Advance guard: climate change impacts, adaptation, mitigation and indigenous peoples, a compendium of case studies

This compendium presents a wide-ranging overview of more then 400 projects, case studies and research activities specifically related to climate change and indigenous peoples. It provides a sketch of the climate and environmental changes, local observations and impacts being felt by communities in different regions, and outlines various adaptation and mitigation strategies that are currently being implemented by indigenous peoples - the world's "advance guard" of climate change - as they use their traditional knowledge and survival skills to trial adaptive responses to change.