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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change Lyn Carter

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change By Lyn Carter

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change by Lyn Carter


Summary

Situating Maori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we live in our world (our world views), and in turn, the ways in which humans adapt to climate change.

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change Summary

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Aotearoa/New Zealand by Lyn Carter

Situating Maori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we live in our world (our world views), and in turn, the ways in which humans adapt to climate change. As an industrialized nation, Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ) has responsibilities and obligations to other Pacific dwellers, including its indigenous populations. In this context, this book seeks to discuss how A/NZ can benefit from the wider Pacific strategies already in place; how to meet its global obligations to reducing GHG; and how A/NZ can utilize MEK to achieve substantial inroads into adaptation strategies and practices. In all respects, Maori tribal groups here are well-placed to be key players in adaptation strategies, policies, and practices that are referenced through Maori/Iwi traditional knowledge.

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change Reviews

Readers from social and cultural anthropology, indigenous studies and other related disciplines interested in the topic of climate change will find Lyn Carters study an interesting read. The combination of institutional analysis and information from case studies provides interesting insights to both scholars, indigenous people, and policymakers in New Zealand, Oceania, and beyond. (Lena Borlinghaus, Anthropological Notebooks, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)

About Lyn Carter

Lyn Carter isSenior Lecturerin Te Tumu (the School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies) at the University of Otago, New Zealand.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Setting the Scene.-Chapter 3. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change.-Chapter 4. Aotearoa/New Zealand and Land-use Change.-Chapter 5. New Zealand and the Emissions Trading Scheme.-Chapter 6. Aotearoa/New Zealand Adaptation Strategies and Practices.-Chapter 7. Where to From Here?Learning from our Pacific Neighbours.

Additional information

NPB9783319964386
9783319964386
3319964380
Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Aotearoa/New Zealand by Lyn Carter
New
Hardback
Birkhauser Verlag AG
2018-08-31
106
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