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Pipeline Dreams: People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Mark Nuttall
Number of pages: 223
ISBN number: 978-87-91563-86-7
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Canada, Canadá, Russia, Rusia, Alaska, Siberia, Inuit Canada, Canada Inuit
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico, North America, América del Norte
Release year: 2010
Release Month | Day: January
Interest in the Arctic as one of the world’s last energy frontiers is increasing. The indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North have long been involved in struggles to make sense of, adapt to, and negotiate the impacts and consequences of resource exploration and development but they have also been involved in struggles to gain some measure of control over development as well as to benefit fro...
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Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation

Publisher: RAIPON & CSIPN
Author: Prof. Vadim Turaev, Rodion Sulyandziga, Pavel Sulyandziga, Vladimir Bochamikov
Number of pages: 477
ISBN number: 978-905728-01-3
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: The North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation
Region publication is about: The North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation
Financially supported by: Indian Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and IWGIA
Release year: 2011
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Indigenous Issues 3-4/09: Editorial

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the situation of the millions of indigenous peoples who are nomadic pastoralists. Nomadic pastoralists have unique cultures and make unique and productive use of harsh environments. Nomadic pastoralists the world over are, however, the subject of an unusually large number of myths and misconceptions that have led to inadequate, often hostile development ...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/09: Tibet's Nomadic Pastoralists: Tradition, Transformation and Prospects

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
The Tibetan Plateau, known today as the Earth’s third pole,1 averages over 4,500 meters in elevation and covers some 2.5 million square kilometers in south-central Asia. The size of Western Europe, the region is bounded to the south and west by the Hindu-Kush Himalaya complex of mountains, to the north by the vast Taklamakan Desert, and to the east by lowland Han China. The region, which receive...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/09: Generating Wealth from Environmental Variability: the economics of pastoralism in East Africa's drylands

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Productivity in the face of environmental variability and resilience to periodic but unpredictable cycles of drought and flood are built into pastoral livelihoods, institutions and knowledge systems. Yet poverty, environmental degradation and conflict persist in many pastoral areas of Africa. This is, in large measure, a direct result of inappropriate policy and development interventions. Enduring...
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Introduction and Part I: Climate Change

Publication language: English
This book provides information material on REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries), one of the mitigation measures currently promoted for combating climate change, and its implications for indigenous peoples. It is intended primarily for indigenous peoples as a guide in understanding climate change, REDD and how they relate to the recognition and ...
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Part II: REDD

Publication language: English
If forests are destroyed or degraded, large amounts of gases that cause global warming are released into the atmosphere. The most important of these gases is carbon dioxide, or CO2, a gas that is present in high levels in trees, forests, animals and nature. When trees grow, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and bind it into themselves and their root systems. When trees die, the gas is released b...
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Part III: The UNDRIP and What Indigenous Communities Can Do

Publication language: English
You are an indigenous person. It is likely that you and your community have lived in the area where you are in for decades if not hundreds of years. It is important that you are aware of discussions and decisions on climate change, including REDD. It is important that you participate in discussions where the land you live and make your living is concerned. It is important that you have a voice, t...
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Carbon projects and programmes: Appendices

Publication language: English
If your community is approached to be part of a project or programme that will be funded by the carbon market, by carbon finance funds, or that will create carbon credits then it is important to try to get as much information as possible before entering into any agreement. This checklist is intended to provide a minimum list of questions that you should get answers to. You should also access the a...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/09: Editoral - REDD and Indigenous people

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Mr Masambe Nguya was standing outside his burning homestead when he was spotted by a police officer who poured petrol over him and pushed him towards the flames. Luckily, he stumbled and fell and managed to flee whereby he survived…. In early July, more than 200 Maasai homes were burnt down and 3,000 people from eight villages in Loliondo, Ngorongoro District in Tanzania, left homeless. Food s...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: REDD and Indigenous peoples' rights in Africa

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Over the last year and a half, over 30% of Africa’s 53 countries have expressed interest or are participating in the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) proposed climate change mitigation strategy. Fourteen countries are involved in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility while two are involved in the UN-REDD program. Others are enga...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: Indigenous peoples and forest management - before and after REDD: The case of Tanzania

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa, África
While donors and many governments in developing countries are joining hands in promoting the UN Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) initiative, representatives from international NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations (IPOs) have expressed concern about the possible effects of REDD on indigenous peoples’ livelihoods. In Tanzania, enormous amounts of money are...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: Tanzania: Indigenous peoples' recent engagement in the REDD process

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa, África
The Indigenous Peoples of Tanzania have recently started engaging in the REDD programme development in the country. This follows from a realization that Tanzania has embarked on developing a national REDD strategy with funding from the Government of Norway without involving indigenous peoples. It was also understood that there is already a task force in place that is charged with coordinating UN-R...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: The Indigenous voice in the REDD process in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Democratic Republic of Congo, La República Democrática del Congo
Region publication is about: Africa, África
The REDD process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was officially launched on 21 and 22 August 2009 in Kinshasa through a workshop that gathered together government officials, the private sector, researchers and civil society. This was a good opportunity to discuss some issues that will be vital for the success of REDD. Among these are the identification of the real drivers of deforestatio...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: Shifting the blame? Southeast Asia's Indigenous peoples and shifting cultivation in the age of climate change

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
In the name of forest conservation and development, colonial and post-colonial governments in Asia have for more than a century devised policies and laws seeking to eradicate shifting cultivation.1 Many of the arguments brought against this form of land use – that it is an economically inefficient and ecologically harmful practice – have been proven inaccurate or outright wrong.2 Notwithstandi...
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: Sinar Resmi Declaration

