James Ford

Biographic Data

ID3605661
NAMEJames Ford
GIVEN NAMESJames
FAMILY NAMEFord
SIGNATUREFORD J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS46
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1913
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Transformative Pathways for Strengthening Climate‐Resilient Health Systems Among Indigenous Communities

    Open AccessChrishma D Perera, Eranga K Galappaththi et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2026References: 5

    Most climate‐resilience health interventions are designed at the global level, with minimal attention to Indigenous communities' needs. The lack of consideration can lead to unintended harm and exacerbate health risks. This study aims to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely adopting global climate‐resilient health approaches within Indigenous contexts, ensuring the aims of the Susta…

  • Fiji’s policy response to Covid-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices

    Open AccessKerrie Pickering, Eranga K Galappaththi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2024References: 9

  • Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance

    Open AccessRosario Carmona, Graeme Reed et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2024Cited by: 2References: 41

    Although the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to climate governance by the international community has gradually increased, a rights-based approach in national climate action is still largely absent. This article analyses the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. We conducted a content analysis of all NDCs submitted between 2016 and May 2022. Through a fi…

  • International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity

    Open AccessAnuszka Mosurska, Aaron Clark‐ginsberg et al.ARTICLEDisasters2023Cited by: 1References: 117

    Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. The humanitarian sector communicates stories widely, encompassing representations of peoples and events. Such communications have been critiqued for misrepresenting and/or silencing the root causes of disasters and crises, depoliticising them. What has not been researched is how such communications represent disasters and crises in Indigenous settings. This is important because proce…

  • “Just because you have a land claim, that doesn’t mean everything’s going to fall in place”

    Open AccessJamie Snook, Ashlee Cunsolo et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2022

    Commercial fishing supports coastal communities around the world and fishing livelihoods are often interwoven into local societies, including culture, identity, knowledges, and economies, particularly for many Indigenous Peoples globally. Through a case study with co-management board members in Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, we explore how access to commercial fisheries is a determinant of Inuit well-being. Interviews with fisheries co-managers w…

  • What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru

    Open AccessCamila Flórez Bossio, Oliver T Coomes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Cited by: 1References: 23

  • Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga-Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji

    Open AccessT D Pearce, Lui Manuel et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2021

  • Kaniuwatewara (when we get sick)

    Open AccessAlejandra Bussalleu, Pedro Pizango et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    These findings emphasize the importance of acknowledging and considering Indigenous culture and beliefs, as well as the existing traditional medical system, within the professional healthcare system. Cultural competency training and formally integrating traditional healthcare into the official healthcare system are promising strategies to increase healthcare service use, and therefore health outcomes

  • Nuya kankantawa (we are feeling healthy)

    Open AccessAlejandra Bussalleu, Nia King et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 3References: 35

  • “Even if it doesn't come, you should be prepared”

    Open AccessT D Pearce, Tristan Pearce et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2020

  • Understanding Socio-Ecological Vulnerability to Climatic Change through a Trajectories of Change Approach

    Open AccessAvital Li, James D Ford et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2019

    This paper identifies and characterizes vulnerability to climatic change in the Ngöbe-Buglé Indigenous community of Playitas, Panama, using a “trajectories of change” approach. Playitas is a community composed of swidden forest farmers that is undergoing rapid rates of change as a result of demographic shifts, regional development, and climate change. Working in collaboration with a community organization, various methods were used to identify an…

  • Adaptation to Climate Change in an Interior Pacific Island Village

    Open AccessRenee Currenti, T D Pearce et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2019

  • Community-based monitoring of Indigenous food security in a changing climate

    Open AccessSteven Lâm, Warren Dodd et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Climate change is expected to exacerbate existing food security challenges, especially in Indigenous communities worldwide. Community-based monitoring (CBM) is considered a promising strategy to improve monitoring of, and local adaptation to climatic and environmental change. Yet, it is unclear how this approach can be applied in food security or Indigenous contexts. The objectives of this paper are to: (1) review and synthesize the published lit…

  • Promoting Inuit health through a participatory whiteboard video

    Open AccessRigolet Inuit Community Government, M Saini et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2019Cited by: 2References: 25

  • An analysis of the nutrition status of neighboring Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Kanungu District, southwestern Uganda

    Open AccessJustin Sauer, Jeffery Sauer et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 2References: 39

  • How does the media portray drinking water security in Indigenous communities in Canada? An analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage from 2000-2015

    Open AccessSteven Lâm, Ashlee Cunsolo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Limited media coverage could undermine public and stakeholder interest in addressing water-related issues faced by many Canadian Indigenous communities

  • Seasonal variation of food security among the Batwa of Kanungu, Uganda

    Open AccessKaitlin Patterson, Lea Berrang-Ford et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective Climate change is projected to increase the burden of food insecurity (FI) globally, particularly among populations that depend on subsistence agriculture. The impacts of climate change will have disproportionate effects on populations with higher existing vulnerability. Indigenous people consistently experience higher levels of FI than their non-Indigenous counterparts and are more likely to be dependent upon land-based resources. The …

  • Community-level climate change vulnerability research

    Open AccessGary Mcdowell, Graham Mcdowell et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    This study systematically identifies, characterizes, and critically evaluates community-level climate change vulnerability assessments published over the last 25 years ( n = 274). We find that while the field has advanced considerably in terms of conceptual framing and methodological approaches, key shortcomings remain in how vulnerability is being studied at the community-level. We argue that vulnerability research needs to more critically engag…

  • Inuit Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Subsistence Hunting and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic

    Open AccessT D Pearce, Tristan Pearce et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2015

    This paper examines the role of Inuit traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic. It focuses on Inuit relationships with the Arctic environment, including hunting knowledge and land skills, and examines their roles in adaptation to biophysical changes that affect subsistence hunting. In several instances, TEK underpins competency in subsistence and adaptations to changing conditions, which includ…

  • Climate-sensitive health priorities in Nunatsiavut, Canada

    Open AccessIHACC Research Team, Sherilee L Harper et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    The results highlight several climate-sensitive health priorities that are specific to the Nunatsiavut region, and suggest approaching health research and adaptation planning from an EcoHealth perspective

  • Anomalous climatic conditions during winter 2010–2011 and vulnerability of the traditional Inuit food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut

    Open AccessSara Statham, James D Ford et al.ARTICLEPolar Record2015References: 74

    This study examines how climatic extremes during winter 2010–2011 affected the traditional food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut. This winter was anomalous throughout the Canadian Arctic, and manifested itself locally by warmer temperatures and decreased ice coverage. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with hunters (n = 25), a fixed question survey with public housing residents (n = 100), as well as analysis of remotely sensed sea-ice charts and temperat…

  • Lived experience of acute gastrointestinal illness in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut

    Open AccessSherilee L Harper, Victoria L Edge et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Cited by: 2References: 80

  • What we learned from the Dust Bowl

    Open AccessRobert Mcleman, Robert A McLeman et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2014Cited by: 8References: 64

    This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the Dust Bowl era or the Dirty Thirties. Recent events, including the 2008 financial crisis, severe droughts in the US corn belt, and the release of a popular documentary film, have spawned a resurgence in public interest in the Dust Bowl. Events of the Dust Bowl era have also pr…

  • Should the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognize climate migrants

    Open AccessCamilla Gibbs, Christine Gibb et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Climate change is expected to increase migration flows, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations. These ‘climate migrants’ do not have any official protection under international law, which has implications for the human security of migrants. This work argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can and should recognize climate migrants, and is the most relevant international framework…

  • The characteristics and experience of community food program users in arctic Canada

    Open AccessJames D Ford, James Ford et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    The inability of users to obtain sufficient food must be understood in the context of socio-economic transformations that have affected Inuit society over the last half century as former semi-nomadic hunting groups were resettled into permanent settlements. The resulting livelihood changes profoundly affected how food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed, and the socio-cultural relationships surrounding such activities. Consequences …