FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: - Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada - by Janna Wale and Brett Huson

is Special Report argues that Indigenous Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and approaches to relationships to the land and water its Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and can indeed oer an alternative but more eective Damage (L&D) through the Sendai Framework approach to understanding and responding to on Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), the climate change and the corresponding risks. [...] assessments prioritize one segment of society, and In addition to the trauma, the land the, and the remain inaccessible, incomplete, and inadequate cultural genocide, Indigenous peoples and their for many groups and communities across the knowledges have largely been le out of building country. [...] their economic future and contributed to the erefore, a risk to the salmon through overshing biodiversity of both marine and land ora and or pollution is a risk to the Gitxsan. [...] In order to create practical and approach and understand resource management comprehensive risk assessments, we need to use and decisions and eectively how we understand a big-picture view of interactions, relationships, risk and risk assessment processes. [...] Many from the Western colonial perspective view cultural practices of Indigenous peoples as performative and only to preserve lore, when in fact (D) cultural practices and adaptive practices are sophisticated methods to teach and reinforce balance and respect for the land; they respond to environmental changes to take proactive measures to ensure the sustainability of resources.