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Indonesia
Region publication is about: Asia
The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) held a national consultation of indigenous communities from 5-8 August 2009 on Climate Change and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This was followed by AMAN’s national strategic meeting.
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Indigenous Affairs 1/09: The Kalahan Forests and carbon: a Philippines case study

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Philippines, Filipinas
Region publication is about: Asia
In 1974 the Ikalahan people of Santa Fe in the northern Philippines finally, after three years of negotiations, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Government recognizing the control of the Ikalahan over about 15,000 hectares of their ancestral land in exchange for protecting the water supply for the users downstream. There was no precedent for such an agreement. There was n...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Editorial - IWGIA 40 years on

Publication language: English
At the 38th International Congress of Americanists, held in Stuttgart, Germany in 1968, a number of anthropologists presented alarming reports of atrocities being carried out against indigenous peoples in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Brazil. In a post-conference meeting just outside Copenhagen, in the home of Helge Kleivan, a Danish anthropologist, fellow anthropologists Milton R. Freeman, Lars P...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Being Indigenous in today's world

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Key note speech by Johnson Malih Ole Kaunga at IWGIA’s 40th anniversary celebration When I was asked to give a key-note address on this auspicious moment of IWGIA’s 40th anniversary, I found it a challenge for a number of reasons. First, I had only known IWGIA for about 10 years. Second, I am five years younger than IWGIA and, looking round the audience, I may well be the one with the least ...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: IWGIA's work in Africa and, particularly, in Kenya

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Kenya, Kenia
Region publication is about: Africa, África
IWGIA’s Africa program strategy was adopted in April 2004. Its thematic priorities are human rights, land rights, indigenous women’s rights, self-organization and empowerment. Geographically, IWGIA focuses on East Africa (mainly Kenya, Tanzania), Central Africa (mainly Rwanda, Burundi, Republic of Congo), and southern Africa (e.g. Botswana). Its key project partners are the Mainyoito Pastorali...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Asian Indigenousness: The case of India

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: India
Region publication is about: Asia
India voted in favour of the United Nations’ Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September 2007. So did the majority of the other Asian countries, with a few exceptions such as Bangladesh and Bhutan who abstained. How then should we understand this over-all support for the Declaration by Asian states? Is it to be regarded as a critical event that signals a new readiness for serious en...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Indigenous peoples in Asia - common experiences and issues

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
We are the indigenous peoples of Asia. We have lived in our territories alongside other peoples who in the course of history have come to dominate us. Our history has been questioned and our identity as indigenous peoples has been denied. As a result, our land, territories and resources have also been appropriated or made vulnerable. We, the indigenous peoples of Asia, draw our unity and solidarit...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Peruvian Amazon Indigenous organizations: Challenges and achievements

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Peru, Perú
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Organisation is a sine qua non for the existence of any society and, over the course of history, highly organised movements have emerged in the Peruvian Amazon to face up to invaders. Indigenous peoples’ organisations as we know them today, however, i.e., permanent structures with the overall aim of defending the rights of the people they represent, are a relatively recent phenomenon. In the cas...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: Protecting Indigenous peoples' rights to their natural resources - the case of Russia

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Russia, Rusia
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Of the 45 indigenous peoples in Russia with populations of fewer than 50,000, 40 live in the North, Siberia, and the Far East. These same areas are rich in natural resources, such as oil, gas and minerals, and they are the sites of large energy projects like pipelines and hydroelectric dams. Any industrial project taking place on indigenous peoples’ lands presents a threat and elicits concern am...
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Indigenous Affairs 3-4/08: IWGIA, IWGIA Moscow and Raipon

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Russia, Rusia
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
IWGIA’s collaboration with Russian indigenous peoples began following the foundation of RAIPON in 1990 at the III Congress of Numerically-Small Indigenous Peoples of Russia in Moscow. Three years previously, in 1987, an initiative on the part of Arctic scholars called “Anxious North” (Trevozhnyi Sever) had come into being. This was a small group of Moscow scholars working in the North who we...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08: Editorial

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Recent key regional and global scientific assessments (most notably, the Arctic Council’s Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment, and the national Canadian assessment of climate change) confirm that the Earth’s climate is changing in ways that may have irreversible impacts that will affect ecosystems, societies and economies on ...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08: Climate Change From an Indigenous Perspective: Key Issues and Challenges

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
In February 2008, the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) organised and held a two-day conference on “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change”, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference was considered as part of the preparations for IWGIA’s input to the 7th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues1 as well as the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhage...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08: The Threat Posed by Climate Change to pastoralists in Africa

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Desert ecosystems receive little rainfall, and are characterized by sparse vegetation and simple food webs. Around the desert edge and across many sub-tropical parts of the world are found semi-arid and sub-humid lands, which support unique species of plants and animals and a larger human population than deserts themselves are able to sustain. In parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, these pe...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08: Climate Change and the Warming Politics of Autonomy in Greenland

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Greenland, Groenlandia
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
The melting of Greenland’s massive inland ice sheet has become much-reported in the scientific literature as a potentially catastrophic example of the Arctic as a region experiencing unprecedented and rapid climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fourth global assessment concludes that airborne, satellite and seismic data indicate thinning around the periphery of...
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Indigenous Affairs 1-2/08: Climate Change and its Impact on Indigenous Peoples in Nepal Himalaya

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China to the north and India to the south, east and west. Nepal is also known as the country of Mount Everest ‘Sagarmatha jhomo-longma’, the highest peak in the world. The Himalaya mountain range runs across Nepal’s northern and western parts, and eight of the world...
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