Environmental for Food Justice

Natural Resource Management . Bunky Echo-Hawk (2006). Credit: Palgrave Journals      Part 1 | Toward an Arid-Sensible Way of Life INDIGENOUS RIGHT LIVELIHOODS and CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Note on the Series: I am posting a four-part analysis and discussion of environmental justice and climate change beginning with today’s essay on the cultural implications of climate change. Today’s post focuses on the importance of protecting arid-sensible ways of life as a source of understanding of adaptation to climate change. I highlight the cases of the rainwater harvesting and community irrigation canal systems of India and the U.S. Southwest. The goal of the series is to illuminate the connections between indigenous land- and water-based cultures and the broadening climate justice movements. I am especially concerned in this series with exploring issues that connect food sovereignty, cultural autonomy, and climate change. This includes a detailed and critical deconstruction of t...