governance. These selected essays represent an international human rights approach, a human understanding of genetic resources that existed for centuries alongside the First Nations and their strategies to mitigate the contemporary climate crisis afflicting all of us. The book revolves around Indigenous Knowledge of First Peoples, tribal and local communities in the Global South. In climate justice, Indigenous Peoples’ advocacy to protect our local biodiversity must be crucial change mitigation.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
About This Volume
About This Book
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I Water
1 Ancient Wisdom Dreaming a Climate Chance
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Ancient Wisdom
1.3 Who Are We?
1.4 Bookarrakarra—Dreaming the Time Between Past, Present, and Future
1.5 Warloongarriy River Law
1.6 Our Law, Our Peoples, Our River Country
1.7 Foreseeable Harm Versus Peace with Indigenous People and with Nature
1.8 Bio-Cultural Governance—A Model of Hope and Freedom
References
2 Climate Change Impacts on Pakistan’s Mountain Agriculture: A Study on Burusho Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies Towards Livelihood Sustainability
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan Region and Pakistan
2.1.2 Climate Change in Gilgit-Baltistan
2.1.3 The Burusho Community
2.1.4 Sustainable Development Goals
2.1.5 Study Aim
2.2 Methodology
2.2.1 Research Approach
2.2.2 Research Site
2.2.3 Population and Sample Size
2.2.4 Household Survey and Data Collection
2.2.5 Data Analysis
2.2.6 Ethical Considerations
2.3 Results
2.3.1 Demographic and Socioeconomic Information
2.3.2 Knowledge of Climate Change
2.3.3 Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Sustainable Practices
2.4 Conclusion
References
3 The Concept of Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resilience in the Pacific
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Reconceptualizing Resilience
3.3 Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience of Pacific Communities: Policy and Legal Frameworks
3.4 Social Protection
3.5 Built Environment
3.6 Discussions and Final Thoughts
References
4 The Integration of Traditional Knowledge and Local Wisdom in Mitigating and Adapting Climate Change: Different Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples from Java and Bali Island
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Climate Change Risks for Indonesia
4.3 National Climate Change Mitigation
4.4 Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change
4.5 Climate Change Mitigation of Indigenous People
4.6 Benefit of Local Wisdom and Local People’s Participation in Mitigating Climate Change
4.7 Local Wisdom in Java
4.8 Local Wisdom in Bali
4.9 The Model of Local Wisdom Adoption in Climate Change Response
4.9.1 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Water and Land
5 Social-Environmental Perception of Artisanal Fishermen bout Climate Change, Its Impacts on Fishing: A Comparison Between Socio-Spatially Segregated Communities
5.1 Why Is It Important to Understand Socio-Environmental Perception?
5.2 Climate Change and Society
5.3 Where Are the Communities and How Does Socio-Spatial Segregation Occur?
5.4 What Was Noticed?
5.5 To Consider…
5.6 About Ecosystem Changes and Their Impacts
5.7 In Conclusion: Including Local Knowledge Can Contribute to Science and Society
References
6 Impact of Climate Change on the Endemic Medicinal Plant Species Inhabiting the World Heritage Site of Indian Sundarbans
6.1 Introduction
6.2  Indian Sundarbans: A hub of Medicinal Plant Diversity
6.3  Exploring the Medicinal Plant Diversity and People's Participation 
6.4 Variability in Respondent Analysis
6.5 Conclusion
7 The Paiter Suruí Indigenous People in Defence of Their Territory: The Case of The Suruí Forest Carbon Project (PCFS)—RONDONIA/BRAZIL
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Revisiting Concepts: Globalization and Nature, Climate Change, and Carbon Sequestration in Indigenous Territories
7.3 The Paiter Suruí and the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land
7.4 The Trajectory of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project—PCFS
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 Indigenous Method of Curing Pulmonary Disorders Using Mangrove Fruit by the Lodha Peoples
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Sunderbans and Mangrove Fruit Keora
8.3 Preparation of Jelly from S. Apetala Fruit as an alternative livelihood
8.4 Analysis of Biochemical Composition
8.5 Results
8.6 Discussion
8.7 Conclusion
References
9 Forests Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge. Reflecting Indigenous Ontologies in the Economics of Restoration
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Materials and Methods
9.3 Results and Discussion
9.4 International Policy
9.4.1 Unced
9.4.2 UNFCCC and Forests
9.4.3 Forest Declarations
9.4.4 Forest Protection Financing Outside the UNFCCC
9.4.5 World Bank and UN-REDD
9.5 Private Sector Carbon Markets
9.6 Carbon Trading Challenges
9.7 Top-Down Approaches
9.8 Local Governance Issues
9.9 Land: Rights vs Relationship
9.10 Financial and Carbon Focus
9.11 Bottom-Up Approaches
9.12 A First Nations Approach
9.13 Co-designing Forest Carbon Investment
9.14 Impact Investment
9.15 Land Capital Investors
9.16 The Role of Government
9.17 Risk and Safeguards
9.18 Impact Investment Safeguards
9.19 Conclusion
References
Part III Land Under Water
10 Indigenous/Endogenous Sea Peoples: Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Regeneration Prospects
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Jamaica
10.3 Panama and the Ngabe
10.4 Guna
10.5 Maya
10.6 Comcaac
10.7 Huilliche
10.8 Ahiarmiut
10.9 Nansemond
10.10 Gullah
10.11 Guana Cay, Bahamas
10.12 Barbuda and Saint Barthelemy
10.13 Gujarat
10.14 Maldives
10.15 Seychelles
10.16 Zanzibar and Tanzania
10.17 Indonesia: Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi, Ambon
10.18 Ati
10.19 Vanuatu
10.20 Hotsararie
10.21 Bikini Atoll
10.22 Conclusions: Extinction, Migration, Assimilation, or Regeneration?
10.23 Recommendations
References
Part IV Land, Culture, Health, and People
11 Regenerative Learning: Hearing Country and Music for Healing People, Place, and Planet
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Literature Review and Methodology
11.3 Kimberley Lived Experiences
11.4 Paradigm Transformation—Realities and Opportunities
11.5 Conclusion
References
Part V Climate Change Management
12 Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property and Sustainability
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Neem Tree, The Wonder Tree
12.3 The Sustainability of the Environment
12.4 Innovation and Its Incentives: The Methane Experience
12.5 Conclusion
References
13 Despite Repeated Warnings: A Multidisciplinary Approach of the Shortcoming of Numbers in Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
13.1 Introduction
13.2 What are Metrics, and What do they have to do with the Environment?
13.3 Metrics and Climate Change, An Old Contradiction
13.4 Setting the Scenario
13.5 Results of Conference of the Parties COP 27 for Taxonomy and Ecological Indicators
13.6 Keynes and Hickel, Tackling an Insatiable Society
13.7 Technologies and Taxonomy
13.8 Ocean Warming and Public Health
13.9 The Economy Side—Partial Metrics for a Global Interpretation
13.10 Conclusion
13.11 Endnotes For Introduction
References
14 Towards a Better Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanism to Protect Traditional Knowledge in India: A Platter in the Offering
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The ABS Mechanisms
14.3 CBD: The Popular Choice
14.4 ABS, TK, and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
14.5 ABS: Success Stories
14.6 Effectivity of the Existing Mechanism in India
14.7 The Proposed Mechanism
14.8 What to Do with the Money! Alternative or Ancestral Livelihood or Both
14.9 Conclusion: The Way Forward
References