Indigenous water and drought management in a changing world / edited by Miguel Sioui.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sioui, Miguel, editor.

Series:

Current directions in water scarcity research ; v. 4.

Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Management.

Water-supply.

Drought management.

Droughts.

Ethnoscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford, England ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Elsevier, [2022]

Summary:

Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World presents a series of global case studies that examine how different Indigenous groups are dealing with various water management challenges and finding creative and culturally specific ways of developing solutions to these challenges. With contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics, scientists, and water management experts, this volume provides an overview of key water management challenges specific to Indigenous peoples, proposes possible policy solutions both at the international and national levels, and outlines culturally relevant tools for assessing vulnerability and building capacity

Contents:

1. The need for indigenous knowledge-based environmental policy in a changing world / Miguel Sioui

2. Striving towards reconciliation through the co-creation of water research / Dawn Martin-Hill, Colin M. Gibson, Charles-François de Lannoy, Danielle Gendron, Kathryn Chen, Denise McQueen, Makasa Looking Horse, Clynt King, Hannah Grewal, Tariq A. Deen, Sawsan Makhdoom, Patricia Chow-Fraser, Emil Sekerinski, P. Ravi Selvaganapathy, M. Altaf Arain

3. Reasserting traditional knowledge across a fragmented governance landscape: the Mackenzie River basin / Alex Latta

4. Haudenosaunee women's water law: reclaiming the sacred / Dawn Martin-Hill, Beverly Jacobs, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Sarah Duignan, Rohini Patel, Stephanie Pangowish

5. "We had to jump over, but we're still here": Nimiipúu spatio-temporalities of water and fish in times of climate change / Teresa Cavazos Cohn, Sierra Higheagle, Kyle Powys Whyte, Kate Berry, Kristin Green, Marcie Carter

6. "The evolving relationship between Maya communities and subterranean waters in the Yucatan Peninsula" / Derek A. Smith, Miguel Sioui

7. Rights to water and water's rights: plural water governances in mining context of Colombia and Peru / Astrid Ulloa, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Diego Navarro

8. From the muddy banks of the Watu: the Krenak and the Rio Doce mining disaster in Brazil / Andréa Zhouri, Walison Vasconcelos Pascoal

9. "Guides of water": indigenous water justice and pastoral management beyond adaptation to climate change / Julian S. Yates

10. Contested waters, extractivisms and territories: indigenous people in Chile and the neoliberal crisis / Hugo Romero-Toledo, Katy Jenkins

11. Indigenous knowledge systems for the management of the Barotse Flood Plain in Zambia and its implications for policy and practice in the developing world / Everisto Mapedza, Tambudzai Rashirayi, Xueliang Cai, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Barbara van Koppen, Mukelabai Ndiyoi and Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu

12. Indigenous knowledge perspectives on water management and its challenges in South Africa / Bongani Ncube

13. Hydro-social cohesion in Iranian local communities / Majid Labbaf Khaneiki

14. Rapua nga tohu (seeking the signs)

indigenous knowledge informed climate adaptation / Harcourt Nikki, Awatere Shaun

15. Indigenous knowledge, mercury and a remote Russian indigenous river basin

Ponoi River / Tero Mustonen

16. Indigenous community engagement at Scotty Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada: experiences and lessons learned / William Quinton, Ramona Pearson, Miguel Sioui

17. Lessons learned and concluding reflections on indigenous relationships with water and Eatononha (Earth Mother) / Miguel Sioui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Indigenous water and drought management in a changing world.

ISBN:

0128245387

9780128245392