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Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation

A global evidence map of academic literature

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ID15547701
AutoresJan Petzold (0000-0003-0508-3362, Universität Hamburg, autor de correspondencia), Nadine Andrews (0000-0002-0814-2092, Lancaster University), James D Ford (0000-0002-2066-3456, University of Leeds), Christopher Hedemann (0000-0003-2896-2175, Universität Hamburg), Julio C Postigo (0000-0003-0272-8348, Indiana University Bloomington)
Año2020
Volumen15
Número11
Páginas113007-113007
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Research Letters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326
EditorialIOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1088/1748-9326/abb330
OpenAlexW3097880516
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas75
Referencias citadas61

There is emerging evidence of the important role of indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation. The necessity to consider different knowledge systems in climate change research has been established in the fifth assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, gaps in author expertise and inconsistent assessment by the IPCC lead to a regionally heterogeneous and thematically generic coverage of the topic. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed academic literature to support better integration of the existing and emerging research on indigenous knowledge in IPCC assessments. The research question underpinning this scoping review is: How is evidence of indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation geographically and thematically distributed in the peer-reviewed academic literature? As the first systematic global evidence map of indigenous knowledge in the climate adaptation literature, the study provides an overview of the evidence of indigenous knowledge for adaptation across regions and categorises relevant concepts related to indigenous knowledge and their contexts in the climate change literature across disciplines. The results show knowledge clusters around tropical rural areas, subtropics, drylands, and adaptation through planning and practice and behavioural measures. Knowledge gaps include research in northern and central Africa, northern Asia, South America, Australia, urban areas, and adaptation through capacity building, as well as institutional and psychological adaptation. This review supports the assessment of indigenous knowledge in the IPCC AR6 and also provides a basis for follow-up research, e.g. bibliometric analysis, primary research of underrepresented regions, and review of grey literature

Adaptation (eye · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Grey literature · Indigenous · MEDLINE · Political science · Systematic review · Traditional knowledge · Underpinning · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Climate variability and models · Engineering · Environmental Science · Psychology · Ecology

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Intervalo de citas2021 - 2026 (6)
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