Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : understanding climate change impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities. A global perspective from local studies

Part I. Impacts of climate change and other drivers of global change on local social-ecological systems

Introduction to part I. Impacts of climate and global change on local social-ecological systems : learning from indigenous and local knowledge

Correspondence between local and scientific knowledge of climate change: the case of Hutsuls, Northern Romanian Carpathians

Local observations of climate change and impacts on livelihoods in Kamchatka, Russia

Sargassum seaweed challenges from local to national level in the Caribbean : a policy cycle perspective

“The weather is more erratic; it changes faster…” local perceptions of climate change in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania

Network analysis of climate change impacts reported by local communities of Sierra Nevada, Spain

Climate and environmental change perceptions: a case from rural Sicily, Italy

Smallholders perceptions of climate change in a post-socialist Albania

Local perceptions of climate change in the context of socioeconomic and political changes in a High Andean community from the Argentine Puna

Settlement, way of life and worldviews: how socio-environmental changes impact and are interpreted by artisanal fishing communities in Portugal

A complex matrix. Reports of environmental change and its drivers by the Tsimane’, Bolivian Amazon

“Not like it used to be”: contending with the altered agricultural calendar in Andean Peru’s Colca Valley

The colonial roots of climate vulnerability. Analysing the case of the Mapuche-Pehuenche People in Southern Chile

Part II. Adapting to climate change impacts in the context of global change

Introduction to part II. Rooted wisdom: Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ adaptive responses to climate change

Agricultural adaptation to multiple stressors in a climate change context : a case study in south-eastern Senegal

Changing terrain : evidence of climate change impacts and adaptive responses of Dagbani Indigenous communities, northern Ghana

Climate change impacts on agriculture and barriers to adaptation technologies among rural farmers in Southwestern Nigeria

Climate change impacts on agriculture, adaptation and resilience : insights from local farmers in South-East Zimbabwe

Counteracting land abandonment : local adaptation strategies to climate change impacts of alpine farmers in Eastern Tyrol, Austria

Strengthening participatory governance to adapt and other sociocultural responses to climate change impacts among farming communities in Kerman, Iran

The role of culture in climate change adaptation : insights from two mountain regions in Kenya

Roads, riding stables, and highland barley : livelihood diversification as climate change adaptation among Tibetans in Shangri-la, China

Faith, reciprocity, and balance : Inner Mongolian Ovoo offering ritual and its contribution to climate change adaptation

Local indicators, adaptation actions, and resilience efforts for a warming climate in North Greenland

How can co-management support adaptation to climate change? The case of co-existing fisheries from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada

Climate change adaptation in Fiji : local adaptation strategies to enhance national policy