Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives Version 1.0
Dates
Publication Date
2014-09
Summary
This document, Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives, was originally prepared and submitted to the Department of Interior Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science (ACCCNRS) in May 2014. An informal tribal workgroup developed this document, and the ACCCNRS tribal representatives, Gary Morishima, Quinault Management Center, and Ann Marie Chischilly, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, coordinated the review and comment process. The collective work and expertise shared through these guidelines builds through a number of initiatives that have been exploring issues related to traditional knowledges and climate change in recent years. These initiatives include [...]
Summary
This document, Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives, was originally prepared and submitted to the Department of Interior Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science (ACCCNRS) in May 2014. An informal tribal workgroup developed this document, and the ACCCNRS tribal representatives, Gary Morishima, Quinault Management Center, and Ann Marie Chischilly, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, coordinated the review and comment process. The collective work and expertise shared through these guidelines builds through a number of initiatives that have been exploring issues related to traditional knowledges and climate change in recent years. These initiatives include the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group (formerly the American Indian Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group), a grant with the Tulalip Tribes from the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, support from the USDA Forest Service Coordinated Climate Change Research Strategy, including the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station and Rocky Mountain Research Station, and sessions during the 2013 National Adaptation Forum.
These guidelines are intended to meet multiple goals. First and foremost, these guidelines are intended to be provisional. They are intended to:
1) Increase understanding of the role of and protections for TKs in climate initiatives:
Provide foundational information to federal agencies on intergovernmental relationships and science when engaging tribal and indigenous peoples in federal climate change initiatives; and
Provide foundational information on the role of traditional knowledges (TKs) in federal climate change initiatives.
2) Provide provisional guidance to those engaging in efforts that encompass TKs:
Establish principles of engagement with tribes on issues related to TKs; and
Establish processes and protocols that govern the sharing and protection of TKs.
3) Increase mutually beneficial and ethical interactions between tribes and non-tribal partners:
Examine the significance of TKs in relation to climate change and the potential risks to indigenous peoples in the U.S. for sharing TKs in federal and other non-indigenous climate change initiatives;
Guide the motivation, character, and intent of collaborative climate initiatives undertaken between government agencies, research scientists, tribal communities and TKs holders;
Provide specific measures that federal agencies, researchers, tribes, and TKs holders can follow in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing climate change initiatives involving TKs; and,
Promote the use of TKs in climate change initiatives in such a way as to benefit indigenous peoples and promote greater collaboration between federal agencies and tribes and increase tribal representation in federal climate initiatives.
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