Climate change adaptation through decolonizing stewardship

Those best situated to be the stewards of Canada's lands and waters are the Indigenous Peoples who have been doing this for 10,000 years or longer.

Firefighters from Australia flew in to help put out the forest fires in Alberta last summer. The unsung hero of climate change adaptation is stewardship of Canada's lands and waters, writes Kristian Dubrawski, assistant professor and Canada research chair in geography and in civil engineering at the University of Victoria.Photograph courtesy of New South Wales Rural Fire Service

Opinion

BY KRISTIAN DUBRAWSKI

June 10, 2024

Every year, climate change seems to hit closer and closer to home. Wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves—these are hardly newsworthy anymore. Large carbon mitigation projects still make the news: hydrogen plants, carbon capture, EV manufacturing, etc., but frankly, these ...

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