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Symposium: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

Thursday and Friday, 12-13 April 2007
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford


Thursday 12th April

TimeSpeakerTitlePodcastPowerpoint slides
9:05 Prof. Jan Salick Introduction Listen to podcastDownload slides
9:15 Prof. Diana Liverman Climate change policy Listen to podcastSlides currently unavailable
9:45 Prof. John Birks Climate change in the Holocene Listen to podcastDownload slides
9:15 Dr. Dave Frame Climate change models Listen to podcastDownload slides
11:15 Dr. Pablo Eyzagluirre Traditional knowledge and the use of biological diversity in mitigating and coping with natural disaster Listen to podcastDownload slides
11.45 Prof Georg Grabherr Alpine biodiversity and climate change Listen to podcastSlides currently unavailable
12:15 Anja Christanell Austrian farmers and climate change Listen to podcastDownload slides
2:00 Prof. Jan Salick Tibetan alpine ethnobotany and climate change Listen to podcastDownload slides
2:30 Dr. Anja Byg Mountains, snow and spirits - perceptions and impacts of climate change in Tibetan villages Listen to podcastDownload slides
4:00 Associate Prof. Will McClatchey Enthoecological insights from people living on the margin Listen to podcastDownload slides
4:30 Dr. Rajindra Puri Can ethnoecological knowledge be used to adapt to climate change or even mitigate it? Some evidence from Penan and Kenyah responses to El Nino droughts in East Kalimantan Listen to podcastDownload Slides

Friday 13th April

TimeSpeakerTitlePodcastPowerpoint slides
9:00 Prof. Paul Minnis Climate change and humanity in the ancient North American southwest Listen to podcast Download slides
9:30 Dr. Richard Washington An overview of climate change in Africa Listen to podcastSlides currently unavailable
9.45 Susannah Sallu Climate change and people in the Kalahari Listen to podcastDownload slides
10:00 Lars Otto Naess Adaptation to climate change: What role of local knowledge? Listen to podcastDownload slides
11:00 Dr. Yadvinder Malhi Climate change, Amazonian forests and the role of indigenous peoples Listen to podcastSlides currently unavailable
11:30 Dr. Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez Climatic change, demographic shifts, land-use conversion, and fire in the peruvian Amazon Listen to podcastDownload slides
12:00 Dr. Laura Rival The adaptability and resilience of native Amazonian farming systems Listen to podcastDownload slides
1:30 Prof. Nancy Turner It's so different today: Climate change and indigenous lifeways in British Columbia, Canada Listen to podcastDownload slides
2:00 Dr. Pam Berry Climate challenges for biodiversity Listen to podcastDownload slides
2:30 Dr. Anna Lawrence The first cuckoo in winter: citizen science and climate change Listen to podcastDownload slides
3:30 Mirjam Macchi Understanding the impacts of climate change on cultural and biological diversity Podcast will be available shortlyDownload slides
4:00 Prof. Jan Salick Discussion of future approaches in ethnoecology and climate change Listen to podcastSlides currently unavailable