"It's so different today": Climate change and indigenous lifeways in British Columbia, Canada

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-190

  Turner, Nancy J ^a   Clifton, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Gitga'at Nation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; British Columbia; Climate change; Indigenous Peoples; Resilience; Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349283502     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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