Conceptualizing Climate Justice In Kivalina

• Main Author: Knodel, Marissa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons 2014
• Subjects: Climate; Change; Alaska; Culture; Adapt; Adaptation; Environment; Environmental; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Comparative and Foreign Law; Environmental Law; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; International Law; International Trade Law; Jurisdiction; Land Use Law; Law; Law and Race; Natural Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil; Gas; and Mineral Law; Barrier Island; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol37/iss4/4; https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2243&context=sulr

Due to climate change, indigenous communities in Alaska are forced to develop in ways that adversely affect their livelihoods and culture. For example, decreases in sea ice, increases in the frequency of sea storms, and melting permafrost have so accelerated the erosion of one barrier island that an...