Strategies for Strengthening Alaska Native Village Roles in Natural Resource Management
Water Policy Consulting, LLC; Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP); and tribal environmental and climate change professionals throughout the country are offering the Winter 2015-2016 Policy and Climate Adaptation Mitigation and Planning for Alaska Natives webinars series. The series will demonstrate how Native Villages and other communities in Alaska can apply state, federal and tribal policies to address climate change impacts on water and subsistence resources through water resource management and protection, land and water rights, sovereignty and other resiliency and mitigation strategies.
The first presentation of the series, scheduled for Tuesday, 5 January 2015 at 10:00 a.m. AKST, is entitled "Strategies for Strengthening Alaska Native Village Roles in Natural Resource Management." The presenter is Barrett Ristroph, Pacific Policy Director at Pacific Environment and PhD student at the University of Hawaii.
Unlike tribes in other U.S. jurisdictions, Alaska's tribes do not have sovereignty (or direct ownership in many cases) over their traditional lands and the natural resources on which they depend for their nutritional and cultural survival. In place of treaties ensuring hunting and fishing rights, they are subject to complex hunting laws that limit their ability to adapt hunting practices to changes in species distribution. Many Alaska Native Villages are grappling with the combined impacts of climate and social change. This webinar will identify and evaluates a range of tools that could help Alaska Native Villages increase their influence over wildlife and land management decisions, including following international bodies.
To register for the webinar, please go to:
http://accap.adobeconnect.com/nrm/event/event_info.html
For questions, please contact
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu