TY - JOUR TI - Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship AU - Johnson, Danielle Emma AU - Parsons, Meg AU - Fisher, Karen T2 - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space AB - Although Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and concerns have not always been accommodated in climate change adaptation research and practice, a burgeoning literature is helping to reframe and decolonise climate adaptation in line with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. In this review, we bring together climate adaptation, decolonising and intersectional scholarship to chart the progress that has been made in better analysing and responding to climate change in Indigenous contexts. We identify a wealth of literature helping to decolonise climate adaptation scholarship and praxis by attending to colonial and neo-colonial injustices implicated in Indigenous peoples’ climate vulnerability, taking seriously Indigenous peoples’ relational ontologies, and promoting adaptation that draws on Indigenous capacities and aspirations for self-determination and cultural continuity. Despite calls to interrogate heterogenous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities, the decolonising climate and adaptation scholarship has made limited advances in this area. We examine the small body of research that takes an intersectional approach to climate adaptation and explores how the multiple subjectivities and identities that Indigenous peoples occupy produce unique vulnerabilities, capacities and encounters with adaptation policy. We suggest the field might be expanded by drawing on related studies from Indigenous development, natural resource management, conservation, feminism, health and food sovereignty. Greater engagement with intersectionality works to drive innovation in decolonising climate adaptation scholarship and practice. It can mitigate the risk of maladaptation, avoid entrenchment of inequitable power dynamics, and ensures that even the most marginal groups within Indigenous communities benefit from adaptation policies and programmes. DA - 2022/09// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1177/25148486211022450 DP - journals.sagepub.com (Atypon) VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 1541 EP - 1578 SN - 2514-8486 ST - Indigenous climate change adaptation UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486211022450 Y2 - 2023/05/09/00:08:36 KW - Urban planning ER - TY - JOUR TI - Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds: The role of Indigenous and local knowledge in Pentecost Island, Vanuatu AU - Rarai, Allan AU - Parsons, Meg AU - Nursey-Bray, Melissa AU - Crease, Roa T2 - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space AB - Scholars, practitioners, and decision-makers are increasingly recognising that Indigenous knowledge can play a significant role in facilitating adaptation to climate change. Yet, adaptation theorising and practises remain overwhelmingly situated within Euromodern ontologies, and there remains limited space, at present, for plural ontologies or alternative ways of being and knowing. In this paper, and using the Pacific as our case study, we present an argument for the inclusion of multiple ontologies within adaptation policymaking. Pacific adaptation policies and interventions frequently privilege Western scientific knowledge and focus on addressing individual climate risks through technical fixes directed by foreign experts and funding agencies. They are also rooted in a policy architecture that is an artefact of colonisation in the region. Despite these obstacles, Pacific Islander responses to climate change are dynamic, and inclusive of the multiple and competing ontologies they work within, offering insights into how Euromodern and Pacific islander world views could coalesce to builds adaptive capacity and consolidate community resilience into the future. Highlights • Indigenous Knowledge plays a critical role in enabling resilience and facilitating climate change adaptation in some parts of Vanuatu • Ni-Vanuatu people employ dynamic responses to climate risks incorporating multiple knowledge systems and practises • Co-existence of different knowledge systems provide insights into factors that enable adaptive capacity and consolidate community resilience • Diverse worldviews, knowledge systems and practises with Pacific Island cultures highlights the importance of thinking about ontological pluralism within adaptation • Climate adaptation is principally founded on Western ontologies, but there is a need consider non-Western ontologies and epistemologies. DA - 2022/12// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1177/25148486211047739 DP - journals.sagepub.com (Atypon) VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 2240 EP - 2282 SN - 2514-8486 ST - Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486211047739 Y2 - 2023/05/09/00:08:40 KW - Urban planning KW - climate change adaptation KW - indigenous knowledge KW - island cultures KW - ontological pluralism KW - resilience KW - worldviews ER -