Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

  Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002166/216613E.pdf

This report provides an overview of the published scientific literature (primarily peer-reviewed, but also grey) relating to the contribution of traditional/indigenous knowledge to our understanding of global climate change: observations, impacts and opportunities for adaptation. It focuses in particular on post-AR4 literature and also includes inputs from the international expert meeting ‘Indigenous Peoples, Marginalized Populations and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge’, held from 19–21 July 2011 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Language(s): English

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