Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems
Zakari, Ibrahim S.
- 1ICREA
- 2Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 3CIRAD
- 4BOKU University
- 5University of Miami
- 6Wageningen University & Research
- 7Obafemi Awolowo University
- 8Mamiraua Inst Sustainable Dev
- 9HUN-REN
- 10Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP)
- 11Inst Jurua
- 12Ctr Integrated Disaster Risk Management CIGIDEN
- 13University of South Africa
- 14University of Helsinki
- 15University of Dar es Salaam
- 16Universidad de Chile
- 17University of York - UK
- 18Universite de Toulouse
- 19Dickinson College
- 20Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
- 21Oregon State University
- 22CDID
- 23Franklin & Marshall College
- 24Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- 25Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
- 26Nordregio
- 27University of Wisconsin System
- 28Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
- 29Universite Ibn Khaldoun Tiaret
- 30Ctr Sustainable Dev & Environm Cenesta
- 31Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
- 32University of Massachusetts System
- 33University of Northern Iowa
- 34Global Inst Interdisciplinary Studies
- 35Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) - India
- 36Univ Fiji
- 37National University of Mongolia
- 38Peking University
- 39Abdou Moumouni University
Journal
Communications Earth and Environment
ISSN
2662-4435
Open Access
gold
Volume
5
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. Indigenous Peoples and local communities across climate zones and nature dependent livelihoods experience climate change impacts that affect multiple parts of their socioeconomic system, suggests an analysis of 1,661 site-agreed climate change impact reports from 48 locations.
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