Nikan oti (the future): Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity in Two First Nations Communities

Climate Change Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 69-80

  Ermine, Willie ^a   Pittman, Jeremy ^a  

^a FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Capacity; Change; Climate change; Community; Elders; First Nations; Indigenous; Philosophical; Sociocultural

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018024486     PISSN: 16102002     EISSN: 16102010     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14776-0_5     Document Type: Chapter

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