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#EarthDay2021 BioOne Collection

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Our paper “Adapting Forest Management to Climate Change: Experiences of the Nisga’a People” has been selected to be featured in the Open Access BioOne EarthDay2021 Collection. All articles are freely available through June 30, 2021!

Many thanks to our research collaborators in the Nass Valley and the @WWN_Institute, especially to Dr. Deanna Nyce (@NyceDeanna), my friend Irene Squires (@Hagwilook), and my loving wife Estefania Milla-Moreno (@ea_mimo) for all their support during fieldwork and afterward.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Non-Indigenous forest management was disastrous for the ecology of the Nass Valley area.

• Non-Indigenous forest management showed no recognition of, or respect for, Nisga’a traditional approaches to land management.

• Traditional Nisga’a resource management is a resilience-oriented management approach.

• Future approaches need to be based on Indigenous people’s knowledge and rights while at the same time utilizing valuable knowledge from non-Indigenous sources.

• An inclusive management approach focused on restoring ecosystem function can enhance Nisga’a forest resilience.

Sharing research results with collaborators

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Getting back to collaborators, a vital part of collaborative research. Not only to comply with proposed research approach and to get feedback on the work that has been done but also as an act of reciprocity and respect towards research collaborators. Allowing them a safe space to freely discuss, comment and raise their voices, if they want to.

On May 3rd I went back to the Indigenous and Intercultural Studies Institute (IIEI) at the University of La Frontera, Chile. The Institute not only hosted me for three months during 2016 while I was doing fieldwork in the Araucania Region but also it has been a very important collaborator during the whole research process.

The objective of this visit was to present and discuss the results of the research with a broad audience. In doing so, I was also lucky to have an interdisciplinary panel to comment on my presentation. The panel was formed by Ximena Cuadra, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University du Québec a Montréal, Alberto Kuramil, Longko of Lof Radalko in Curacautin, and Gonzalo Bustamante, Adjoint Professor at Univerity of La Frontera.

This is the press note the IIEI released about the presentation (in Spanish): http://estudiosindigenas.ufro.cl/index.php/noticias/33-estudio-analiza-vinculacion-de-la-espiritualidad-mapuche-con-el-cambio-climatico

I recorded the presentation, the panel discussion and the QA section, and edited this video (all in Spanish):

This is only one of the presentations I had while in Chile three weeks ago. The other presentation was with the Mapuche communities I collaborated with. I am still working on the video of that presentation and will post it soon.

Research selection on Forest Policy and Climate Change

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The Paris Climate Change Conference is a focus point for policy makers and researchers from all over the world, working on agreements based on the best current science there is. For those interested in specific research in this field in Forestry, Forest Policy and Economics has made an article selection with 15 relevant articles.

This article selection is now freely available for a period of three months. We trust this selection will provide you with valuable insights into this complicated and important area of research.

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